Current mood:

creative

Nose painting-- step by step
Here's the second step/second day of my personal comprehensive study of realism in the human face. I know Danee wanted to see how I did this so I've decided to post a step by step of me painting this next part.

First

We start out with our blank canvas... well blank with the other part we did yesterday. But as you can see, I've made space for our next part(where the nose should be), I've also continued the base color I've been using which is that pinky color you see taking up most of the canvas.

Step One

I begin by sketching the nose, making sure all the porportions are correct. Personally, I suck at porportions so they probably aren't %100 correct. I do each part of the face in a different layer on Photoshop, it's not necessary but I do it just in case my placement is wrong or something, or if I have to rotate/change the scale.

Step Two

Anyway, next fill in the nose with all the colors you expect to use and where you would put them. I don't even usually do this step but I guess it's a helpful start if anything. Don't worry about everything blending together just yet, we'll do taht later, this is about making sure we've picked the right colors for the shadows/highlights and midtones, etc.

Step Three

Here is where we start blending the colors together. Using the airbrush I've filled in all those rough edges with the color that's next to it. I've also added some other colors to help the picture along that I had originally forgotten.

Step Four(or 3 continued)

Keep going with the blending. You're going to see your mistakes along the way so here is where you'll need to fix them. Once you've created a good representation of a real nose with correct lighting and coloring you can move on to the last step.

Step Five

Here I've added the final touches in texturing. Texturing is hard. It took me a really long time to get any sort of hold on it. But basically you just have to look really closely and decide what sort of brush strokes and colors it's going to take you to achieve these little details that no one really notices. For the pores, I did a series of little dark circles layered with very light circles and then finally I touched them up with a textured brush and a very light aqua color which I find is a lot better than using plain white, becasue it makes everything stand out more.

Well I know that was very vague but I thought it'd be an interesting visual if anything.