A few days ago it was the day of the dead, I wanted to do something that was inspired by that day, but I had very little free time, luckily today I was able to finish my idea and it is a drawing inspired by a catrina, I love catrinas because they are colorful and full of a lot of decoration, it is definitely art, but they also represent death in a rather peculiar way.
For this drawing I used blue and red tones, red was a color that emerged in the process and that I ended up liking very much mixed with the color palette that I chose for my portrait.
Proceso/Process
I made the sketch, this pose was a bit complicated for me, at first I thought to make him other clothes, but finally I chose to put a dark suit on him, I started painting with desaturated blue and gray tones, for his eyes I used a fairly strong blue and his lips a red live.
In a new layer I began to paint mixing the tones to create her face, then I painted her outfit black and for her hair I chose a light brown.
I started to give life to the hair applying shadows and lights, paint some catrina decorations on her face, for the background use the help of the AI and create a background full of flowers, put some black roses on her head, add some butterflies around her and her hair, then apply a bit of light to some parts of the drawing using light red and white, making the most important things stand out.
Although it was a drawing that I did quickly without many details, I liked it a lot, a little late for the celebration but the catrinas never go out of style.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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