OC PORTRAIT | BELLANERO (MAGAZINE COVER STYLE) + process material

Hello Hivean Folka.

I hope you're all doing alright and fine on this Saturday.

This was a labor of love for me. An absolute joy to work on.

As mentioned before, I had a stint with some meningitis and was gone for a while. I'm on the mend and feeling alright apart from some mild wheezy-ness and congestion.

Anyway, that's that.

PROCESS MATERIAL

Sketches

I don't know what to say either than that these are sketches... Oh wait!

I've been doing face studies and I've incorporated that into my process to help me get a hold on my inability to draw mature looking women.

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I added some hair and middle-value grey with a little darker gradation at the bottom.

I can't stress this enough, never paint over a 100% white as background.

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I then went on to apply the shadow values and gradually saturating and lowering the exposure. Once the shadows are done, I move on to the highlights but leave any reflective specular light until the very last moment.

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Now here's where I... "cheat". All the work up until this point has been done on my piece of trash Samsung. I then save the image as a flattened PSD and move on over to Clip Studio where I apply a gradient map on the skin. A color overlay will go over the eyes, hair clips, and the metal "choker".

We round the whole thing off with the reflective light.

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Tools:

• Samsung Tab SM-T805 (Ipad Pro Mini or a Wacom one in my wishlist)
• Ibis PainterX Android
• Infinite Painter Android
• Clip Studio Paint

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