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6. Shading

Adding extra shading or color to the face is totally optional. I do it with some of my faces, but not all of them.

Again I make a new layer for the shading. Shading to the face can look better when you use the lighten/darken tools directly on the skin, but I want my head in all three skin tones, so I'll just do it as a seperate layer.

I start by picking a dark color (rember that it must appear dark on all three skintones), use a fairly big paintbrush and set the opacity very low. I change the size of the paintbrush as I work, and I go over the areas that I want to be darkest several times. I exaggerate the shading a bit, because I can always turn down the opacity of the entire layer later.
When the shading is right I go over it with the Retouch - Soften tool with a high opacity.
Then I pick a color, dark red for this head and add some color to the cheeks, still using the paintbrush with a low opacity. I might use the soften tool again.
Then I turn down the opacity of the layer in the Layer Palette, untill I get the look I want.

I think she looks good now, so I just check her out in SimPose:

Yup, I'll consider her done :)

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