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Hello my name is Magdalena Prosowska
welcome to the ten minute tutorial
about painting lips. I am starting my
drawing from a very simple sketch and I
have a few photo references using a
software called quadrille to load
images as floating windows
on my desktop and I will keep them here
to look and understand the surface that I
need to paint. It's easy to imagine that
the chin is an oval and there is a
second bigger oval coming from the top
of the nostrils corner of the lips
and touching the chin oval. And those will be
treated as a separate shape so they will
have their own highlight
and their own shadow for the anatomy surrounding
the lips. Just starting with the lips
I will grab any of the brushes and paint
the lips around with the red.
I really want to achieve a very saturated, intense
red lips a very shiny surface.
But we'll start just with the shape of it and the
basic shading.
Here is the shadow that I said earlier
about those two ovals and I am
setting up those spaces right now
so we have a very strong highlight catching on
the top part of the chin and the skin
surrounding the mouth is an sphere
there are the highlights and shadow
catching here.
The corner of the lips will be much
brighter because they are directed to
the source of light and I will just fill
in the inside of the mouth
with dark color and just slightly show
up the teeth but I will not make them
white because they are in the shadow
so the teeth will be much much darker.
I really like the idea of a lips being so wet
and open so I will not
paint the line dividing them through the
hole but just leave the slight
connection at the very edge when the
lips are opening.
I'm darkening the shadow underneath
the lower lip, and I will flip the whole
canvas just to see if the lips look
symmetrical and I think everything looks okay
so I will just continue with the shading.
I turned off the sketch while ago.
I don't really need it any longer.
The rest is just the rendering of the
shadows and highlights on the surface.
I think I will raise the corners
of the lips to give her a broader smile
so she is not only blowing glitter
from her hands she also has this smile with
just the corners of her mouth.
I moved the reference photos to my other
screen so I can zoom in and focus on the details.
I am painting in some of the wrinkles
on the lips but not too many just slight
indication to make them feel more
realistic but not overdoing it.
I will add more of the wrinkles
with the reflection later you will see then it is
far enough the shadow doesn't need to be
painted everywhere and the highlighted
wrinkles will be enough to look really realistic.
Because my lips here that I am
painting are very reflective
I want to introduce as well the reflection on the
upper lip in the shadow area
so at the bottom part of it there is a reflection
of the lower lip and because it's a
reflected light and the surface that it
reflects from is already red
the reflected light will be more saturated
than the highlight on the lips.
It's not extremely visible
but it's something that I am thinking about
and I am adding the highlights and what I want
you to notice is that I am not using the
white color for the highlight but I went
for a warm color it's a warm yellow
and later I will grab the white color
and just put it on a few spots
and I recommend to avoid painting with a
pure white color because when mixed with
other colors it really does saturate them.
So this is the last step that I
will add white reflections
just in a few places but not paint the whole highlight
with the white color.
Just few final fixes and I am almost done.
with painting the lips.
It looks really nice so I will stop
right here and thank you so much
for watching the tutorial.
If you have any questions
just leave them in the comments
and I hope to see you soon. Have a great day!
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