Here’s a look at the detail in the eyes that you will have at the end of this lesson on painting a realistic portrait. Painting a Realistic Portrait: Checking your Values For the next part of this tutorial on painting a realistic portrait, we’re going to look at color values. First, create a Black and …
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Here’s the final image for this lesson on how to paint realistically. Notice how the background and face coloring is all starting to come together now. How to Paint Realistically: Defining the Background Ready to learn more about how to paint realistically? Up until now, the background has been left fairly rough, but you’re going to …
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Here’s a look at the finished image for this lesson on skin color values in Photoshop. Using North Light in Your Portrait Work If you are familiar with traditional painting you have heard of the concept of using North Light in your works. To explain this term, classically trained painters use a high, north facing …
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Here is the final image for this lesson series on digital portrait painting techniques. Digital Portrait Painting Techniques: Squinting to see Value Ready for some more professional digital portrait painting techniques? In order to see the larger values in your works more clearly, you can squint your eyes. This is going to allow less light …
How to Paint a Pin up Girl in Photoshop: Detailing the Head Ready to learn more about how to paint a pin up girl in Photoshop? It’s time to start adding in more of the finer details to this coloring job. Start off by adding a little shadow between the hair and the skin with …
Start Painting the Lighter Skin Tone Ready to learn more about how to paint skin in Photoshop? In the original sketch, there was some lighting information, and if you are coloring someone else’s line work you should take note of where the original artist was thinking to put the light source so that you can …
Painting a Pin up Girl: Continue to Add Shading Ready to learn more about painting a pin up girl? Start off by adding some highlights to the eyes, and then continue to add in additional shading on the figure where it would naturally occur. Some of the shaded areas are clearly defined by having shadow …
Selecting Color on the Fly! For the next part of our course, we’re going to concentrate on painting tonal values.So, let’s continue working on the skin tone. Notice that the color is constantly being selected and changed by holding down the ALT key.At the same time, we’re using the brush tool with the eyedropper tool to select …
Ready to learn more about painting pin-up figures? At this point in our tutorial, the drawing is almost finished, but we’ll take some time to just go over it one last time and see what can be applied to push it even further. Adding Detail to the Water Add some additional light tones into the …
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How to Paint Pin up Style: Coloring the Starfish Want to know more about how to paint pin up style? First, select a red color and then use the exact same painting technique that you’ve been using throughout this entire series to color in the starfish. This is the last thing to color before you’ll move …