Hello, I’m Barbara.
Today We’ll be painting an easy face.
I’ll be using the Wacom Intuous Tablet, and Artrage Lite.
On my first layer, I’m going to sketch with the pencil tool.
I’m drawing two guidelines that indicate the middle of the face in both directions.
The eyes are located right in the middle, and the bottom of the nose is half way between
the chin and the eyes.
Next I’ll add a layer and pick a skin color.
I am choosing a hue between red and orange, and selecting a tone in the light area where
some grey is mixed in.
I have the brush tool selected as I begin to paint the face.
We’ll switch colors here and add to the cheeks.
I’ll use a light color to add some highlights, and then a darker color for shadow.
Now I’ll merge the sketch layer down onto our paint layer.
I’m going to shrink my tool tip and start to do some outlining.
I’ll add some detail to the eyes at the same time, and then clean up with the eraser.
Let’s bring our tool tip back up to 100%, and fill in the hair and shirt.
The background is the only white space left, so lets bring a new layer below and cover
the whole space with the paint brush.
I’m using a few different shades of green here.
I’ll select the pallet knife tool now and, using the ‘just blend color’ preset, I’ll
start to soften the background.
I’m going to bring my tool tip down to 9% now and add more detail to the face.
Then I’ll use the pallet knife again, and soften some of the strokes on the face, just
like I did with the background.
This eliminates some of my sketch lines at the same time.
I’ll switch back to my brush, with a small tool tip, and add some more color and definition.
Outlining the subject and the eyes gives a stronger expression.
Next let’s use a large tool tip, and because I feel like it, I’ll add some blue to the
hair.
Go ahead and play with some other colors.
Finally, I’m going to use the color sampler to copy the color of the background and add
it to the eyes.
And I think we’re done.
I hope this has helped, and thanks so much for watching.