Today I really wanted to make an effort in a drawing that I really liked because I was looking for a way to drain some negative feelings that I have had recently, it has been a little difficult these last days for me, I am suffering emotionally and physically, I have been suffering for several days with a horrible migraine and in spite of everything today I felt better, however, after finishing this drawing and being very happy with the result I started again this terrible pain in my head, I do not know if this pain is linked to the depression I have had these last weeks or just stress, I just know that this drawing represents me a lot right now. Many times I have commented here this kind of mood swings that I suffer but I feel that it is getting worse, lately I have many thoughts in my head and it is like hearing a thousand voices at the same time, I also feel sad, bored, sometimes I just want it to end soon, but there is a little person who depends on my existence.
And after this relief, I will tell you a little about the process for this portrait, it was not easy, I had to make many changes that delayed me a lot, but it was worth it because it was pretty good. I started with the sketch and then painted the face with pale skin tones and some areas a little more colorful where I used pinks and red, in a new layer I added more colors to the face to give it a better shape, but... There was something that was bothering me a lot and after analyzing a while I realized that I didn't like that the eyes were so far apart, that's why after giving a soft texture to the skin mixing the colors I decided to join all the layers of the skin, then select the eyes and brought them a little closer, this way it looked much better according to me.
I fixed the parts that had been cut and then I started to give more details to the skin, today I used mostly the diffuse brush, it's been a long time since I used it to mix the skin tones and I feel that this brush gives a touch of realism, I painted the hands and it occurred to me to turn them into a black color, I modified the exposure of the layer of hands and lowered it to give it that dark aspect, I painted the eyebrows and eyelashes and then I took care of the hair that in this opportunity would be red, but after experimenting a little I decided to make it gray, it looked much better in this color and besides it is a shade of hair that although I love it I use it very little.
And then I started to add shadows and reddish tones in areas such as the cheeks, nose and eyes, I couldn't miss the lights either so I applied some white dots in all the parts I wanted to highlight, I finished by making a slight color adjustment giving it a slightly more pink tone but without exaggerating.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
This is really beautiful
Thank u!
Este dibujo es increíble, transmite mucho sentimiento
Muchisimas gracias!