Color Guide - Skin Toned Pencils

Color Guide - Skin Toned Pencils

This post will be about the different possible colors for skin tones using colored pencils, if you'd like to read about the following pencil brands click here.

Note 1: These color tones are a matter of opinion what looks like a Skin Tone.

Note 2: These Are Only Natural Skin Tones, All Other Tones Are Up For Personal Preference Only.

Note 3: I only talk of shading within brands but I personally mix brands to color and shade because of their different waxes and hardness-es.

Prismacolor Premier

Prismacolor codes colors both by name and code I will post both.

• Burnt Ocher, PC943 -Reddish orange toned brown good for many darker races.
  
• Sienna Brown, PC945 – A bit harsher brown but still reasonable in color and saturation, semi red tinted but very brown nonetheless. (Shades “Burnt Ocher, PC943”)
  
• Light Umber, PC941 – Much less saturated, kinda tree barkish in color but it's still good for darker skin tones. (Shades “Sienna Brown, PC945”)
  
• Light Peach, PC927 – Much like the default skin tone for Anime style, that peachy fleshy tone, Not overly pale semi saturated.
  
• Peach, PC939 – Best as a shading color for “Light Peach, PC927 “, unless you like people very orange in skin color. - Preference.
  

• Cream, PC914 – This is good for some skin tones, some people do have a yellowish complexion (Chinese for example) but used wrong your person doesn't look very good, it's a touchy color.
• Yellow Ochre, PC942 – Only good really for shading “Cream, PC914”.
  

Crayola

Crayola has a few colors as well for skin tones, these don't blend nearly as well as Prismacolors do though, so be sure to put your shading in before the wax builds up too much, part of this is to not press your base colored pencil so hard and add the shading with the base color after you put the really dark shadows in, else things will be a bit odd looking!

• Brown – Very dark color brown, good for darker skinned people and also shades “Light Brown”.
• Light Brown- About a third to a fourth less as dark as “Brown” and a bit more saturated than “Brown” as well; It's good for shading Tan as well.
• Taupe – This is a paler brownish color, kinda has a bit of a grey tint in it too but it does look a bit like a skin tone for some people.
• Tan – A nice balanced color, very brown influenced but lighter in color and a bit more peachy looking; it's good for shading “Peach” with the darker shades.
• Peach – Similar to “Light Peach, PC927” In the Prismacolor Premier Section; Shaded well by “Tan” and “Yellow Orange”.

EK Memory Pencils

EK labels their pencils by both color name and a circle around a number, but since I don't know how to put a circle around a number I will use “( )”.

• Soft Orange, (2) – Similar to “Light Peach, PC927” In the Prismacolor Premier Section and “Peach” in the Crayola Section – Only a little paler; Shaded well by “Medium Orange (28)” and depending on how saturated you like your shading by “Orange, (45)”.
• Medium Orange, (28) – Similar to “Peach, PC939” Prismacolor – Only a little less saturated. Shaded by “Orange, (45)”.
• Tree Bark, (9) – Similar to “Burnt Ocher, PC943” with a bit less reddish orange but still has a saturated look to it.
• Chestnut, (10) – Similar to Crayola's “Light Brown”. 
  
  
  
   

Other

Creatology and Other off brands have skin tones but no name to their tones so it's very much up to your own interpretation of these colors. - I've taken a picture though of the skin tone pencils I own, I cannot name any brand names as I no longer have their boxes to say who made them, but I can say I bought them all in dollar stores (Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, etc..).

Off Brand

Creatology

I hope this gave you at-least a basic guideline, I wanted to have each color shown but the pictures I took look terrible and I don't know how to make the background white without messing the color's actual appearance. - I can however direct you to a color chart that you can find the colors I mentioned for the Prismacolor Premier Pencils. (That was a very confusing sentence!)



Chart Here.



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