tutorial portrait painting by italiener
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Painting the Portraitwith Photoshop
Digital Painting
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Painting the portraitin Photoshop
This small manual explains my painting
technique with Photoshop. I hope you findit helpful!
The main tools in Photoshop for digital
painting are:- brush tool
- smudge tool
- eraser- polygon lasso
You should also have a graph tablet. Im
using a Wacom Intuos and Im very happywith it! :-)
Lets take a picture of a nice girl (I lovebrown eyes and dark hair. Dark hair is
easier to paint... :-))
At first, I create outlines with a small redbrush. I think I dont have to tell you much
about that. Just create a new layer abovethe picture and reduce the transparency
of the original picture to... whatever you
like...
By the way: As a beginner I would not startwith curly hair and blond hair.
Brushes:
Before we start I have to tell you that Imusing a lot of custom brushes. The best
brushes Ive ever found are created by DanLuVisi. They helped me a lot to improve my
skills. You can download them here:
http://adonihs.deviantart.com/art/My-
Brush-Pack-895479
For the deviantArtists: Please FAV the brushset if you use it!
Creating the basics:
I always start to paint the face. For this Iuse a big round and very soft brush. Mystandard colors are:
Red comes later on:A natural skin color has also red tones, butfor this I use a separate layer with a darker
red and a soft light filter.
Basic brush settings:For the basic shapes I use the big soft brush
(Lighting brush, 00px) by Dan LuVisi. Just
as you can see in the screen.
I start with 00% opacity - so the layer hasno transparency anymore. I start with a
very bright color.
If the basic shape is done I reduce opacity
to 5 - 20%, flow to 20% and use a darkerskin color.
Small opacity and small flow provides a
very smooth gradient.
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A few minutes are gone and I have a basicprofile. Every part of the face is included
but very abstract at the moment. The face
looks a bit dark but I use very bright colorsonly at the end of my painting.
At this time I still use the same soft brush
but with a smaller radius.
Zoom out!!!Its important to view your work from a
distance. Never work all the time with
200% magnification! You want to lighten upthe nose at 200% magnification and think
well, looks great! but if you zoom out itcould look terrible because the bright nose
doesnt fit to the rest of your painting.
Glossy eyes:Dont forget a reflextion in the eyes. Eyesare wet and glossy so we need a little bit
reflection in it.
You can create the eyelashes with thesmudge tool. (Explanation on the next page
eyebrows)
Eyebrows:For eyebrows I use the smudge tool. In
Photoshop CS4 you can rotate (R) your
workspace. For me it is easier to paint fromtop to bottom so I rotate it until it feels
comfortable.
Brush settings for smudge eyebrows:- hard brush with px radius
- Threshold: 95 - 98%- Brush properties: active; size-jitter 0% ->
pen pressure
Put some red into it...Now I its time for me to put more red into
the skin color. For this I use a separatelayer. Im using soft light in my layer
properties. Just use a darker red tone likethis one:
If Im done with that I can merge bothlayers (face/body layer and red soft light
layer).
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Smudge it!The second step is to smudge the hair tothe outside. Again I am using a brush by
Dan LuVisi.
Take a look at: http://adonihs.deviantart.com/art/My-Brush-Pack-895479
I use his hair brush for my smudge tool.
Shadows:Do not forget to put shadow behind thehair. Otherwise you wont get a plastically
feeling!
At first I use a brown-tone for shadows.In the darker positions I use black. I do not
recomment to use only black for shadows.Otherwise your skin color looks dirty.
Hair - the details:
Which brush should I take for this screen?Correct! The hair brush by Dan LuVisi! ;-)
The only difference between the original
brush and my brush is the brushsettingfor offset (hopefully this is the right
translation). Ive turned it down to %.
I use this brush with low opacity/flow. Ofcourse you use the brush tool in this case
and not the smudge tool... you want topaint something and not to smudge...
Painting Hair:
At first, I create a basic shape (on a new
layer). This should be easy... :-)
Thin hair:Here you can see Im using very thin hair
(on a new layer!). Just take a normal hardbrush with dark color (brush tool). Normally
Im using a px hard brush with high flowand opacity.
