Painter and Photoshop Basic Skin Palettes

Since I re-created my website, people had been asking where my skin palettes are. So, I’ve decided to make them available again here.

Painter Skin Palette

In this zip file, you will find four basic skin palettes: one for light skin, medium tone skin, medium to dark, and the other one for dark skin tones.

Download: Painter_Skin_Palette.zip

Photoshop Basic Skin Palette

In this zip file, you will find a basic skin tone palette and its corresponding grayscale equivalent.

Download: Photoshop_Skin_Palette_Basic.zip

Don’t forget to leave your comments below about these palettes.

Enjoy!

Using a Computer Graphics Tablet with Corel Painter

One of the most essential tools to use when working with Corel Painter is something that every digital artist should have. And this is the computer graphics tablet. The tablet is used as a computer input device so that hand drawn images can appear on the computer. This is useful for Corel Painter and other graphics applications, but there are a few things to consider about a tablet.

The type of tablet should be considered when looking for something to use with Corel Painter. There are both passive and active kinds of tablets. A passive tablet is one in which horizontal and vertical wires in the tablet work to transmit and receive the data the stylus pen transmits to it.  LC circuits in the pen are used to help with getting the data to be read. This means that the pen will have to be charged so that the tablet will be able to read it.

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The Importance of Reference Photos in Portrait Painting

No matter how many portraits for painting you are going to be using for a particular subject, you will need to make sure that you have enough perspective for your painting. Having reference photos in portrait painting is important, and you should take into consideration a few things for your photos.

First, you will need to have photos that are especially up to date and are all from around the same time. Over time people will grow up and as they get older they can have more effects on their faces. No one is perfect, but it is important to have plenty of photos from the same time period so that you will be able to have at least a good amount of accuracy in your painting.

Having multiple angles for your reference photos is important too. The portraits for painting that you will be using should be able to give you a good amount of perspective involving the figure that you will be working on. This includes the ability to help with figuring out how different parts of the face or body will look from different angles. By having this it will be better to get an idea with how to design the portrait you are working on.

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