Skintones anyone?

Good news everyone! I was looking around the Internets and found a really cool thingy (technical term). I quite often have a realllly hard time figuring out the proper skin tone for a given humanoid figure in my work. Skin tones are hard. Lucky, someone with much more time and models on their hands made this little help for skin tones. They reference Pantone colors as the main color the person is. I think it's a really fun way to picture what the skin tone  of you subject matter would be. The reason this is helpful, at least it will be to me, is that once you know the "base" color of the skin you are working with, it's only a small matter to darken and lighten as you move across the different planes of the head and body. Please enjoy, link to original article.

Have you ever gotten a gift that makes you feel so cool that you have to tell everyone about it? Well for my birthday, my wife did an amazing thing, she listened to what I wanted for my birthday and found this pen pictured. It's a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. She could only find it in one store in like, Minn. or some place like that. How crazy is that? I would say almost as crazy as me with only 2.567834 hours of sleep. Oh yeah. Anyways, this is what it looked like before I put the ink in, now it's all black. If ninjas used ink instead of blood to write with, they would use this pen. That's how freaking cool it is.



Ps-I drew all the line work in my, Griswold piece with it in like 5 mins, soo cool! Best pen ever...