Happy Monday community.
I am quite excited to share this drawing with you, as some of you may know sometimes I really like to play with some surrealism, this style of drawing has been quite difficult for me to develop but little by little I have been able to improve some things and expand a little more. my mind to what is not as logical as we always see it, I felt inspired to capture a bit of surrealism in my portrait today, so, I began to think of ideas that arose in various ways in my mind, but this was the I liked it the most, although a friend gave me another idea that has to do with cages, but I'll do it later, because I really liked that proposal too.
This time I wanted to reflect a cage that represents a prisoner mind that wants to be free, a broken face with a color contrast where a part of her breaks, for this opportunity I wanted to paint in a rustic way without being very careful, I liked it a lot because up close it has an oil effect.
Proceso/Process
I started my sketch with a clear idea of what I wanted, to paint, I chose desaturated skin tones combined with some pale blues, in a new layer I started to mix the tones using a brush with an oil texture and an opacity of 100%, i did this because I wanted her skin to not look totally smooth but rather textured, strong colors that pop without completely blending them.
I painted the crack on her face with a hard brush, at this point it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to lighten this part of the skin that is supposed to be "broken" so I lightened that part surrounding the crack, paint her eyebrows and eyelashes to then start painting the hair, for the hair I used a dark brown and to apply light paint with light brown, I painted the cage using dark brown too, in this part I wasn't very careful either because as I mentioned, I wanted a rustic and messy texture, add some light in the cage but without exaggerating too much, inside the cage put many silhouettes of small birds inside and outside with a black tone.
For the background I tried many base colors, I liked this pale blue so I started to paint this kind of sky, for this I used different shades of desaturated blue and white and painted with a chalk texture brush, giving many touches that resulted in a background similar to the sky but with the texture that I wanted to achieve, I drew small vertical lines with white and applied a motion blur thus creating the rain, I did this both in the background and on top of the entire image, finally I applied some color adjustments color, exposure, saturation and paint some light spots on the face.
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