Hey Steemians! Good day to all of you. Today I'm gonna post a vexel tutorial since my last post on Liza as Darna Fan art is just a quick step by step process on how to do it and that didn't have the full details of the process. But today I'm gonna show you the full details. Remember that this is the way that I prefer when doing a digital art maybe you can start by copying this technique and then develop your own style.

For this art I'm gonna use Ian Somerhalder. Just a quick background about this artwork. I've been sick lately and I've been staying at home. So I have a lot of spare time and my girlfriend has lured me into her wierd vampire world and made me watch Vampire Diaries and now i'm addicted to Damon Salvatore (Ian) and I can't help myself to watch all of the episodes.
Okay enough with the vampire fantasy. Let's get started.

SETTING UP THE TOOLS

So first, set up your tools. Go to brush tools.

Then click the brush presets.

Go to the shape dynamics then set the minimum diameter to 50%.

Then go to pen tool.

OUTLINES

And now you're ready to trace the shapes of the pictures. First we're gonna do the outline. So after you have traced all of the necessary lines, left click then choose "stroke path".

Then this will pop out just click ok.

So it will look like this.

SKIN

So we're gonna use the same process for all the colored layers. So first select the shape for the skin, make sure to close the shape.

Then click the color adjustments(IDK if that is the correct name for it.)

Click "solid colors".

Then choose the color that you prefer.

So It will look like this. I know it looks funny and somewhat scary right now.

Add some some more layers for the skin. Just remember not to mix the other layers. Add one layer for every color.


















So the skin is finish.

LIPS

Next is the lips.

EYES

Next is the left eyes.













Then the right eye.

HAIR

Hair is my favorite part of this. Fist layer is the base color.

Second layer is the highlights. Make sure to follow the direction of the light.

I'm gonna add another lighter color.

Then a redish color on the right side of the hair since there is a redish light coming on that side.

SHIRT

Now the shirt I'm gonna do same process just remember where will be light coming from and where it is going to darker. On this case the light is coming from the left side and it is darker on the right side.

FINISHING DETAILS

I just want to make it simple for the eyebrows so just made one layer for it.

Next is the beard i just colored it black then lower down the opacity.

Finally is the background. I highly suggest to choose the correct background color that will compliment to the color of the subject.

So there you have it. I hope you will get some tips and learn some new techniques on this tutorial and maybe you'll post a similar tutorial to this with a new style of your own. Follow me guys if you want to see more of this in the future.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING AND SUPPORTING MY POST

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