Skin color practice

The anatomy of the shadowing is a little funky and I didn't bother doing really anything useful on the necks up, but this was a relatively quick piece just to practice some skin tones. Nowhere near mastering it, but I had fun and learned a lot! I spent about a half hour to an hour on each lovely lady.

Linework by (If you are interested---> [link] )
(I did edit the original piece a little, but only because since I was practicing different skin tones, I didn't want to be distracted by any clothing from the original top two... and, honestly, I just wanted to color their nipples. If any offense to this is taken by the artist of the linework, I have no problems with taking this down. The pay off was in the practice and learning process. Posting it here is just the little cherry on top of the whip cream covered boo-- I mean sundae.)

I made my own palettes. However, I found this tutorial incredibly helpful --> [link]

Critique if you want. I know where most of the mistakes are and, again, this was just a practice piece.