Hello beautiful community, lately I haven't uploaded drawings as often as I usually do because I've been working on quite delicate things that take at least 3 days, that's what happened with this portrait that, despite being a portrait with quite a close-up and one of those that I find quite easy to do, this one was quite complicated because I worked a lot on the details to create that realism that I like so much, besides painting hands is never an easy task, I think it's the most stressful of all, but I tried to take it easy because I had a lot of hope for the final result, I really loved it, I wanted to reflect nostalgia and a lot of power in the look, I hope you like it.
Proceso/Process
I started with the sketch, this time I wanted to integrate a bird to the portrait, I thought it would be something difficult because it is a portrait with so much approach, but I managed to place it in a corner covering part of the face, as if I was touching it, I added a new layer where I started to add colors to the face, I used a palette of warm desaturated tones, in a new layer I added more colors to completely form the face, then I began to mix these colors to give a better result to the skin, the same thing I did with the hands with the difference that this took me many more hours hahaha, but it was worth it, I think they were pretty decent.
I finished detailing the face and also the lips that I had not painted, then I painted the shoulders and the hair, I applied a brown base color on the hair and then I added light and shadow reflections to create more realism to the hair, I started painting the silhouette of the bird and a shadow underneath reflecting its silhouette on the skin of the portrait, then I applied more colors to the bird to gradually give details and create the complete shape of the bird, for the background I applied a simple brown color with gray tone, in the eyes I wanted to put a red tone to give even more drama to the look, besides painting some tears and freckles on the face, to finish, I edited the image where I added more saturation and intensity in some parts of the drawing.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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