Now, I want to share step by step my digital painting techniques. I want to make people portrait, I choose Vanessa Anne Hudgen. My concept is a woman who is enjoying the canary singing, on a warm afternoon. The title is "Melodic". I hope this digital painting tutorial will be useful. Finished version: Melodic
1. I make outline from my reference picture at the new layer (above background layer). You can see my reference picture here. No detail outline is needed.
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2. Make basic shape of the face, at the new layer, and place under the outline layer. I need the sharp edge, so I set the Brush Hardness: 100%.
3. You must choose shadow and highlight color, place in the new layer. Then, add some rough shadow (remember, each step, place it in the new layer, for facilitate when editing/ finishing). You can see my brush setting, here: Tutorial Basic Digital Painting, I always use that brush setting.
4. Make eyes and eyebrow. To make eyelash and eyebrow, I use this brush setting (F5): Shape dynamics, Control: pen pressure.
5. Add lips. I choose soft color here.
6. Add rough hair, no detail needed, this is just for basic hair shape.
7. Add face shadow and highlight.
8. Add hair shadow, I use "Charcoal brush", brush setting: Spacing 1%, Other dynamics: Opacity jitter & Flow jitter: Pen pressure.
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9. Add hair highlight.
10. Make the cloth and rough environment. I adding brush texture to make the scene more alive (press F5 > Texture). I don't want detail environment, but I want looks like blur in photography ^^v
11. Add bird and tree branch. I make Singing Canary, yellow color, so pretty.
12. Finishing touch, add highlight, with slightly yellow color (I want to make warm scene).
Hmm... The environment looks boring, so I will add bokeh, to make the scene more attractive.
13. To make a nice bokeh, I use this setting: Brush: Hardround Brush, Opacity: 10-20%, Spacing: big (100 - 150%), Scattering: Scatter: 1000%, Count: 1.
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And it's done...
Finish artwork: Here
Tools:
Adobe photoshop CS4
Genius Pen Tablet
Hope you like this painting tutorial, if you have any questions, comment or critique, write it in the comment.
Thanx for coming, enjoy :)
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