The regular skin tone for the italian-american and the latinos, usually, they have like golden-orange skin in the show.
I don't know if you have noticed this, because it's very, VERY easy to miss, but, pay attention to any cartoon! Do you notice that the color scheme of the artworks and the animation reference sheets for the characters do not match usually how they look in the show?
Well, many episodes of the shows were recorded from the TV, which likely have different color configurations, which if you pay attention, sometimes the color can be saturated or in others can be like... graying or something, but it's clear that the color configuration of the TV from which the episodes of a show were recorded, affects the tones of all of the characters, the most common is that eyes are not fully white, they look white, but upon close checking you discover they're actually light gray, even in daytime shots.
If you take the color references directly from the TV, you have to reverse the color configuration so you can get the actual color schemes, unless you actually like the tones you see. Try to find a program that can fix the colors, you cna do it with photoshop or more economically, you can use Microsoft Word or any similar one, in case you use Apple.
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I sort of understand what you're trying to say here, but at the same time I don't.
Like I get back when the show still used animation cels, the colours from cel to screen would change (Like this cel from "Some Enchanted Evening" and how it was shown aired). Cel animation is admittedly a lot more "scuffed" than digital
But this "colour refences from TV" thing I don't get, you mean like holding your camera to your TV and picking your colours from there? Picking colours from streaming sites (legal or not)?
I picked my colours from the Frinkiac (the screenshot I used from there for Matt from when I initially drew him)
But when I picked the colours and applied them to Matt, I wasn't too fond of how it looked, so I went to MS Paint's Edit Colours and moved the colour picker a little down until a found some a colour I thought worked for him (the one currently on his reference sheet).
And besides, I don't feel any better about Matt's whole "Ambiguously Brown" thing, I have been thinking about making his grandpa on his father's side Mexican and his grandpa changed his full name when he came to America to fit in, abandoning his heritage in the progress. Not even telling his son (Matt's dad) about it. Which he later deeply regrets and then tells his son and his family about their Mexican heritage as he's dying, fucking them up as they'd been raised as "American" their whole life and struggling what to do as they barely feel Mexican.
