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Hi card makers...whenever I make a card with human figures in it I have always used alcohol ink markers to color in various skin tones. But I just bought a stamp set that has a person with bare arms, legs and face. It's a layered stamp set that stamps in the skin color in solid form and not just the outline that I could color in with markers.
Can anyone recommend a stamping ink pad brand that has good skin tones? Ideally I need 3 coordinating colors (light, medium and dark) to layer in the base and two levels of shading.
Thank you, great minds think alike lol. I used linen-colored paper and stamped the figure in solid white then colored over the figure using an alcohol marker. It worked! I left the post open because I'm still trying to find a nice skin toned ink pad. Thank you so much for your suggestion!
To Texas Granny, I thought of that but the figure is quite large (filling a 5x7inch card so I thought it would be too difficult to get a smooth image by trying to use my alcohol markers to color the stamp. Still, I think that would be a great idea to try because that's a great idea, thank you!
Hi card makers...whenever I make a card with human figures in it I have always used alcohol ink markers to color in various skin tones. But I just bought a stamp set that has a person with bare arms, legs and face. It's a layered stamp set that stamps in the skin color in solid form and not just the outline that I could color in with markers.
Can anyone recommend a stamping ink pad brand that has good skin tones? Ideally I need 3 coordinating colors (light, medium and dark) to layer in the base and two levels of shading.
Thanks for your input!
Oh, that's a tough one. I have trouble with the layered stamps, even though I've seen beautiful results from designers. I never seem to have the right gradations of color, and skin tones would be especially hard. I'm sure that some company must have tones in peach or tan that would work. Who makes the stamp set? Maybe they have a design team that's demonstrated with that set and can steer you to the ink pads they used
To Texas Granny, I thought of that but the figure is quite large (filling a 5x7inch card so I thought it would be too difficult to get a smooth image by trying to use my alcohol markers to color the stamp. Still, I think that would be a great idea to try because that's a great idea, thank you!
You're welcome. Sometimes it's good to remember that it's all just paper & ink. ;) Also, closely "huff" your moist breath onto the markered stamp to remoisten the ink. Best wishes.
Check Altenew for their sets of ink pads and cubes for layering colors. I saw that they have a Delectable Delights set that might work for skin.
I just got my Altenew cubes today as I am looking for skin color ink pads and I thought they might work. NOPE the inks don't match the ink pad labels and I don't think they look skin or even the names they are called. So disappointed. Here is what they look like. You can compare the actual color against cubes label.
I actually have some Prima watercolors that are for skin tones ( the set name is complexion) and the way this story is going is, the colors alone look a little yellow and or dark as samples of straight color but, layered together when the paint dries I'll be darned if they do not look like skin to my eye. ( amazing to me)
so maybe try stamping with some of those pads, the paler yellower shades and then maybe do some highlighting with a pale pinkish tone over the top. ? ( its all just paper eventually you may get a combo you really like and can do over again without so much work)
To Texas Granny, I thought of that but the figure is quite large (filling a 5x7inch card so I thought it would be too difficult to get a smooth image by trying to use my alcohol markers to color the stamp. Still, I think that would be a great idea to try because that's a great idea, thank you!
Oh, no!...you don't use alcohol markers to color the stamp. It will dry immediately and permanently stain your stamp. And you can't get it off.
When you are going to use markers on a stamp, you use a water-based marker. It is basically the same formulation as a dye ink pad. That's what Kittie was talking about when she said a "dye-based" marker.
You can consider Copic ciao skin tone markers. This 12-marker skin tone marker set contains 10 skin tone markers. As for the remaining two that form part of the set, they are the black marker and a colorless blender. The black is for creating outlines while the colorless blender does exactly what its name states, and it does so splendidly.
Last edited by mimirichman; 11-03-2021 at 04:22 AM..
Need advice about Skin Tone Stamp Pads
