Tried a new brush pack for a portrait and the skin tones went weird

I bought the 'Realistic Portrait' brush set for Procreate last week, thinking it would speed up my work. Used it on a client piece and the default color palette made everyone look kind of orange and waxy. Learned that even good tools need a lot of tweaking to fit your own style. Has anyone else had to completely rebuild the colors on a brush set they bought?

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vera_foster367mo ago

Yeah, that's super common with those packs. Read a blog post from an illustrator who said she basically never uses the default colors that come with any brush set. She had to completely redo the skin tone palette on a set she bought because it made everyone look sunburned. The base colors are just a starting point, really. You almost always have to adjust them to match your own lighting and style.

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vera_foster367mo ago

So what does she actually do to fix them?

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josephl676mo ago

Honestly it makes me wonder if the brush makers even test the colors on different canvases. Like a color that looks fine on a white background turns totally weird on toned paper.

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