Pnate's Almost Daily Sketchbook

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Luk999 - Thanks man!

Some guy sketch


Went to Jana's Portrait Demo/Workshop today, it was sweeeet. I took some notes, I'll list some of the most notable things here. Nothing all that revolutionary in terms of technique, just pure skill 0_0 was awesome to see it in action.

-Started with a basic block of mid saturated color with a soft brush

-Established major planes catching light and major planes in shadow

-surprisingly fairly zoomed in most of the painting, started working on individual features one at a time at this point

-Would lasso areas and brush into them just to get a sharp edge in the right spot (ie, corners of mouth, nose, etc)

-used the "lighten" brush mode a couple times to add some reddish saturation to the forehead and nose

- explained that she likes to use the "saturation" brush mode sometimes to get the "white" of the eye right without changing the value (she did this for the eye in shadow and chose a mid gray)

-Noticed she changes brush modes about every 5-10 minutes or so. Most used: lighten, darken, overlay, multiply. Mostly used to add a flavor of color, add some quick shadows, or very slightly change the value

-Explained that she typically puts the eyelashes on a new layer on top, so she can paint in that area without worrying about messing them up.

-Nearing the end, put the face on a new layer by quickmasking it so she could detail the hair under it and not have to worry about messing up the face

-Added a photofilter nearing the end, changed the overall color temperature from warm to slightly coolish

-added some quick gradients of color on a multiply layer around the edges of the image to put more focus on the face