Feeling red
Good evening!
I hope you are feeling well and have a nice start of the week.
Today, for my part I want to share this drawing that I really liked, I wanted to return a little to my origins, portraits with a dark touch, because despite being a theme that I really like and I identify myself with it, I have left it a little, when you learn new things you like to vary and try a little of everything, It has been a very interesting artistic process that I have gone through and that I will continue to go through, because inside me I feel the need to learn different techniques and styles, however, I will always like the type of art I started with and from time to time it is good to go back there, although nowadays I don't make portraits as realistic as the ones I did before, I like that I still keep a little bit of realism in some details like the eyes, this time my muse was the red color with some very subtle blue shades, a portrait with blood that I had a hard time painting, it seems easy but it is not, if you don't draw it decently “well” the blood ends up being superimposed lines that don't look real, it was not perfect, but I liked it a lot and even so I am very happy with the result, I hope you like it.
I made the sketch of a face quite close, I wanted to highlight a lot the eyes, I tried to make them big but at the same time proportionate, I did not want to exaggerate so much this time, I chose the color palette to work with that in this case would be red, purple, brown and especially pink, this time the skin tone was pink to match later with the background that I wanted to place that in this case would be a red tone, I applied the colors all over the face letting see the lights and shadows and in a new layer I added more colors to finish forming the whole face, I started to mix the colors with a diffuse brush to leave a soft texture, this time the lips were quite difficult to paint for me, I don't know why but I was quite complicated this issue, I started to add color to the hair in this case a very dark blue tone and desaturated, almost reaching a gray.
I wasn't sure if I should paint the blood or not, I felt that maybe it wouldn't look good, but I did the test on a new layer and after shaping it for a while I liked it and I preferred to leave it, I started to shape the hair with lights and shadows, I added different tones, for the lights light blue and one almost white and for the shadows black and in the corners dark red.
I painted the background a strong red and then I added a darker red on the top, I thought of adding some piercings just because I like it a lot and I feel it gave more aesthetics to my drawing, then I added a layer of lights where I started to illuminate the eyes, nose and mouth, also adding some small points of light in the blood to make it look more juicy, I finished my work editing the image increasing a little the intensity of the colors and lowering the exposure a 10%
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
Oh wow. It looks like you aren't kidding. This one resembles your face 👀.
Really? hahaha well, I should do a makeup like this and compare 🤣
Haha that would bring some clarity.
Definitivamente la originalidad del arte se encuentra en las raíces del artista, es un dibujo digno de aprecir artisticamente felicidades.
Muchisimas gracias @limaescritora
Excelente trabajo Alexa, fan de la manera en la que mezclas los colores y le das unos acabados tan suaves y prolijos a tus ilustraciones.