Skin tones

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This is my practice of learning skin tones. I learned that skin tones are harder to make than I imagined. However, I also learned that skin tones are layers and layers of different hues and that some people of mixtures of hues ranging where on the skin that a person is looking at. For example, a person's neck can be darker than their face or have a more red undertone than their face. I'm still improving on skin tones but, understand it more than before.

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