Good evening friends, today I wanted to practice again this kind of portraits with oil painting effect, it has been a long time since I did this because lately I have focused on making portraits with very soft textures, as I said before I like this kind of portraits with oil painting effect because it allows you to have a more free stroke, also today I wanted to use a different color palette than others I have used before with very desaturated purple tones almost reaching a gray tone, it was somewhat complicated to handle these colors because I think I had never used them this way, however, I liked the final result.
I made the sketch and chose the colors to work with, this time using desaturated browns and some purple tones also desaturated, I applied the lights and shadows on the face and then added another layer where I added more shades giving full shape to the face, in another layer I began to mix the colors using a brush with oil texture and giving strokes without much care to maintain the texture on the face, but at the same time leaving it well defined, I used a dark purple desaturated background and then I started to paint the hair.
Then I added light reflections to the hair to give it shape, after the face was completely ready I started to play a little with the oil brush giving textures to the background mixing it with the skin, I finished the drawing editing the image increasing the contrast and saturation a little bit.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro