Hey guys it's me, you can call me artist and in today's video I am going to explain how I get such smooth skin with my paintings especially in gouache because I'm not sure if this works with other mediums I know in oil paint it does because I kind of use gouache and oil paints kind of similar, similar, similar, similar really, you know what I mean but yeah I hope there's kind of somewhat helps if you have a specific topic that you want me to talk about, just leave it in the comments and I'll speak about it in my next video. So as you can tell from the beginning of me starting to paint I do painting sections and that kind of helps me blend all the colors together so I really evaluate each section and each of the colors and place the colors next to each other because gouache is soluble with water I use it to its advantage to blend so when I place two colors together it will automatically blend once they touch each other if they're both wet and if they're not wet you can just simply use water to kind of butter out but make sure that your layers of gouache is very thick when you start to buffer out because if you place down a really thin layer of gouache and you try to like buffer out with a dab brush it will irritate the underneath layer and it will become very patchy and you don't want that. Also a lot of people ask me what skin tones I use hopefully soon I will create like a little helpful video that helps you on how to mix skin tones but I make sure to mix the skin tones very close to what I need them. Having the colors exactly like how I see in the reference photo makes it less for you to kind of blend it to create a color so instead of creating a color by adding the dark and the light and trying to get in the between shade just create that in between shade because it will help so much with the blending and go final look and what I mean by create that middle shade is pre-mixed the two colors before on a palette test it out and then use it and I really recommend you always test out your colors on a piece of paper especially for gouache because it does oxidize a lot and you don't want the color to be darker than you expect or lighter than you expect if that makes it. So there is a little cheat that I used to use at the start of when I started to paint that really helped me look at the skin tones and evaluate what shades and tones and different colors there are in the skin and that is you literally just have to zoom in to the picture to see what color it is. Zoom in until all you see is a block of color and just a solid color all over your screen and that kind of can help you indicate what base color maybe shading color, cheek color you need. I hope that made sense I'll leave like a little clip off me showing it so hopefully that's helpful. You'll soon just realize that the colors are repeating and the same shades are turns and that you need to mix up and that really helps your learning because you're really evaluating the colors and you're really using the reference at its finest. So I have nothing else to say I hope these tips and like information helped you and you can take from it and yeah I'm not gonna say anything until the end of the video so I hope you enjoyed the process and yeah I'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.