BIKINI!! XD Nice job, Temari is definately my favorite Naruto character!

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Thanks. Temari's one of my favorites, too

Whoa, the coloring is awesome on this. Do you have any kind of great wisdom to share about picking skin colors?

Thanks!

As for skin tones... I typically pick reddish tones as the base color for skin (although in real life skin is all sorts of colors, just look at your own! ...but this is anime-and-cartoon-land, so anyway)... I oftentimes use variants of said reddish tone for the shading, although sometimes I'll push the shading/darker tones towards blue. Shadows typically are more 'blue' than well-lit areas, has something to do with how blue light scatters more or something. I tend to use more pinkish or yellowish tones for highlighting ...be very careful with this, though.

And don't be afraid to use the hue/saturation/value filter-thing. ...and lastly, while this isn't directly related to skintones, I usually use a semi-transparent gradient layer over top of the whole pic, usually set to something like "overlay" or "hard light" and screw with it until I get what I want. In the end, it all comes down to experimentation and finding something that works for you!