A STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL ON HOW TO CREATE A GOOD PORTRAIT

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AN ARTWORK FOR ewuoso@ewuoso

ewuoso@ewuoso is my mentor here on steemit@steemit. He's always advising me and encouraging me to be myself and be original. He has always warned me about plagiarism. In previous posts i have been uploading my art work but he asked me to put up a tutorial instead of just the artwork that way people will interact with me more.

I appreciate the fact that he dedicates his time to minnows and always try to put us through so i am dedicating this artwork to him.

He's a goal getter, intelligent,farmer, and above all a giver.

Though it was hard at first; doing the drawing and then writing the tutorials, the reason God gave me this ability has been pulling me through every step of it, and I think am getting better everyday.

So today, I will break everything down from how I started to how I finished bit by bit. My goal is to make people on steemit see what i am capable of and at the same time know how to create artworks with my tutorials.

This artwork is 100% original, it's took me 3days to put together the art and the drawing because of my tight schedule at work. It's stemmed from my passion to share my gifts to the world through this platform.

THE FINAL IMAGE

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THE ORIGINAL IMAGE

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TUTORIALS

STEP 1

GETTING STARTED

Open Adobe Photoshop with your PC, if you don't have it, you can download it, or buy the CS6 pack or CC at any computer shop outlet near you.

Click File>Open>select the image you want use

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Click okay.

Click Image>Adjustment>Hue/Saturation
Reduce it to -100.

Reasons: I prefer it in black and white so that you will be able to see the shades, midtone any tints clearly when you posterize it.

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Click Image>Adjustment>Posterize
Use level 7, for the posterize.

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*Save both d Original image and the posterized image.

STEP 2

Open Adobe illustrator in your PC.

Click File>Open>Select the original image.

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Click File>Place>Select the posterized image

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STEP 3

DRAWING THE FACE, NOSE, EAR AND NECK

-Make sure the posterized image is placed over the original image

-Trace every shapes you see there.

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-Start with tracing the midtone

Use this colors
Midtone-492e21
Tints-533425
Shade 1-40281c

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(Midtone is the skin color of the person).

-Trace the entire outline of the face, nose, neck and ear with the midtone color.

-Then trace the tints and shades.

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*This is how it should look when you are through.

STEP 4

DRAWING THE LIPS

-Pick a midtone color same as you did for the face (Use the same midtone color of the face)
-Then trace over the shape of the lip.

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*This is the outlines of the tracing i made for the lip.

-Do the same for the shades and tints (Use the color of tint and shade of that of the face) of the lip.

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This is how its should look when your through.

STEP 5

DRAWING THE SPECTACLE

Trace the outline from the posterized image.

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For the tint of the glass, use this color:#161616

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*I will show you how to draw a transparent glass in the next tutorial.

STEP 6

DRAWING THE EYEBROWS

-Follow the outline from the posterized image.

  • It doesn't have to be that real, but its should look like an eyebrow, though you can still play with it.

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This is how i drew mine, yours could be different.

STEP 7

DRAWING THE SHIRT

-Follow the outline from the posterized image and trace over it.

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This is how i did mine

STEP 8

DRAWING THE OUTLINES AND DETAILS ON THE FACE

This is not really important or necessary though, but its pops put the artwork.
Its also add finesse to your artwork.

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#291912 -Use this color for the outline of the nose, ear, mouth.

STEP 9

BACKGROUND

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I choose a solid color #FFFF00, you can try any other color or design, but let it pop out the image.

If you love the art, and have learned from the tutorial, do well to upvote and Resteem for others to learn too.

You can send in your questions, suggestions and ideas by clicking on the "reply" button.

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EVERY STEEMIAN, A PORTRAIT

This is my way of giving out to every Steemian that I come across in this community. It's an opportunity for me to improved in my ability with the space steemit@steemit has given me.

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