


Want your characters to be blue, orange, and silver? Go right ahead! Want a dude with a purple face to live next door to a green skinned, not from space babe? The freedom's all yours, pal! If the characters are Genre Blind, their unnatural skin tones will probably go unnoticed. Thus, the normal range of human skin colors needn't have any bearing on the appearance of cartoon characters. Animators, whether they're drawing cartoon characters or building models for a video game, have the freedom to make or draw anything they want. Depending on our ethnic background, these will be layered in different proportions to color us some variation of brown. The natural color of our skin comes from the colors of protein, fat and blood: these provide only a handful of pigments in umber, amber, red and pink hues. In the real world, the color range of human skin is diverse - but not infinitely diverse.
