Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a woman sinking in water, digitally.
I'm using Procreate but you can follow along with any digital program, really.
I created a screen size document,
select a blue and the hard blend brush,
which is within the airbrushing menu.
This image will be for the illustrated novel I'm working on.
We drew the line of the surface of the water, now a circle for the head
and the torso.
Then the lower body, a line for the legs and the arms.
Very sketchy!
I'm improvising as I go,
I didn't really work out the pose and all the details beforehand,
this leg is way too long!
and I want the upper part of the body including the head to bend more,
so we redraw it, lower.
The head should be a little bit larger,
like this...
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I'll move this right leg a little bit lower,
and see how it looks.
You know, I will bend it even a little bit lower.
And by the way the long version of this tutorial is in my Patreon account,
you can find it with the link below.
If we go to actions and canvas, we can flip the image horizontally to check it out,
by looking at it from a new angle, we can find mistakes easily.
We go back to normal and then I will actually flip it vertically, to be able to draw the face better
in a more usual position.
Let's select the face because I want to pull it out slightly and lower,
to get a better proportion.
Good!
we flip it around again and I will also extend the leg at the knee, a little.
Now on a new layer we choose a color for the skin,
and begin painting her.
Remember that she's under water,
that is why the color is a bit grayish or bluish.
You know to make it more dramatic
I want to twist the upper body a little bit more,
so we select it, including the head and we rotate it slightly.
Good!
and we give a color to the background,
a blue, a bit turquoise.
On a new layer let's paint her dress,
for this we choose a medium grey.
Do you remember how the skin used to look very grayish?
well now that we added this blue to the background, now all of a sudden it looks very pink-orange,
so let's adjust that and make it more bluish gray again,
this is in the adjustments button on the top menu and then color balance.
Alright! let's create a new layer to draw the hair, on it.
It should be flowing up as she sinks,
and don't worry, in the novel a prince will come and save her just in time! [laughter].
Now on a new layer let's create some lights,
some caustic lights.
I'll color-pick the flesh and then make it a little bit darker for the shading,
I think in this way the lights will contrast more.
Let's flip her around to draw her features, more carefully.
Ok, good! now on a new layer we will draw the surface of the Sea,
which is going to be very wavy; a dangerous ocean! [laughter].
And we can create the texture like this
with blues of different tonalities, zigzagging, or with strange patterns darker and lighter.
And some reflections.
With a very light blue and a soft airbrush, we create a luminosity up here.
And we go back to the hard blend brush to keep painting the wave
I love drawing so much!
every drawing is a challenge and I love that!
Let's darken this area...
and then draw the foam or bubbles up here,
from the splash that goes inside the water.
Actually for the bubbles let's do it even lighter
and with a spray paint brush.
Good!
let's go back to the soft airbrush
and with this darken the bottom of the Ocean
as it should be.
Let's add some sunbeams
and if you got all the way to this point, I would love to know it!
please in the comments write me the secret code:
"Let's go to the rescue!" [laughter].
We give it the last touches and it's ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo