Drawing Skin Tones With Polychromos Colored Pencils

I want to show you how just changing one pencil can completely change a skin tone. Colour swatches are a fantastic tool for matching and accuracy and you can use this technique to improve drawing portraits and people.
This tutorial uses the following Polychromos colours:
Ivory
Light Flesh
Warm Grey III
Cinnamon
Warm Grey IV
Bistre
Walnut Brown
Burnt Ochre
Red Violet
Burnt Siena
Venetian Red
Dark Sepia
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[@elisabethdavid3926]

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial.
I love to colour, and I only just started getting serious about it. Even though your tutorial is in faber Castel I think it's very applicable to other brands as well because of how you explain how the colour work together to get your end result ❤

[@framondias6376]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@celtic5torm59]

1 of my goals is to draw a portrait of myself or to draw someone famous and this helps a lot thank

[@celtic5torm59]

Wow your channel is growing great job and keep up the great videos. I think I subbed at about almost 100 or 130 subs and I’ve seen your channel grow over this short period of time.

[@GemmaChambersArt]

Thanks so much, I'm still amazed logging on every day and seeing more subscribers. I'm blown away by the support!

[@dwarakaprasad7586]

U r doing really great

[@nilabsayed4277]

Thank you for sharing 💞

[@grahamekellermeier8280]

Great video must be doing German skin tones if you do English skin tones you will have to use Derwent pencils.

[@BarbaraDick-r5]

Polychromos changes their color names all the time, it would help to know numbers, thanks

[@Bhodisatvas]

Have you used the brush and pencil blending powder yet?

[@taco5158]

Hey can you make a real time video of how to do the circular motion properly?

[@fotoalive]

Great, in this video you gave the colors used. I starting in portait I bought Faber Castell Pitt pastel, trying to learn Colin Bradley style , then later saw beautiful Portrait tutorials on colored pencils,so I bought the Derwent Ligtfast 36 colors ,they seem Ok for Portraits , animals and Landscapes but like other people saying in reviews ,too many browns and greens . I see you using the Faber castell as opposed to Derwent .Do you have preference for Polychromos ? I heard they were better for details work and they come in very nice color range so will need to buy thoses too! Please keep doing turorials want to see more more.......and more! Thank you!

[@GemmaChambersArt]

I've always been a Polychromos fan, I really like the detail you can work in with them. Thanks for the kind words, I'll keep making new videos!

[@hannelisenel6251]

I missed your list of pencils used Gemma. May I ask if you can give them to me please? Love your way of presenting your teaching

[@jacintocorderosanmartin9016]

Could you please help me telling what color of polycromos should use if do not have the ivory one. Thanks is advance your courtesy

[@mctorres2679]

Great video thank you for sharing. I learned a lot. But what exact colors were used on second row of skin tones

[@GemmaChambersArt]

Ooh now that's a good question, it was a while ago I made this video. Looking at it I'm pretty certain it's as follows:
4 - Ivory, Beige-Red (used to be called Light Flesh), Venetian Red, Red-Violet, Burnt Siena
5 - Ivory, Beige-Red, Burnt Ochre, Bistre, Warm Grey IV, Walnut Brown
6 - Ivory, Warm Grey III, Warm Grey IV, Burnt Siena, Dark Sepia
I hope this helps!

[@mctorres2679]

@@GemmaChambersArt wow. Thank you for replying. Thank you so much.

[@bunthatprum6520]

The Easiest Way to get skin is just sienna and shade