 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're gonna talk about painting red colored skin like a squig It can often be challenging. How do you highlight it? How do you shade it? Well, don't worry. We're gonna get into all of that and I'm gonna show you how with just a few simple colors You can make really dynamic eye catching red colored skin that pops. So Here we go. Let's get into it The strict techno man sir that is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style Alright, so let's get right into it. The first thing and most important thing we do is choose our red now in this case I'm going to use Camara the red. It is a super red red. It is highly pigmented. It is super bright Pick whatever red you want to be your base tone. You could use a more desaturated whole type red or anything like that They're all fine. It's just gonna be our mid tone for a highlight We're gonna focus on sunny skin tone and this is the magic for our shadow We're gonna use dark brown ochre, but anything can work. The highlight is the challenge We want to use something like a flesh color When we get to the shadows, we could use that brown or we could use a purple that would be fine And I start purple we could even use a black although black tends to work better on shadows for things that are inorganic Cloth or whatever But browns purples blacks heck even dark greens can be great shadows for reds But the sunny skin tone is where you're gonna see the magic happen Because it's gonna act as a much more natural color to highlight the red So step one is pretty straightforward when you're trying to paint a red skin tone and that's paint the thing red Now here. I'm working over just a standard zenithal prime. I didn't need to do a warm zenithal learning like that Camara is pigmented enough. It's just going to turn the thing red Next up we're gonna go ahead and start adding in some shadow color Now I'm not just washing this squig all over because that puts a lot of shade and deposits a lot of shade on the top Where I don't want it this thing's a big beach ball We want to get that color where it belongs underneath So I've mixed in a little of that dark brown ochre into the red and we're just starting to sketch out some shadows Right seeing where do these shadows lie? So now we're gonna get the other side of him and again, I'm just trying to find those areas where there's actually You know where shadow would be found Squigs are really interesting shapes because they are just beach balls with tails and teeth But we'll do some human muscle structure later But the key here is you want to create those natural shadows and something like this dark brown ochre Mixed in with some red or even just glazed on its own can really accomplish that But now comes the challenging part shadows on red like I said are easy you can use any of a host of colors Highlights here. I've mixed in sunny skin tone in about a one to two ratio to the red So more red than sunny skin tone and I'm just in laying down the initial highlights. Yes, it looks very pink Stay with me. It's gonna be okay. I Mix in more sunny skin tone now. We're about one to one Yes, again, these are all you know estimations The first thing I'm gonna tell you is when you're highlighting red I don't want you to care about trying to necessarily achieve a smooth blend right away Unless you're very comfortable working with thick paint and wet blending for the most part I just want you to sketch in those ultra high highlights now it's mostly sunny skin tone with just a little bit of red and I'm gonna go ahead and really pop up just those tiny areas that are the most Highlighted the where I want to draw the most attention the center of the face, etc Then we're gonna take that original mid-tone red the red in this case work it down into a glaze consistency and Just give a nice coat more or less over the whole thing I'll leave the highest highlights untouched, but then I'll kind of feather it out over that area as you'll see Why skin tone sunny skin tone is a mix of effectively orange and white So it has the transparency of orange, but the pop of white and it just feels like a more naturalistic color moving into These Caucasian skin tones for highlights allows you to achieve smoother blends easier and creates more naturalistic light Situations in your red doesn't look as harsh as suddenly jumping to a bubblegum pink with using something like white It's also much easier to blend down and to make sure that it fades into the existing red When you glaze over it, it will give you a nice bright pop color Now let's see that same process again, but this time on a more human figure. I guess it's an ogre technically But he's humanoid Here we have our old buddy Larry the ogre if you're a longtime viewer You know Larry has been a guest star in many videos and we went ahead and painted in red I begin by hitting the undersides of the muscle structure in that same dark brown ogre red mix And then again now on all those areas. I want highlighted and we're gonna go big to start We're working in that same mix So we start with basically two to one red sunny skin tone then one to one then one to two right introducing over time more and more sunny skin tone and I left in quite a long period here at the end where you're gonna see Exactly how I fuzz with the color to get it balanced out We're gonna do a future video on the magic of fuzzing with stuff FUTZ Because I really think that that's the actual secret to high-end painting is just sitting there messing with stuff But on the humanoid structure, you notice because there's a lot of these individual muscles I'm just focusing a lot more always pushing the high highlights to the top of the muscle structure And again before I come in with my glaze it looks like crap That's okay when you're working with red you need to get comfortable with the ugly phase The ugly phase is a concept in miniature painting that at some point in time You're throughout the process or miniature is going to look well ugly because You've got a bunch of unblended paints on there or the colors aren't all in balance yet or Maybe things are still too rough or sketched or whatever It doesn't matter The point is that red when you're especially when you're doing skin tone and trying to really push those highlights up To sell the contrast that skin requires You're very much going to have a significant ugly phase Don't let that dissuade you as you can see here as I'm just continuing to push the paint around It's fine Because red is so naturally transparent We can use it to our advantage when we keep a very small amount of sunny skin tone in there and stick mostly to the red And then thin that down to a glaze which is pretty easy We get a beautiful glaze that just makes the blend suddenly snap into place And you can see I just keep working the lines building in little half steps and then going in with a glaze to smooth it out That's really the secret. I make a little half step between the the paint that I already have on my palette Smooth out the harsh line and then go back in and glaze it into the color below and rinse and repeat And the fun part about this is when you're working quick like at this at the end once you have that initial sketch down Going up into the super high flush You can now just work on those individual areas And this is a great chance to really hone in those wet blending skills because you're working with that paint You're working fast. You're working in a small area You're just refining and you can use that to get those nice smooth blends real quick and real easy So that's the secret to red skin tone. It's Integrate Caucasian flesh town and then find a shadow color you like purple dark green dark brown black Any of them will work Build them up. Don't worry about blending and then glaze to bring them together So there you go I hope you liked that if you did give it a like Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future if you've got questions drop them below But as always, thank you for watching and we'll see you next time