Well this one had a surprise. I'm not sure if skin will act this way or not (I think not), but when I went through and shaded everything lightly with black ink, I was setting the base value so that the colored inks would darken where necessary. However, when I went over them with the red and blue inks, it lightened up the black ink to the value of the red and blue! Now, I have been told that you should start with black and work your way up the values going lighter. Therefore, the inks must be mostly translucent. I'm thinking that this attempt acted this way because the orange holds on to everything on top, rather than letting you just see through it. Anyway, not bad for my final color practice! I am sure that I have learned all I can from coloring oranges. (Hilarious.) The rest must be from trial and error on human tests.
... I am considering giving myself a testing area of my own skin that resembles the marks on all printed materials that show what colors of inks are printed on the product. You know what I'm talking about? That way, I would know what they would do and could even use it to show clients what to expect, if needed. Not sure yet, but it might be cool.
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