This is going to be a pretty quick post as I'm sleepy but I just really wanted to get this one out. This was one of those WIPs I had last month. I only did the sketch and line art, but I never really moved forward with it.
The reference has since been in my Pinterest and only seen me paying attention to it today. It was a girl with brown hair in a yellow shirt surrounded by groves.
Drawing Girl in Yellow
I started drawing in the middle of the day, after a quick meeting I had for work. Just out of sheer curiosity, I started working on the hair first after doing the background. If I wasn't curious, I would have started with the face. But I thought that if the hair didn't turn out well, then this would be scrapped for another day.
I thought the hair looked OK enough, so I went on and painted the face. It was challenging because of the leaves' shadows hovering on her face. I initially went with a solid brown for those shadows and set the blending to multiply, but I didn't get the desired effect. In the end I colored over it with a solid black, then just changed the layer opacity. Not quite ingenious but it somewhat worked (albeit not nicely).
I'm not sure I liked how the blending on the skin turned out, so I'll probably fix it and update this post tomorrow when I try to polish it.
Details
- Device: Samsung Galaxy Note 10+
- Apps:
- MediBang Paint for Android
- Brushes: watercolor (at varying opacity settings); pencil (100% opacity); pen (100% opacity); blur
Notes
I was painting majority of this while watching episodes 3 through 5 of The Haunting of Bly Manor, and this time, I think I was a little braver. The distraction of having something to work on while half attentive to the show helped me curb my anxiety on the show.
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