Hello friends, today I want to share a portrait that I did recently, this portrait I wanted to work with some realism and a lighting that I really like, the face covered almost entirely with shadows and a light reflecting in the middle of the face makes this portrait has in a way a greater impact and is something more melancholic, normally I do not like to work with warm tones but this time I chose a range of colors that is a little less saturated and that made me feel more comfortable, I hope you like it.
Proceso/Process
I was dying to work again with such a detailed portrait, it's been a long time since I was so dedicated to something because recently I've had hand problems, but since I've been feeling much better, I filled myself with patience and was happy to do this.
I chose a palette of warm tones with a lot of brown, beige and yellow desaturated tones, I used the diffuse brush to deposit the base colors and place the light and shadows, then I added another layer where I used a hard brush and started to fill each part with more tones that would give that realism to the skin and the illumination I was looking for, I started with the eyes, which I defined better the shape mixing the colors I had placed as base and then I painted the hair in dark brown and few highlights with a light brown desaturated.
I finished blending all the colors of the face giving it a soft texture, I wanted to add in the forehead a kind of crack with a brown color and then I added shadows and reddened a little the eyes and nose, then I added more light details and finally I edited the drawing but without exaggerating since I really liked how it looked, I just made a slight contrast adjustment.
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