Happy evening friends, it's been several days since I last drew, today I decided to do a black and white portrait, I wanted to do something simple but quite striking, I thought of stars and a storm, I really like these two elements, so I decided to unite them with this portrait, this time I wanted to leave some texture on the skin, to make the whole finish a little more rustic, I really liked how the hair was, lately I am using a different technique for the hair and I like it much more, normally I used a brush with hair texture to paint everything, now I do it with a hard brush and making each strand by myself, it looks a little more natural in my opinion, I hope you like it.
I made the sketch and placed a dark gray background to begin to paint with lighter gray tones the skin, I began to add each tone giving lights and shadows, I added a new layer where I added more lights and shadows to form much better the face, then I began to mix all the grays, thus creating a softer skin but maintaining texture, for this I continue painting always with the hard texture brush, but lowering the opacity to not leave so marked strokes.
As I mentioned, for the hair I also used the hard brush, placing a light gray as a base and then I started to paint with darker grays and whites to give movement to the hair, I also drew an aureole and hanging from it some lines that at the end have stars, for the background I used a brush with a cloud texture and started to paint using different shades of gray, then I drew some rays in the background to continue adding a layer of lights, where I started to illuminate the stars, the rays and some areas of the face that I wanted to highlight, I finished editing a little bit the image adding a little more contrast and darkness to the strokes.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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