Painting skin-practice

Decided to continue the blog despite graduating because I still do study in my own time.

I noticed it was hard for me to paint people when asked by Mosely to complete concept art for him so I decided I would get better at this.

I have a lot of trouble with skin so I sought out skin tutorials online, I found several;

http://toyskunk.deviantart.com/art/Tutorial-Painting-Skin-in-PS-100328544
http://navate.deviantart.com/art/SKIN-a-tutorial-Part-2-145159387

I also found this site which I'm thinking of doing some of the tutorials

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/advanced-digital-painting-tutorials/

I'm also sketching faces every day because this was something that I have trouble with. I'm getting better but they still turn out wonky. I'm doing this by sketching faces from films.

Which is why my skin practice is a wonkily drawn Josh Brolin(No country for old men). Not bad for no reference though.

For this I used the ToySkunk tutorial from deviantart(above)

Here's a progression reel