The Color of Flesh on Grey Paper Colored Pencil Realistic Portrait Drawing Tutorial

BMDPortraits shares another realtime colored pencil drawing tutorial focusing on realistic skin Tone. On this drawing tutorial i begin by sharing with you my thought on picking the right combination of colored pencil shades to combine and create realistic skin tone based on a particular reference photo. Because i can see that a lot of you find it very hard picking out the correct colors to layer and blend together and produce realistic skin tones that are close to the reference photo. Seasoned artists have different take on this, however i am just sharing my own process based on experience as a realistic portrait artist. There are millions of portrait artists around the world and i want to reach as many as possible with this colored pencil drawing tutorial especially beginners and struggling portrait artists. This colored pencil portrait is going to drawn using Prismacolor Premier and Faber Castell Polychromos on Strathmore Mixed Media Toned Gray Paper. PART 1 TUTORIAL: