Good evening!!!

I greet you again my dear community. Tonight I present to you a new portrait that I made today, which I baptized with my name, that is, Emperatriz. 😋😋😋

It is a portrait that I made with a touch of fantasy, trying to go back to my origins but also with a touch of what I am doing lately. I could say it's a combination of what I was doing with what I've been doing nowadays. 🤔

I don't do a lot of portraits as I want to one day work for the video game industry. Therefore, I need to learn how to do #Conceptart and character creation. That's why portraits are something I kept putting aside, although lately I've been taking them up again little by little. But the truth is that I don't feel so "identified" so to speak when I do them. It's not that I have a problem or that I don't like them, but I would like to make them more hyper mega realistic and with something more creative.... However, my level doesn't allow me to get to that point, so I get a little frustrated and that's why I didn't make them as often.

But with what I'm gaining lately... thing I'm not complaining 😁😘, quite the opposite... I'm grateful, since no one is obliged to give me money for my art and if someone does, for very little or a lot, I'm completely grateful forever 😍💕😘. But referring to the time-earning ratio issue, it's not rewarding, 🫲🏻🥺🫱🏻 since I spend a lot of time to create my characters or illustrations. But well... I think I'll settle for portraits for now, although on one hand that's good, as I get to practice and get better at creating portraits. 🤭😁👌🏻

Getting back to the topic at hand lol.🤭🤭🤭
When I started this portrait, I wanted to do it in #Corelpainter, but I had some problems. Actually, I have mixed feelings about that software because it's not bad, it's very good because of the natural effects it emulates. You can adjust a lot of things, but it has some details. It doesn't have autosave like Ps does. I don't know what's wrong with it, but it seems to me that it's more cumbersome to use than Ps. It crashes sometimes and I don't think it's because of the PC. It's not that it's the eighth wonder, but it's a #Ryzen7. I usually open several programs at the same time and it works very well... With #Corelpainter, it has some lag and with some brushes it also happens. Well, also because the license I have is a bit old, from 2019. Maybe in the new versions they fixed that. If so, it's perfect 😘☺️🎉🎉🤭. I don't use it much, but maybe in some future I will upgrade. It's really good and the new versions have a lot of juicy features... UwU love it!!!

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Yeah, it's better here. I actually started this one pretty weird lol. A lot of blobs in a crazy way hahahaha. I spend time going through each of the brushes the #Corelpainter comes with. Still experimenting with them. For now, I like a couple of them, although since it closed on me and after a while it closed again out of nowhere, I continued it in Ps 🤭🤭🤭. I cheated, but I didn't want to take so long doing this. 🤫🤭

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As I progressed, I upgraded what I had and it already looked better. It actually did look more decent... Lately, I pretty much do everything on one layer, at least the character. I leave the background apart. It's like doing it in traditional and I don't worry if I painted on the layer that is the sketch or something else. I just go over it and that's it. I don't use eraser or go back 😛😛😛, except for some details that I do in a separate layer and then collapse them.

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After I had it somewhat finished, I got around to doing the other stuff. Ah, "fun fact", the clothing was pretty quick, something simple with a bit of transparency. I did this portrait like this because I was practicing for something I'm going to do. I usually do the golden armor and such, but this time I changed that, since it wasn't working for me like that. I did something darker, not so bright. So it was a way to figure out how I could do it 😆🤭🤭🤭🤭😝💪🏻.

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From this point on, I didn't have much to change. Just go about rendering and improving what I already had there. The face had some changes in this step. Yes, it seems to me that this is not a step by step to the letter. Sometimes it's different to explain it like this. Go watch the video 🤭🤭😛. and you follow me... hahaha no, but yes, the truth is that although it's pretty fast, it's not the same what I explain here and what you see in the video 😆. Just opinion 🤭.

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I hardly ever use soft brush. A lot of times I use my finger to do that smoothing on the brush overlay to enhance that. I wanted it to look a little less rustic 😝. There wasn't much left to finish my portrait.

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For the final touches I added the last details I needed. I placed some lights and stones on the head to give another color to it,
and that's all.

And well, I'm going to sleep now so I won't keep bugging you, I hope you have a nice and happy weekend and see you soon!!! 🤗💖😘😴😴😴