Improve Your Portraits With This Subtle Skin Shading Technique

Skin shading is probably the most time-consuming part of creating a vector portrait. Viewers rarely focus on it, but if it's done badly, it'll bring the overall quality of your piece down.

In this video tutorial from myAdvanced Vector Portraitscourse, you'll learn to create skin that looks completely realistic. I'll teach youa detailed yet simple technique to createsubtle skin shading for a vector portrait.

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Learning to draw the human figure and create stunning vector portraits can be very tricky indeed.In the full course,Advanced Vector Portraits, I’ll introduce you to more advanced techniques that will push yourcreativity and help develop your own styles in vector portraits.

You’ll learn more about skin shading, as well as techniques such as basic colour manipulation, working with a restricted palette, adding a texture and much more.