Pascal's airbrush experiments

I added orange and orange / brown layers (with reducer).
In overall it's still too yellow. I will continue with red but mixed with something else other wise it will be too red.
Maybe red mixed with orange.

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Orange makes it even yellower. more intense.
You already have a warm surface. I rather think you have to put green through your red to keep it a bit cooler.
To yellow use violet.
To red - warm / green.
To intensify and warm it up, use orange/yellow.
But now everything is still much too light, to say it is too yellow.
Make another copy and cut a few holes in it .
And put it over your work.
What now appears dark is probably the color of the lightest part.
 
Thank you.
But I don't understand how green can make it more red.
I have many colors to choose from, but I'm not sure what to use for next layer.
See picture

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No that was not what I meant.
If you mix red with orange you only make a darker orange.
But orange and a little green and you get an ocher color.
What fits better in a portrait.
Why did I write red and green?
Most red already contains yellow (with the exception of magenta red )
And you already have yellow on your paper.
Not sure if it's enough to change the red to orange.
you will have to test.
If not, add some yellow to your mix.
 
Thank you.
But I don't understand how green can make it more red.
I have many colors to choose from, but I'm not sure what to use for next layer.
See picture

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Welcome to 'colour theory'. Listen to what Edwin is trying to explain, its not always about picking up a bottle of colour and spraying - sometime you need to tweak a colour to get it to where you need it to be.
 
Erwin is right with using a purple/violet to reduce the yellow. You use the complimentary colour so yellow will be purple/violet, red is green, blue is orange etc etc whatever is opposite on the colour wheel
 
Doesn't it also makes a difference in choosing colors between opaque and transparent?

I worked a little bit further on the illustration but think I will leave it here before I mess up.
I continue with my Wacom tablet.

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Do not be afraid.;)
Of course you're going to screw something up.
That happens to everyone no matter how good you are.
Fixing your mistakes is a very important part of the learning process.
You just get better at fixing it.
If you don't make mistakes, you haven't learned anything.

Opaque colors or buffer colors (transparent with white)
Are easier to fix if things go wrong.
But lack some depth.
I often use an opaque underdrawing with transparent over it.
 
You now have a layer of yellow ocher.
To warm it up, you can use a layer of brown ocher or red ocher.
It's repeating what you've already done more paint in the dark places less or none in the light places.
And for the very dark places you can go more to a sepia color.
If you mix these colors yourself, count the drops and write them down.
 
First I had a problem with my red paint. It wasn't liquid anymore (see picture).
Luckily I had another bottle.
Now I added a red layer and it improved.
Something that I have to keep in mind is that I have warm spots that are pointed to the center where I paint but not so much on the side where I have my example picture. This caused an extra yellow look on the picture.
For this picture I switched off the light and used the flash instead.

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I'm trying something new now. In the portret in attachment I have the problem that how longer I work on the skin - to get it right - the less smooth it becomes. I don't know how to avoid this or solve it.

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To make an even transition.
Start with a line.
Spray the next line from a slightly higher height and overlap the first line by 50%.
and so on.
the higher the height the more paint you can give.

To fix it, you can spray some paint in lighter places.
But you have to be careful not to get into the darker places.

Personally I wouldn't worry about it.
With a few more layers it is already less visible.
And skin is not even.
A portrait from so close up.
I try not to spray too evenly, otherwise it will become too plastic.
For me .
 
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