Watercolor Coloration Tutorial - Skin

Welcome to my Coloration Tutorial for watercolor ^_^

In this tutorial I am going to explain to you how to make a beautiful coloration with watercolor pencils.
I work with fine grained 200g watercolor paper 32x24cm, for example Canson paper.

1. Skin:

First choose a nice skin tone, but it shouldn´t be too dark. I chose somewhat of a peach tone.
As you can see on the picture, I didn´t care much about coloring everything out to the lines, but only in the middle.
Zuerst wählt ihr einen Hautton aus, er sollte aber nicht zu dunkel sein. Ich habe hier so eine Art Pfirsichfarbe gewählt. The bottom line is it doesn´t really matter if you do or don´t. In the end it will be painted over with water and everything will blend just fine.
With the concentration of the color that you put on the paper with your pencil you can get different tones of color. The less color you put on the lighter the tone and the opposite of cause.

After I colored all the skin with the watercolor pencil, I use a thin brush (I used a Marabu brush, size 2) and paint over the color. Be careful to use enough water so the color can be thinned out to cover the lines as well (the more water you use, the lighter the color).
If you think it is too light, you can, after the paper is dry, repeat this steps.
Now your basic color tone is done.

Next we take a darker skin tone or a brown tone and mark the shadows the way we want to have them on the picture. The shadow spots are colored completely with the brown tone. Don´t forget, the less color you put on the picture, the lighter your brown tone.
After that we use the brush again with lots of water and blend in the color. The less water you use the sharper the contrast and outline. The more water you use the more you´re able to blend the color tones together.
You can repeat this step as often as you wish to.
I mostly use 3 layers for the skin.