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Exploring Flesh Tones

🎨 Capture the warmth and nuance of the human face. In this 2-hour portrait demo, Howard Lyon guides you through two oil studies of models from different ethnicities, exploring the subtleties of skin tones and the relationships between color and temperature.

You’ll learn how to:

🖌️ Observe and depict the subtle shifts in hue and value that give skin its vitality
🎨 Identify temperature variations and how they interact across different skin types
📐 Build convincing form while maintaining freshness and painterly energy
🌟 Deepen your understanding of portraiture through focused, comparative studies


Perfect for painters looking to refine their ability to render lifelike skin tones and create portraits with depth, accuracy, and sensitivity. 🕒 Runtime: 2 hours

  • Howard Lyon

    Instructor

  • Advanced

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Howard Lyon

Howard Lyon is an artist that was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. He is the youngest of five children. Howard had very supportive parents, who even when he was very young, made sure he had the materials and education to hone his talents. While attending high school Howard met his wife, Shari Lunt. They now have three children and reside in Utah.

Howard began his career studying illustration at Brigham Young University working with artists such as Robert Barrett, Don Seegmiller, Richard Hull and Ralph Barksdale. Over the past 20 years he has worked in the video game industry as an Art Director, concept artist and freelance illustrator. For much of his career he has painted dragons and trolls or scenes from science fiction. His work can be found in products from Dungeons and Dragons books, World of Warcraft cards, Magic: the Gathering and Star Wars. He also writes for the Fantasy Art blog Muddy Colors and has recently been doing work for Brandon Sanderson's books including Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, and the covers for Dreamer and Snapshot.

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