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- [Josh] Hey everyone, what's up?
This is ergo.josh and welcome to my YouTube channel.
You already know that I'm drawing Billie Eilish again.
Guys, please help me.
She's forcing me to do this.
But this drawing is about 90% complete,
which is a good start for using blending modes.
This is a good technique for using monochromatic
and grayscale drawings but I'm sure you've heard about
using the color mode and how it's not really perfect
and it can make things kind of dull.
But I'm going to show you a cool trick today
to kind of combat that.
You're going to get a lot more inspiration
for your own colors and look like you actually
know color theory.
So, first, we're gonna work with a flat image
and then group and merge any layers.
Then, after that, we're gonna go ahead
and focus on the skin.
Oh, and before I go any further,
I had to record this twice and I'm not going to redraw this.
So I'm actually doing this as a voiceover.
So pardon me if it looks weird when my voice
doesn't really match up with what you're seeing.
Now, we see that she's got a pretty nice, peachy
kind of skin color here with some reds in the corners
and I'm gonna go ahead and trust my original
skin rendering here to guide me with how
I'm going to add the colors later on.
I'm also going to go ahead and guess the first color
and just use that.
Now, first off, we wanna go ahead
and make the brush very opaque and start coloring there.
I'm already noticing that this looks super bland and dead.
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It's okay to color the mouth but make sure
you avoid the eyes.
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Now, we notice she pretty much looks like a zombie.
Let's go ahead and alpha lock the layer and then use the
brush to play with that color.
Don't use the hue saturation and brightness slider
because that's not nearly as effective.
One thing to remember is that you need to use a darker color
than you see in the reference because that's just how
the color blending mode works.
Dark brown is looking really good and warm and lifelike
right now and let's just use it to add a good base value.
Now if you wanna find the original color,
just make the layer normal again and then color pick it
and fix the areas that you missed.
Make sure to also add skin under the hair at the top.
Often, the hair leaves skin showing.
So we really don't wanna forget that and have this
weird white area in the transition between the hair
and the skin.
Now, let's go ahead and alpha lock the color layer
and wow, that is a pretty big difference from the
real thing, isn't it?
Let's add some color to the lips and stay in the same layer
just to keep things easy and consistent.
Now, the lips look like a coral pink in the reference.
So, let's go ahead and pick a dark red.
This is coming out great, so let's go ahead
and fill the rest in.
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now, we aren't going for replicating the exact reference.
We're just trying to make it look real by adding
a practical color to the areas where the color changes.
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for the eyes, let's remember to make it a super light
shade of red.
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Let's pick a similar color for the lips
to use for the corner of the eyes
so that they're not super hot pink, just a nice,
soft, realistic one.
The eyes are light blue, so let's also find a blue color
to use for that.
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Now we're done and everything is looking
super over-saturated.
Let's make a new layer above the skin
and let's use it for adding variation to the skin tones.
Staying above the skin layer, let's make it a linear
burn mode and then, use a rich red color.
She's starting to actually look pretty realistic now,
don't you agree?
I can tell you, I can't tell you actually
why it looks better this way but,
I'm trying to stay in the center just to make it
a little bit more interesting.
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Now, let's make a new layer and set that layer
to color burn and then pick a red color for lightly adding
in some shadows.
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We don't need to be super perfect.
We can fix some areas later on.
So, don't worry.
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Let's set a new layer to overlay and start making the things
lighter that need to be lighter and add some highlights,
but not these super white ones we've already done,
just some subtle ones and put them everywhere
they need to be across the face.
It helps blend the colors that we've put down
before as well.
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I'm pretty happy with this so far.
I think the only things I need to fix are gonna be
after we do the little color grading trick later on.
Next, let's just go ahead and attack the hair.
First, let's group these layers so that we can stay
organized and call it face.
Now that we have a layer for the hair,
I'm noticing that there's some purples and some tans
and oranges and browns in the reference.
So let's go ahead and make that layer color mode
and start playing with it just like we did with the face.
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So, I'm back.
I hope you like the hair.
It's not as exact as I would like but I do enjoy the colors
a lot especially with the shirt.
The shirt is a lot more closer to the reference
than it used to be and it has this cool glow to it.
I think it's because I used a linear
light layer for that one.
The background is pink because of course, pink everything.
This is ergo.josh.
You're not on any other channel (laughs).
Now, for the secret sauce that I told you about
already before in another video,
it's the app called Ultralight.
Let's go ahead and export this and save it as a png
for the best experience in Ultralight.
We will bring it to the camera roll and then
open up Ultralight.
It's a great free app.
You can pick whatever you want but I could be super picky
and I take forever every single time when I do this.
So I will make a decision eventually and check back
with you guys soon.
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So, I finally picked the filter that I want.
I think I decided to go with something called Film 11.
I made a few changes to it.
You can too.
Have as much fun as you want.
I liked it because it feels nice and bright and warm
and it made everything fade out nicely on the edges.
It also has a retro look that I feel like Billie
seems to have a lot in her content whether it's her own
pictures or album covers.
One thing I did notice is that the eye lash
are these weird enemy eyelashes that show up in front
of the hair and that's not looking good at all.
So I'm gonna have to come back and fix those things
in Procreate, so let's go ahead and save this
to the camera roll, get inside Procreate,
and hide the reference.
Now, let's go ahead and import the photo
and fix up the details.
Let's work on the shadows, fix the eyelashes
and some parts of the messy hair.
And yeah, this is gonna take a while,
so I'll check back when I'm done.
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So, I'm done, guys.
I hope you enjoyed it and I hope, of course,
that it helped you out a lot.
Go out there and play with these blending modes
and let me know if you have other fun new coloring
techniques in the comments.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.
Peace.
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