Girl portrait. Head Challenge #5

I keep on practicing heads and characters with digital painting. This time I wanted to try some wet brushes in adobe photoshop, and tried something new besides digital watercolors.

I first draw my sketch lines and general lines, including face shape, eyes, nose and lips. I also wanted to show the shape of the upper side of the body.

I use these rough lines just as a reference of the placing of the parts of the face.

I paint the colors without much detail, taking into account the lighter and darker parts of the face.

With the mixing brush, I mix the colors, so they can have soft transitions between one and other. I conserve the face lines, so I can paint in another layer and then just hide it.

I hid the layer with the lines of the face, and I conserved the layer of the outlines and the painting.

To finish, I colored the hair with two effects: Multiply and screen. In the background, I added some gradient colors with gray and blue.

I hope you enjoy my process. I really like comic style. Digital Painting had allow me to get closer to the professional details I want to achieve.

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