Achieving the perfect palette for your digital character creations can prove quite the challenge. Whether you’re after a realistic and natural finish or something more stylized and dynamic, finding the right skin color isn’t just the cherry on top, it’s a must for mastering your CG art characters.

That’s why whether you’re a newbie, on a fast-approaching studio deadline, or you just need help practicing the skill, Cubebrush has you covered. From helpful tutorials to killer swatch sets, here are 6 Cubebrush resources for perfecting your digital art skin color palettes and bringing life to your characters with ease.

How to Choose a Color Palette

In this tutorial, popular CG artist Svetlana Tigai, also known as Tsvetka, exposes the secrets to achieving the perfect color palette. In this extensive tutorial-asset pack, Tsvetka answers the public’s yearning questions as to how she chooses and matches all the right colors.

With this set, you’ll learn new methods and tips, as well as the foundations which cover choosing a color palette that fits the type of project you’re working on, how to play with swatches, how to use references, and how to work with gradient maps.

This comprehensive pack contains:

• Timelapse 1.25-hour video tutorial with description and background music (720p)
• Real-time 4-hour video tutorial with voiceover (540p)
• PSD file with layers
• Full-sized JPEG of the final image
• Color theory summary JPEG
• 16 PSD brushes used in the tutorial

Skin Painting Tutorial

Being equipped with the right ready-made assets doesn’t always guarantee your success. Sometimes, it requires both the assets and the right technique. That’s where this tutorial pack comes in handy.

This in-depth tutorial shares an artist’s method for painting human skin in Photoshop and consists of tips and tricks for working with variations in skin tones, lighting, shading, as well as how to use the provided brushes. While the tutorial primarily uses Photoshop, the techniques learned can be applied across other programs, such as Procreate.

This package includes:

• PSD file with layers
• PNG file of final image
• 1-hour+ HD video (1080p)
• Full-video commentary
• 5-Minute time-lapse video
• PSD brushes used in the tutorial

Skin and Face Color Palettes for Procreate

Whether you’re a beginner or on a time-crunch, pre-made color palettes can be a lifesaver. This resource bundle comes with a rich variety of assets for creating flawless color palettes in Procreate in no time.

This set of assets includes:

• 3 30-swatch skin palettes for light, medium and dark skin
• 1 30-swatch color palette with additional skin tones for details
• 3 30-swatch color palettes for blue, green and brown eyes
• 1 30-swatch color palette with various shades of white for eyes and teeth

Note: Files are only compatible with Procreate.

Skin Swatches

To begin to cover the plurality in human skin tones across the globe, and even those characters that may be figments of imagination, one pack will likely not cover all your digital creation needs. Within the journey of refining your digital characters skin color palettes, more is more. That’s where this abundant pack of assets gives you a boost.

 In this asset bundle, you’ll receive:

• 600 organized skin swatches
• 30 skin tones, 1 .aco file, 1 .ai file, 1 .ase file

Note: Files are compatible with Photoshop CS6, CC and Illustrator CS6, CC

Skin Tones Color Palette I

Are you searching for a new collection of skin tone color palettes for your next digital creation? This two-part skin-swatch series will help you get the job done effortlessly. The color palette combinations in this pack have been professionally hand-picked to work in harmony and capture the subtlety required to achieve life-like skin tones.

This asset pack contains:

• 1 Procreate “.swatches” file
• 1 Adobe “.ase” file
• Reference JPG
• Installation instructions PDF

Note: Files are compatible with Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo. Swatches can be used for both personal and professional use.

Skin Tones Color Palette II

This is Part II of the Skin Tone series and contains a completely different set of skin tones than Part I above, covering a variety of darker color combinations.

This asset set includes:

• 1 Procreate “.swatches” file
• 1 Adobe “.ase” file
• Reference JPG
• Installation instructions PDF

Note: Files are compatible with Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo. Swatches can be used for both personal and professional use.

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