The Raven's Soul
Hi guys! I hope you are doing well, for my part I have had some very complicated days, but I continue doing what I like the most and that helps me to drain a little bit the stress of the day to day, today my mood was black and white so I decided to make a portrait with this rustic style and in black and white to make it a little more dramatic, something that was out of the sketch and that occurred to me at the time for this drawing was to make this kind of broken skin effect, it all came by accident, by making a dark line badly giving shadow to the wing, it occurred to me to add this small but significant detail that makes me think that this wing is just part of the raven that is coming out inside her, the truth is that I love these drawings in black and white because I can handle a little easier the lights and shadows, I hope you like it!
At first I didn't like this idea because I felt that the wing coming out of the eye looked quite weird, but I decided to trust the process and thought that after adding the colors it would look much better, so I started to paint, placing first a background less flashy than white to be able to see better what I was doing, then I applied this grayscale on the face creating just the shape of the face, in a new layer I added many more shades of this range of grays to give it a better shape, I continued in another layer mixing the colors to give that softness to the skin, for the wing I used a quite dark gray almost reaching the black tone and I added highlights with light gray and a low opacity.
I finished defining the face and torso, then I started to paint the hair, for the hair I used a dark gray but without being so dark, then I painted some reflections that would give that movement to the hair, I added shadow on the edge that joins the wing with the face and at this point was where I made a somewhat careless stroke and by accident came out a somewhat strange circle around the wing, I was going to erase it until I realized that it looked like a broken skin effect and decided to add a new layer where I would paint more cracks giving this illusion, as I wanted to have this oil effect in some parts, I began to paint the edges of the drawing and the background with a brush of this texture, mixing the background with the skin and in a low opacity brush to look quite rustic and with the texture I wanted, finally I applied some details of light on the face.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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The vibrational effect you depicted is really nice with the grayscale. Another fantastic piece you've made 💖
Thanks alot 💓
Its godlike! how skillfully you depicted strands of hair, and facial features, as well as shadows that further emphasize them. Great job, thanks for sharing! Massive respect!
Thank you so much! 💝
This is gorgeous @alexa.art and I love the black and white and greys truly inspiring.
Thanks! 💗
Gracias por el apoyo!