I am very happy to share with you today this drawing, because I liked it a lot, I think it takes me to remember a little bit my origins in portraits, where I really liked to paint blood on the faces, for this drawing took a couple of hours that were very worthwhile and that entertained me a lot because I wanted an almost flawless result, giving these semi realistic details and a skin with many details, I hope you like it.
For the sketch I had clear that I wanted something that had that touch of blood that I like to add in the portraits, however, I also handled the idea of putting other elements that in the end I discarded because visually they were a little in the way for me, so I decided to just make it simple but shocking, then I started to paint, I used a color palette quite saturated with orange and brown tones, first with the diffuse brush I placed the light tones on the left side and the darker ones on the right side, creating a new layer I added more colors that would finish giving the shape to the face completely, I began to mix these colors with a texture brush and then a diffuse brush to smooth a little the texture, I painted the hair with light brown and continued without painting the mouth because it was the most difficult part for me and I wanted to leave it almost last.
Finally I decided to paint the mouth, starting from the inside and then the teeth, tongue and lips, I gave more details to the face and gave shape to the eyebrows, I also painted the eyelashes and for the hair I added some light and dark brown highlights, I changed the background to a color similar to the palette I was using but in a very light tone, I liked how this light background made the face stand out, then I started to paint the blood using a light red to trace the blood lines that run from the nose to the tongue, then I created another layer where I started to highlight with a darker red to give more realism to the blood, the eyes were very nice but I thought of putting an eye in red and I loved how it looked, finally I added some highlights on the face to give it more life and a little color adjustment adding a little more saturation.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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