How to Mix Deep Skin Tone in Acrylic
A rich, warm dark flesh tone. Built from earth reds and umbers. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #6B3F2A in acrylic, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.
Target
Deep Skin Tone
#6B3F2A
Mixed result
99% matchFrom these pigments
#6B3F29
Pigment recipe
Checked August 2026
Ratios calibrated for acrylic. Start with the dominant pigment, add the modifiers in the order below, and adjust in 5% steps to your target swatch.
1. Yellow Ochre
PY43
76%2. Cadmium Red
PR108
19%3. Ivory Black
PBk9
5%
What colors make Deep Skin Tone?
Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, and Ivory Black, in roughly a 76:19:5 ratio.
How to make Deep Skin Tone in acrylic
Start with Yellow Ochre at about 76% as your acrylic base, then work in Cadmium Red and Ivory Black in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #6B3F2A.
Why mix Deep Skin Tone instead of buying it
Mixing Deep Skin Tone yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Deep Skin Tone across paint brands whose factory tubes differ, and rebuild the exact color when you run out mid painting. The recipe above is the working starting point.
Common mistakes
Reaching for more black to deepen it kills the chroma, add the dark modifier already in the recipe instead.
Get this recipe for your paint brand
Open the live mixer with Deep Skin Tone + acrylic pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.
Deep-dive guide
How to mix Deep Skin Tone, the long version
Common mistakes, per-brand recipes, and the honest limits when the target sits outside what real paint can reach.
Read the guideRelated mixing guides
Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.