Color zones of the face and other Painting Resources
polycounter lvl 2
Hey guys, beginner here and was wondering if anyone had something like this but for the human body: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/05/color-zones-of-face.html
I've been looking everywhere but can't seem to dig up anything. The closest thing I found was another polycount thread where one of posters mentioned that the elbows and knees were darker with the backside of the arms and legs being paler etc. I know I shouldn't expect a tutorial for everything and try learning off of references, but I wanted to see if there were concepts and techniques that were tried and tested that I could apply to painting the body before I start trying my own techniques.
To elaborate, a lot of the resources I've found were just tutorials on how to create realistic human textures via photo or painting. I feel like just making one eventone realistic human texture and spreading that all around the body and calling it finished isn't the right thing to do - I'm sure there are colorzones for the body where the blood comes through subtly and not so subtly.
I've been looking everywhere but can't seem to dig up anything. The closest thing I found was another polycount thread where one of posters mentioned that the elbows and knees were darker with the backside of the arms and legs being paler etc. I know I shouldn't expect a tutorial for everything and try learning off of references, but I wanted to see if there were concepts and techniques that were tried and tested that I could apply to painting the body before I start trying my own techniques.
To elaborate, a lot of the resources I've found were just tutorials on how to create realistic human textures via photo or painting. I feel like just making one eventone realistic human texture and spreading that all around the body and calling it finished isn't the right thing to do - I'm sure there are colorzones for the body where the blood comes through subtly and not so subtly.
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Skin coloration is informed directly by anatomy. If you study superficial anatomy in particular... muscles & ligaments & tendons & fat layers directly below the skin... then the skin coloration will start to become clearer. Especially when examining photo reference.
James Gurney is great btw. I highly recommend his Color & Light book.