Shades of pain
Hello everybody!
Since a couple of weeks ago I had not had enough time to do a free drawing, something that made me feel good and represent as an artist, those drawings I started with a long time ago but this time I wanted to experiment something new, I have seen many illustrations that play with colors that you would never think of combining and in the end give a wonderful result, in other opportunities I have done drawings with mixtures of different colors and I have always liked them, however, it is not something I can still do every day (although I would like to) because it is quite complicated to understand how and which colors to use correctly to give lights and shadows, today I have used red, orange, green, blue, pink and even brown, my 4 years ago self would think it would be impossible to make a drawing with these tones but today I have achieved it and I liked it very much, this drawing transmits me pain and nostalgia in spite of having vibrant colors that normally we associate with positive feelings and that is where I find the most interesting of all this work, I hope you like it as much as I liked it.
This time I made the sketch of a face looking from the front, I started filling the skin with a pink tone and then I added shadows and lights using different combinations in which we can see: blues, greens, oranges, pinks and browns, in a new layer I added more colors to finish forming the whole face, then I started to mix everything using a chalk texture brush and an opacity of 50% because I wanted to keep enough texture and give that effect of oil or pastels.
For the hair I used a dark brown, then I added highlights with red and blue, I didn't really detail too much the hair since this drawing had to have a lot of rustic and scruffy texture, for the background I used the same colors of the skin, giving brush strokes with the chalk texture brush, I wanted to paint blood coming out of the nose and going all over the lip, this is something I always like to add to my drawings and with this color palette I thought it was very interesting to try it, then I added highlights in the eyes, nose, lips, chin and tear, finally I edited the image, this time I wanted to increase even more the saturation and give more depth to the colors.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
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