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| This is part 2 of the Realistic Painting in Photoshop, where we'll be creating the eyes and the hair |
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Shade the sclerae (the whites) as you normally would. They should be on their own layer. Now make a new layer above the sclera and iris ones. I usually name it 'extra eye' or similar. This layer is goin to be for the details in the eyelids, the creases in the corners of the eye, the highlights of the iris etc. The eyes really come alive when you're done with this layer. |
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Now that the eyes have a bit more definition, we can move on to the iris. After we're done with that, we can continue adding to the extra eye laer. The reason we do the iris first is because once it's done, it makes it easier to add the details around it as it's beginning to look more like a the finished product. |
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Once we're finished with the iris layer, we can begin to add extra details to the eyelids on our extra eye layer. Leave the eyelashes until you have all the creases and shading done, as it's easier to shade now than after the lashes are done. |
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The only real advice i can give about painting eyelashes is to use quick fluid strokesfrom the eyelid outwards. Stick as close to the reference as you can, and use the eyedropper tool a lot - There are lots o different shades in lashes as they catch the light in many different ways. |
| Make them thicker than you'd expect them to look, it's very easy to make eyelashes look unnatural by making them too thin. Female eyelashes are generally easier to do as they tend to be thicker and clump more due to mascara. Painting them is really something that takes practise. Don't forget the highlights on them and the subtle shadows underneath! I've also added to the small creases under her eyes. See what I mean about coming alive? Try hiding the extra eye layer and see what you're left with. For now, we're just about done with this area. |
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It's easier to turn your sketch layer back on while doing the hair. Don't worry about the dges for now, we'll sort those out later. Just make sure you get the basic shades in for now. Use a smilar method that you used for the eyelashes - qucik fluid strokes for the roots outwards. Use a fairly low opacity brush, around 10-15%. Once you have the basic shades down, you can go ahead and make your brush slightly smaller and put some individual strands in, of a lighter color (as you can see in the example on the left). Not too many though, or it'll look artificial. It's easy to go too far. Keep it subtle. Don't worry too much about sticking to the reference, as long as you have the shades in roughly the correct places. Use the eye dropper tool often! |
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| The one on the right is the result of creating more strands with a smaller, higher opacity brush. It might not look like much of a change, but these details all together make all the difference. Now before we tidy up the edges, there's one last thing we can do to the hair to make it look more natural. At the moment it still looks very much painted. |
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Use the eyedropper tool to pick one of the highlight shades, and in that area ( with a brush about the same size as the green circle ,at about 2% opacity) do yet another quick, fluid stroke downwards. Don't do this everywhere. but on selected areas. You can also do it with darker shades. It will give the hair more of a clumped look without making the strands visible. |
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| See how much softer it looks now? That's the hair almost finished. The next step, before the eyebrows, is to tidy up the edges of the hair and face ( you can leave it to the very last ifyou like, but I prefer to do it now). Now take a low opacity eraser (about 5%), zoom right in and simply erase everything outside of your sketch layer with smoothe strokes. The reason we use a low opacity eraser is because we don't want the edges to look sharp and unnatural. |
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Here's the hair completely finished (apart form the eyebrows). Adding small random strands? This makes the hair look much more natural, and helps it belnd into the background a little. I've also added some into the main body of the hair to give it a bit more depth and definition. Now we're nearly done - Just the eyebrows, clothes and final touch-ups to go!
The eyebrows are really simple to do once you've got the hang of hair. Take the snippet of reference you used for the eyes and turn the layer back on (unless you deleted it or it didn't include the eyebrows. If so just copy and paste it back). use the same kind of strokes you used for the hair, and when you're done, go around the edges with a low opacity eraser to blend them to the skin. |
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Now we can move on to the clothes, which shouldn't be too difficult as the reference doesn't show much clothing. And if you've come this far, some simple shading shouldn't be a problem! |
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Shade it with a low opacity brush, as you did the skin. As the clothing is on a layer under the hair, you don't have to worry about being neat. Most of the messy shading will remain under the hair, unseen.
Now You're just about done! But before you can show your new art work off to the world, give it a last check over to make sure you haven't missed anything. Move your eyes between the two images and see if you can notice any major differences. I often miss mistakes because I'm too eager to be finished with a piece, and have to go back later to correct. Have you missed any important highlights or shades? Forgotten to blend somewhere, or simply don't like an area? Don't be afraid to correct.
I hoped this tutorial helped, and good luck with your paintings! |
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