Danny's crappy book of sketches

[Finnjamin]

Hey Dan, I did a quick paintover of two of your portraits to just demonstrate the kind of colour diversity you should be chasing. You're missing balance when it comes to skin tones, partly this is due to your using coloured backgrounds for colour studies, this throws off your whole perception of colour. So the first thing I did was desaturate the whole image, then I used photoshops default swatches and a simple brush to make a transparent (but still skin coloured) patch over the whole face, from there I made very thin adjustments with very strong colours, letting them layer over each other and produce the result below:




It's a really fast method and you can adjust for shadow and light using the Multiply and Screen brush settings, or just your own judgement. I used judgement, but I encourage you to try the settings as well.

Also, good studies will be shown in context, ie. with their background/setting.