Why light ink colors are used for facial skin in traditional brushwork figure paintings

Why do you use light ink colors for the facial skin in traditional brush painting? The answer is as follows: because if it is a figure of writing, you have to use pigment to make flesh color, directly on the face can be painted flesh color is these colors with: white, yellow, ochre, rouge. If it's a boy's face, these colors will do. If it's a girl's face, it also needs to be whiter, and you have to add stone green.

If it is a brushstroke figure, half of it is now eyelids, corners of the eyes, cheeks and other parts of the split-dye rouge and ochre, to shape the blood color and three-dimensional sense. And of course, near the nose, chin, and lips should be partially dyed.

Then comes the overdye. Just follow the flesh tones mentioned earlier, blend the colors, and overdye.

Writing characters, avoid a color painted several times, so the color should be adjusted once deep enough. Work brush is the opposite, the more times you dye, the thicker the color, is the so-called non-fluffy. Therefore, whether the work of dyeing or cover dyeing, the first few times very light, almost water color, is no color, so that the human face will not be like make-up foundation did not play evenly like.

Because the lips are red, so the beginning of the split-dye rouge, and then in the big red, and then cover-dye the color you want.

If you're painting a figure like "The Hairpin Lady", you'll want to partially dye it white, and then shade it a whiter flesh color.

Be careful about the colors you use, the water color is at the bottom and the stone color is at the top. Water color is like rouge, flower green, vine yellow and so on, better dissolved in water, no impurities or precipitates less color; stone color is ochre, stone green and other colors will have precipitates.

And after dyeing, to the back of rice paper or silk with a thicker white (face) or rouge (lips) bottom. The figure's face will have a thicker look. Of course, because the transparency of the silk is better than the cooked rice paper, so the bottom of the color should not be too thick, or the white will not be evenly coated, the face will not look good.

The hair of the face, the first part of the dye ink color, flower green, and then cover dye ink. If you think it's not black enough, you can overdye it a few times. The back can hold the bottom of the ink color.