Drawing Challenge#9 - Lighted Girl

I started with a - very rough sketch - on paper.

Please excuse the poor proportions... I had to fixed many of them during the linework.😣

I made - a LOT of - changes to the initial rough sketch in this phase.

I wasn’t quite happy with the proportions and also the hair bothered me.😥

Therefore I pretty much fixed everything - I didn't like - during this phase.

Here I blocked in the base colours.

I chose to seperate the girl and the background into two different layers, as the light effects would be the main focus of the painting.

Little did I know - at this point, as I had to add many more … later on.😅

Over to the face…

I used a very soft brush for painting the skin in coop with the "airbrush" feature, in order to create a smooth surface. For the finishing touches - I also applied the filter "gaussian blur”.

For the eyes I chose a pink colour, as I wanted them to be piercing bright.😉

So - now to the hair.

First I started with a large soft brush by shading in different sections of hair.

Then I continued with a smaller soft brush and added more defined shadows with a darker colour.

After that I added some highlights with a textured-painting-brush.

I wanted to keep her sweater very simple.

Therefore I just shaded with darker colours, in order to give it a 3-dimensional feeling.