The Egg Jordan Exercise For Painting Skin Tones

Summary by Krater

The video demonstrates a digital painting exercise of rendering skin tones and lighting on an egg shape using a reference photo of Michael Jordan. It explains how to choose base, light, shadow, and local colors using logic rather than color-picking, and concludes by adding a basketball jersey.

From the video

Answers: How do you paint realistic skin tones and lighting on a portrait?

• skin tone color theory
• light and shadow in digital painting
• highlight placement and angles
• local color adjustments in portraiture
• half-tone color shifting

What it concludes

• Painting skin tones on an egg shape using logical light and shadow relationships nurtures artistic imagination rather than copying reference photos pixel by pixel.
• Reflected or bounced light must remain within the shadow family, and highlights are angle-dependent based on the object, the eye, and the light source.