Good evening.
Today I felt like drawing, something that I really like to capture in my art: the space, the stars, the moon, I wanted to make a portrait with a rustic texture simulating a little real paint, accompanied by a color palette quite varied where I mix blues, grays, pinks, yellow, orange and even green, and I wanted to draw many small stars around, also the stars with that effect a little sloppy to match the texture that I wanted to handle for the skin, I am very happy with this drawing as it was just as I imagined, in the center of the forehead at the end it occurred to me to draw a circle that later I started to modify with the finger tool and the funny thing was that this circle reminded me of a black hole, I loved it and decided to leave it, for this finish I worked 80% of the drawing with a chalk texture brush, try not to be so careful when mixing the colors to leave that textured finish I was looking for, I hope you like it.
Proceso/Process
I made my sketch and chose the colors, this time I wanted a skin with many tones as I felt it would be much better this mix of random colors along with the texture that I wanted to place to my drawing, I started painting the skin with a desaturated pink tone then I started adding more and more colors, creating lights and shadows with different tones, in a new layer I added more details to start then to mix all the colors leaving a soft skin but at the same time with very marked strokes, for the hair I also painted with the chalk texture brush, I had never used this brush for the hair but I liked it a lot, it was perfect because it followed the rhythm of all the paint, I put the hair in a dark and desaturated purple.
To add lights to the hair I used a medium blue color, with the brush in an opacity of 30% I started to create strokes following the shape of the fringe and the rest of the hair, I feel that this is one of the best hair I have painted in my life, I don't know why but it looks super cool the finish, in this drawing I wanted to use an opaque blue background and then I started to paint the little stars around, some of the stars I deformed them a little with the “finger” tool to make a little more messy effect, I painted a ring on the forehead with the same color of the stars and then I started to deform it also with the finger tool, finally it was like the shape of a black hole, I loved it, I added a layer of lights where I highlighted some parts of the face like the eyes, nose, chin and cheekbones, I finished my drawing editing the whole image giving it a little more depth and saturation.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro