Art lessons - learn about skin-coloring in portrait painting
The blue of the bruise should not be so powerful as to denote the bruise but rather the shadow shadow of flesh.
The same blue you might use for the jaw of a close-shaved jaw. This is the warm and cold. With an alabaster
skin tone the hint of the grey-blue is sufficient to make the shadow. See Boucher and other French artists of the
1700's.
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