>>6511143He used pic related, he was not sponsored but said it was pretty good.
Mentioned that you have to start with a darker color and paint the whole face on it, then pic a brighter one and do the same but leaving parts of the darker color exposed and so on. You are supposed to do these layers not only with the base colors but also using mixing them in different proportions in order to get a gradient of like 15 or more layers. The idea is that parts of the face like the upper lip, forehead, top of the cheeks and nose are bright while lower lip, bottom of the cheeks and neck under nose are dark and you create a gradient of color between them. He said that those bright-dark areas were out of experience but that a technique was placing the figure under an artificial light, and taking note were the shadows where, and use them as reference.
After you do that you gently blur the gradient lines with a filter, very diluted one.
Never use black to darken, but purple. I think he mentioned yellow for brightening, something about the color wheel and complementary colors.
