Red Crayola

I was meaning to finally go through some of my WIPs, but I chose to start another work in the end. It's another portrait, although this time, instead of Pinterest, I chose a reference from Unsplash, a platform that offers free stock photos.

This digital painting is based off a portrait photograph by Sam Burriss. In the description Burriss made, he mentioned not finding paint anywhere, and hence used Crayola washable kids' paint. (For a second, I thought he literally melted crayons LMAO.)

There are a couple of reasons I chose the portrait photo by Burriss. First, it looked simple. It was a man with no clothes on and, most importantly, with short, crew cut-ish hair. Second, there is good balance to the shadows and lighting, and it'll make coloring a little more enjoyable. Finally, I like it because it's interesting.

I used to always have trouble painting liquid stuff. Water and any other colored liquids. The reference photo will give me good opportunity to practice, what with it having a paint element in it.

I used less layers than usual; the canvas size was 4000 by 5300 pixels. I felt like either MediBang or my phone would crash should I do the usual and create as many layers for each shade I make.

The sketches were once again drawn with the pencil tool, but for the first time in a while, I didn't use any other tools aside from it and the watercolor brush. I normally would use airbrush and blur somewhere.

Here's a GIF showing how the drawing progress went.