Hello friends, after several days without drawing and giving my hands a little rest, today I decided to go back with a portrait in an oriental style, I like this style very much but I have never practiced it, I would like to make many more portraits like this with much more details, patterns, symbolisms and things that can represent the culture with my style and ideas maybe surrealistic or fantasy, for now I started with something simple, it was pretty cool to paint this work, because I used cold colors that I like a lot and at the same time I made a background that gives a different contrast, but at the same time, keeps that feeling of cold tones, I hope you like it.
I started my sketch and chose the colors to work with, this time I used quite cold and desaturated tones which are my favorite, in a new layer I added more colors to give the face a complete shape, I continued mixing all these colors to make a smooth skin, then I took care of the suit which I painted with a desaturated red.
I applied shadows on the clothes to create folds and give more realism to the fabric, I also added a red a little more saturated in the parts that I wanted to illuminate the suit, in the hair, I put a dark base tone is an almost black tone, it occurred to me to make this kind of locks of a gray tone, this was only a test but I liked it enough so I left it like that, I started to paint the wound in the eye making lines that look like claws, which I was giving more shape and depth in new layers playing a little with the Photoshop blending modes, I painted some horns coming out of the hair, I used desaturated red also for it.
For the background I thought of mixing some colors like orange and blue, making some parts desaturated and others a little more luminous, I painted some lines that would simulate this kind of small flames of fire around her and also some cherry blossoms out of focus to combine them with the background, finally I added a slight color adjustment to the whole drawing and some illuminations.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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