Design Influence: Skin Undertones & Practice

   As for my character I decided to go with more of an undertone of colour rather than a flat, thick layer of paint all over the face and body I thought it would be a good idea to test out colour schemes that I could use for my monster. I thought the most natural way of creating a new undertone to skin and still show skin texture though would be using my aqua colour palette from Kryolan as you can really water down the pigment with these paints creating a kind of water colour wash effect.
   I started off by using the green in this palette and a lot of water and applied it to my skin using cosmetic triangle sponges. I decided to use sponges as it really helps to blend the colour into the skin and not create brush stroke marks which is something you want to avoid when painting a face, arm, body etc. After playing around with the colour by stroking the sponge up and down my arm to remove any unnecessary colour I thought the effect was very realistic, by realistic I mean that you can still see my natural skin texture though the paint and it isn't overly noticeable on the skin.
   My next go at creating undertones I decided to try and achieve a greyish green effect to the skin, I created my colour by using the left over green from the previous application and mixed the slightly amount of black. When applying this onto the skin I noticed that it really clung to hairs and showed a lot of skin texture that I didn't really want to be shown on camera, I also noticed that the colour that I had got wasn't the colour I wanted to achieve in the end result. If I was to ever come back to playing around with colours I would defiantly be looking at mixing white into my mixture and also try and find a solution to unwanted skin texture showing though paint.
   My final colour scheme test I thought mixing the tiniest amount of yellow into my green would create a rather sickly effect which is also something I want to achieve with my monster. After mixing the colours together and applying it to my skin I noticed that this mixture gave a lot of depth to my skin as the green was showing though in a kind of blotchy, bruised way but also defining features like my knuckles which I rather liked the look of.
   In conclusion the my third trial at undertones seems to be a strong candidate for being my overall skin tone for my monster, however I do plan on mixing up more colours before my exam to make sure I get my final and favourite colour combination.