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Old 03-25-2005, 10:17 AM   #12
Richard Budig Richard Budig is offline
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Pasty color

Enzie:

Something else to remember is that as colors (flesh tone, also) lighten, they lose color.

Take any color on your palette from weak to brilliant, or take all your brilliant colors and lighten them with white to a value of, say, two or three. You'll discover they almost all look the same -- washed out, pasty, and cool.

Your real "color" will be over there in the halftones, and even in the shadows. Lights will have a bit of color, too, but the lighter lights, and highlights will usually be "colorless," so to speak.
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