Good evening friends.
As you know those who follow my art, I like from time to time to do portraits in black and white, the reason I always explain, but basically is that I like to practice from time to time in grayscale plus the black and white portraits often convey more feelings than something in color, for example, nostalgia, sadness, even anger.
Painting in black and white is quite easy at least for me, it takes me much less time than a color drawing where I can last many hours, here, however, I only have to worry about placing the shadows and lights correctly using only a range of grays.
Although I would have also liked to do this portrait in color, because I feel it has enough potential to place many red tones that I like so much to highlight in the face, however, I am happy with the result, I hope you like it.
I made the sketch, I liked the idea of making a close up portrait without many details around, I just wanted to highlight the face, I started to color with grayscale using light grays, I filled the whole face adding lights and shadows, then in a new layer where I applied more grays to form the whole face, I added a new layer and started to mix all the tones leaving a softer skin but with some texture.
I painted under the face with black, as I mentioned I just wanted to highlight the face, then I painted the hair with dark gray, I added another layer to give more life to the hair, adding lights and shadows, then I added a layer where I darkened a little the area of the dark circles and inside the eyes, then I placed a layer of light where I highlighted the eyes, the tip of the nose and the lights on the lips, I finished editing the photo a little giving a little cooler tone to these grays.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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Hermoso, como todo lo que haces! Me gustan mucho los tonos en blanco y negro también. Siento que brindan mayor sobriedad a la obra. Felicitaciones!
Asi es! muchisimas gracias 🤍🖤
Es espectacular lo que eres capaz de crear, eres una persona muy inspiradora🖤
AWW Muchas gracias @sylregne
Wow amazing. The process are detailed and I like the light and your shading, how? I know how to create like that, keep it up artist
Thank you so much @celle 😁😁
Woooooo está hermoso!!!😍 Te felicito 🙌
Muchas gracias!!
Está increíble e inmediatamente llamó mi atención. Excelente.