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hi everyone welcome back to a new video here on my channel as you can see i am working on a
portrait painting which is actually a commission this one is for a close friend of mine
and i've decided to share my process here on youtube so that's what you're seeing now that
we're painting the process that i took for this was i started off with a base layer for the skin
and the base layer that i've done for this wasn't actually a flat wash what i did instead
was i kind of took the paint that i had which was a skin color mixture that i've created and then
i take water as well and i kind of just mix those two together with varying ratios depending on the
area that i'm painting that way this initial layer i already have a very soft shading and i already
know where the dark areas are going to be in the painting especially the darkest areas because i
have gone over and shaded that with a pencil in my sketch so i just follow along with that
and then of course in some of the areas i take creative liberties to kind of darken some areas
and keep some areas light or even leave them out so that they stay as a highlight and once this is
all dry then i can go and add the different layers later on to add some shading like for example a
different or a darker shade of this color that i'm using for the skin as well as a purple tone and a
red tone to kind of give that skin color a little bit of depth so that it doesn't look just like one
shade of color looking a little bit dull so that is pretty much my process for the skin
for this painting i actually decided to abandon using the color black or some people might not
even say that black is a color but i just decided to not use black in this painting which i know
it's not really me i feel like i love black so much i love black ink so much and black
liner i just love how it gives that pop when it comes to my illustrations and i've been loving
artworks where they don't use line art and they don't use black as well and it gives it definitely
a softer look whereas i kind of prefer a little bit more contrast but i wanted to play around
this time and go outside my comfort zone i've been meaning to try out a softer look for my artworks
but have been scared because i always just say that it's not me like it's it's not my style
so this time around i'm gonna try and embrace that so instead of black i decided to use a very
dark purple and i've also actually used purple all throughout this painting to kind of give it
a harmonious look also kind of like a filter so the way that i used purple was for example
i used it as a replacement for the color black my friends don't actually have purple hair they
have black hair but for this painting i decided to use purple and then kind of just darken that
so it replaces black but i also use purple for the skin and i've also used purple as a mixing
color when it comes to for example the blue that i will eventually use in the painting and everywhere
else therefore it kind of makes everything a bit cohesive even though they are different colors
overall i do really like how this painting turned out
i think it's like the perfect combination of that softness that i was trying to achieve by
not using black but at the same time it still has like enough contrast
that and i still used line art that it kind of makes it pop the way that i want it to so i feel
like this is a pretty good balance and something that i might keep playing with in the future