Let's face it; Pin-up images are all about showing skin.

Skin is probably both the easiest and hardest to paint, digitally or otherwise. Each of us has a different type of skin color; caucassian, asian, african-american. Asians even differ in skin tone according to where they are in Asia; Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos. Its up to the artist to find the right hue, not too orange, not too yellow or not too green (unless you're painting the Hulk or the Martian Manhunter).

The tutorials I've made regarding this subject will only focus on the techniques I use to color skin, and I'll try and make it as basic as I possibly can by using simple light sources and skin tone.

Now this tutorial presumes you already have basic knowledge of the following:

• Adobe Photoshop (the features listed in this tutorial are available from versions 6.0 and up)
• A basic idea of how to prepare pencilled or inked line arts
• A pen tablet (if you can use a mouse to paint in photoshop, then bravo to you, but this particular part of the tutorial would be at its most effective using a tablet)

If you're ready, then on to the tutorial.