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Article · Nela Dunato
How I paint skin tones in acrylic + Free printable PDF mixing guide
By Nela Dunato
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2013
Free printable PDF mixing guide
About this lesson
An illustrator's six-stage walkthrough of painting skin in many transparent acrylic layers, from sketch to final glaze. It gives her mixing recipes from a six-tube palette and shows where she places shadows and highlights so the skin looks luminous.
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