Realistic skin tones?

i'm painting with acrylics and retarder - thin layers - but my skin tones are just dead. what is a good combination of colors and in what order, to get more luminous skin in my paintings? any thing will be helpful.
Realistic skin tones?
Don't waste your money buying ready-made, so-called flesh tints. Simply mix some white, yellow or golden ochre, and a strong red such as cadmium red. Keep the amount of red to a minimum to avoid going too pinkish. For darker tones, add some Payne's grey.





With acrylics always start with the light colours first, then fill in the shadows.





Hope this helps
Realistic skin tones?
red, blue, green





on your regular skin tone color
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Reply:white skin tones have white, red %26amp; yellow


darker skin tones also have red or yellow tones
Reply:I know this is for acrylics, but I've seen and heard that alot of airbrush artists use their own variations of burnt or raw sienna to create flesh tones. I suppose that a bit of gamboge wouldn't hurt...it'll give it a sort of glow.
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The thing about flesh tones is that the light that a person is in and the relationship of the surrounding light to the person. I for basic skin tones use a lot of titanium white a little of yellow ochre and even less of cadium red light because any cadium is a strong color, for darks I useburned umber maybe paynes gray.


But you have to think about the warm and coolo colors like the blues in the shade and yellows in the sun , so make the sunny side yellow even going toward white and in the shadows add blue yellow ochre and burned umber.


The relationship is very important, practice and study of people from life not fotographs.


good luck
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