classicist* skin tones are far from dead! go see one in person - the camera cannot capture it properly (and potentially, neither can pixels.) It's created by a number of layers and interplay of light, dark, warm, cool, hard, soft, glossy, and dull, to create skin that glows like a real person without using neons like sherm's (although nothing against neons - i do like the edit).
since pixels are opaque you will have your work cut out for you trying to make it glow like the masters' oils, though i suppose compared to tempera it's about the same (though tempera usually relies on bold colors the way sherm's does).
*classicist and neo-classicist refer to the renaissance styles that idolized classical works. classical refers to ancient greece and rome, and their statues were either painted bright orange and yellow for skin, or left the natural stone color. Michelangelo was not a classical painter, he was a renaissance classicist.