Greetings to the whole community, today I will show you and explain a little about the process of this drawing that took me several days to finish and that I really fell in love with, for this drawing take references, reference number 1 is the photograph of a girl from Pinterest What I will leave here below, the second reference and inspiration is to paint with a technique that I saw long ago from the artist Elena Sai, in this technique she takes photos of references and takes the color palette of the photograph and applies them according to the composition, where would the light and shadow go, this was my case, it is a technique that I had not applied for a long time because obviously it is very complicated to be able to achieve a "realistic" result in both a digital and physical drawing, so I took the necessary time to create this work that will be part of a collection I hope that 4 more works that I will be doing these next few days, applying realism and some surrealism or fantasy in them, including flowers or feathers, is a project that I am doing in order to launch this collection on an NFT page that I wanted to enter for a long time and I am already part of it, that is why I make an effort in these last works to deliver and share quality works, unlike the original image I changed the size of his eyes and some features that are not exactly the same, I also changed his clothes, keeping the color since I really like the contrast of that tone with his hair, the flowers and leaves that I painted near his eye were perhaps what more difficult since I didn't know what tone to use, I chose to go for desaturated colors that would harmonize with the whole illustration, I hope you like the process and the final result.
Proceso/Process
We started with the sketch which I was fixing until I had a sketch where I could draw calmly, this part of the sketch is important to change those features that I wanted to highlight, for example her eyes that are bigger than the original ones in the photograph, continue with the mouth which is a little thicker and fleshier since I love lips like that, I draw some lines on the face as guides to know where the shadow would go, we start painting by subtracting some colors from the original photo and thus create this palette, in my case use those tones but lowering their saturation a bit so that they look more opaque and have a slightly more melancholic atmosphere, I put each tone in its place just to delimit where each one of them would go, without giving much detail, once these colors were located, I began to give the details in parts.
For this point I decided to remove the sketch and continue working without it, painting part by part, starting with the eyes, then the eyelids, the forehead, the cheeks, the chin, finally the nose and the lips, which in my opinion are the most difficult. of molding, so I spent a whole night shaping this face and the next day I continued with her dress, using shadows and lights to make some folds in her green dress, continue with her hair, at this point it goes without saying that it was difficult hahaha really everything was difficult I think I don't know what was worse, anyway... I did her hair with the same brush I used for the whole drawing which was the diffuse brush, I think this brush gives a pretty good texture and yes you change the size you can have incredible results, so yes, draw each hair hair by hair varying the color, the light, the shadow and the size of the brush to create these little hairs that brush against your forehead and each hair that is on your head, some parts without so many details because after all the hair does not look so defined in real life either.
Now we have to paint these flowers, first I had painted them in bright colors and I ended up erasing it because it didn't look good, plus I used a very strong and flat brush, that's how I lost 3 hours to just end up erasing the flowers and start from scratch haha , so I chose softer colors, continue with my soft brush and use a leaf brush to paint them as if they were flying from these petals and leaves that I drew, I also painted some peacock feathers, when these details were ready I just fixed small things that they needed adjustments, finish by giving the eyes more depth and a little more desaturation.
Final
The original image is 3300 x 3900 px in size, here I leave you a compressed one and also some close-up photos of the details of her face and hair that I really liked, I hope the quality doesn't look too bad so you can appreciate details better.
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