Blur it!The hair Ive created previously before is
now blurred for more depth. To achievethis, click on filter -> blur - > gaussian blur.
I also erase some parts (big, soft eraser
with 0% opacity, 0% flow ) of my thinhair. I think it looks more realistic...
Highlight it!Now I create a new layer for the thin
highlighted white hair. Its a hard standard
brush with 80% opacity, 50% flow and pxradius. ...this takes time...
Use the white color for the whole hair
shape! If youre done, take a big soft eraserand erase (with 0% opacity for example)
the white hair from the darker parts - butnot completely!!
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Painting skin:
To create realistic skin we need some
pores. And again you can use one of Dansbruhes.
This time its his Texture brush.
Normally I use them in a radius of 0px.But this depends on your workspace size
(My standard workspace: 00 x 80 cm -
50dpi).
Create two new layers above your face/body layer. Use the Texture brush on one
layer with white color and with dark/brown color on the other layer. Just spray
everything full of small dots like you see iton the left side.
Do we need separate layers? Yes, its
better. Imagine you want to smudge
something in the face you would alsosmudge the dots and the result would be
ugly! :-)
Now erase it again - similar to the thinhair handling. Use a big soft brush with
medium opacity and flow until it looksrealistic. You can also try out the layer
filters soft light and overlay for yourskin pore layers.
In the next step we are creating big poresor birthmarks. Again, add a new layer and
create bigger dots on the skin. If you have
enough dots, erase them again! :-)
If you compare this image to the previously
one you recognize I have also lighten the
skin up a bit.
The final brillianceThe final step is amazing. It was a mere
chance! A few months ago I painted aportrait and selected the wrong tool. But
it exposed to be great for creating realistichair.
If youre done with hair painting you merge
all hair layers down to a single layer. Letsplay it safe: Please save your painting
before merging.
After that you select the burn tool andchoose the Texture layer brush by DanLuVisi (we will use this brush also for the
skin pores on the next page). Select afitting brush size like 0px.
Dont put the Exposure value too high.
The result looks like that.
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The face is done now. Integrating new elements:
To have a bigger challenge I do not want to create just a painting out of a picture. I want tointegrate new features which make the composition more individual and interesting. I wanted to
have a hand and interaction with something - at this time I didnt know what it would be. So I triedout some knives but it didnt fit to the rest of the painting - in my opinion :-). I had to think about
the great artwork of Mario Wibisono (http://raynkazuya.deviantart.com) and wanted to have a morefareast touch. So I decided to integrate a fan (hope its the right translation :-)) and some motives
which fit to asian/japanese style - I hope!
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I started to brainstorm elements regarding to Japan and I had to think of cherry blossom. I work
with a lot of layers so it is easy for me to change the color of a specific element. Mostly I use Hue/saturation (CTRL + U) for it. Now its time for some highlights...
Lights:
To have a dynamic and vivid painting we need lights. Here are the next steps for my light effects.
First I make the hair silhouette more bright. Im using a new layer with a big sound soft brush either
in standard filter mode or with the soft light filter. On the next page I created some ray of lights.I just take a hard brush and make some big dots on my new layer. Then I select the motion blur filter
and change the layer to overlay mode.The last four images: You can compare them. You see the difference, dont you?
Clothes:The clothes - lets say its some kind of kimono - consist of a few layers. First I created an abstract
shape with a bright and a dark color. Then I used the smudge tool to get this crinkled style (watchbelow) and changed the color into more black. In the next step I created a new layer (in overlaymode), took the dragon of my fan and placed it randomly on the kimono. I duplicated the dragonlayer four times and used the burn tool with small dots to get this glittering style.
Duplicated dragons of my fan
Overlay
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Written by Gerald Jelitto
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http://italiener.deviantart.com/
Thanks to Dan LuVisi for his brush pack.
Brush Pack: http://adonihs.deviantart.com/art/My-Brush-Pack-895479