The tears of the sea | Surrealism
Greetings again community, today I wanted to make a portrait with some surrealism, this time choosing the sea as inspiration, something that has always been difficult for me to draw is the sea and I had never painted a WAVE in my life, I decided to see some reference photos and try it since I liked the idea a lot, this surreal style is one of my favorites, although very rarely I can develop an idea, the truth is that I am not happy with the result despite the fact that I gave my best effort, this drawing happened for many changes and still it made my head hurt, it was a very difficult job but I guess someone would like it... or so I hope.
I made my sketch, the sketch you see below is modified since the original had branches that came out of the neck and above it there was a sun and below it a moon, as I progressed I left that idea behind, so I began to painting using very desaturated skin tones, I was going to give a soft texture to this face using the soft brush, but I ended up choosing an oil textured brush to give a little more rustic touch to the strokes, although it really is not very noticeable at least that you zoom in on the image, for her eyes I chose a blue color, this color would match the theme of the sea, I shaped these pretty eyes and added some shadows around them.
On her cheeks I drew some hearts and added volume by painting the edges with a light tone on the left side and a dark tone on the right side and thus creating a relief effect, I began to give more details to the face, adding lights.
Now it's time to paint the waves on his head, these waves were created using the same oil texture brush and mixing different shades of blue creating thick and thin lines with dark and light tones to give that realism effect, it was quite complicated , but I loved how the wave turned out, however I kept seeing the somewhat strange drawing, I also drew sea coming out of the hearts I drew on her cheeks and dripping out.
For the background I had an idea at first that I liked a lot but I ended up discarding that and other ideas, after a thousand attempts to make a decent background, I was finally able to choose to also make the sea under it, also adding the shadow of her face in the water and letting the drops of sea that come out of the heart fall into the sea that I place in the background.
I finally figured out what the problem was and it was that his head looked weird with that wave on top, but I loved how that wave had turned out, I put so much effort into it and didn't want to delete it, it occurred to me to duplicate it and modify it in the "transformation" settings ” to adapt this other wave on the other side of her head, under this new wave apply a little shadow, at the end I still didn't like it and I felt that the face looked too happy, it's supposed to be a little more serious his expression as in the sketch, so with the liquefy effect I modified his facial expression a little, now it looked a little better, finally I applied some color adjustments and finished the work.
It was not easy at all and more in these last days that I have felt quite discouraged, I had a very good idea in my head and I did not like the result at all, but something that I must highlight and that if it makes me happy is that for the first time I drew waves of the sea and they seemed quite beautiful, I hope you like it and have a nice day/night.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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Omg I love it
Thanks 🤗
Te quedó muy bien, pienso que todo artista está en constante búsqueda y el hecho de quedar insatisfecha por los resultados habla bien de ti, seguirás buscando y eso te hará cada día, mejor artista. Saludos.
Gracias! siempre que realizo una obra que no me gusta justamente me autoevaluo para hacerlo mejor la proxima vez, saludos 😁
Lo que dibujas es un tesoro
Aww muchisimas gracias 🙏🥰
Amazing! You are very talented! 😎