Anxiety
Good evening friends.
Although my style is based on semi realism, sometimes I feel that it is not enough and I remember a little of my beginnings and I try to focus on using those same techniques when I want to achieve a more realistic result, this time I was working on this portrait that has many of the elements that I like, I was not planning to add blood to my drawing, but this was and still is something very characteristic of my style and you don't know how I enjoy painting these red spots, although I still don't get the definitive formula to make blood more realistic, I loved the result of this drawing and it definitely represents many memories and feelings that I have kept deep inside me, I hope you like it.
In this drawing I used only the diffuse brush, since that was the only brush I used when I wanted realistic results, then, I made my sketch and chose the colors to work with, this time I wanted quite saturated skin tones so I went for oranges, beige and pinks, I applied the shadows, half tones and lights to then add another layer and apply many more colors to finish forming the whole face, then I took again the diffuse brush and started to mix all these shades until I left a soft skin, I gave a lot of details to the eyes to make them very real.
I continued detailing the face until I was satisfied with all the skin, I also painted the lips, neck, eyebrows and eyelashes, for the hair I used brown and made several strands of hair around it, then it occurred to me to paint blood, really this face was a perfect canvas for that, then I took orange and red and started to play with these two tones until I created lines that looked somewhat realistic, I added a layer of lights and started to highlight some parts of the face like the eyes, nose, lips, I finished editing the image very subtly since I really didn't need many changes.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
I thought it was a photo of someone crying- This is amazing artwork 🥹
https://x.com/AlienArtHive/status/1814398052439925017