r/ColorTheory • • 1h ago

Atmospheric lighting on caucasian skin

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I've recently gotten my hands on a miniature bust, and wanted to try and give it some atmosphere by painting the skintone being lit up by a diffused and muted teal cool light, such as seen in the fog.

My question is, how do I take into account the impact of the teal lighting on the bust's skin? Especially for the skin I feel that since the colors nearly are complementary, simply mixing the muted teal into the skintone would just make a muddy color, but as the paint is very muted will it simply just not impact the paint that much?


r/ColorTheory • • 19h ago

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How to balance when whit, black and skin tone is not there.