Article · How To Mosaic Blog
Skin Tones and Mosaic Portraits
By Joe Moorman
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2019
About this lesson
Argues against picking one idealized skin-color tessera for mosaic portraits, showing through Suzanne Coverett Earls's work how reading the highlights and shadows in a reference photo and mixing several colors, including stained glass, renders a face more convincingly.
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