Use edges and sharpness in portraits
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2014
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this was an amazing study. loved the fluidity of color, design and process. true..its never final. thanks a lot for putting this together.
Thank you! I'll try this. I'm used to work with line and I really want to get better with painterly sketches. :)
I love that someone is talking the viewer through!!
Beautiful - and a lot of great information. Thank you for this.
i learn a lot about how to color more efficiently and hand movements although i don't really have the habit of selecting and transforming the lines i just dig in until it fits well i guess it takes a lot of time too so i really got to put that into practice a lot
Really Fantastic explaination and demonstration here thanks for sharing! :)
This was amazing more from this guy please.
Impressive love your comments on the picture, it makes sense, you explain it brilliantly.
yes
I would really adore a tutorial on how to do a rough-and-tumble girl and a soft-featured man. What facial features indicate disposition and which ones specifically represent sex?
TL;DR: Don't worry very much about what gender the character is, if you keep their identity in the back of your mind it'll come through somewhat.
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While what Jean is correct generally (brows and cheekbones are more pronounced), gender/sex is not a fixed thing. I believe if you think of the character as female/male, you can give them whatever qualities you like and they'll still look somewhat like the gender you wished for them. There will always be someone telling you that the character is too feminine/masculine, but you should follow your own intuition first.
Using shapes for the facial design might help- squares, triangles and the like for a rougher bonier feel, spheres and ovals for softer feelings. There's always the symbolic meanings for these (sphere-> innocence, triangles-> danger or evil etc) and using those can also help you achieve the type of character you want.
Depending on your style, the shape-stylization can be distilled or exaggerated.
Hope that helps any.
Ryan Gatts do studies...
Very helpful. Thanks
Awesome tutorial! To be honest, I would be so interested in watching a tutorial on how to draw that guy in more depth. A dirty and sketchy look and such realism at the same time, it even reminds me of Dİshonored art style, a steampunkish feel. I would use that style for years if I could paint as fast as you did here. I spent hours on one single face, and he looks like a cartoon guy which I'm not even proud of. I know there are lighting and color choices that matter when it comes to realism so if you could at least explain them in a fast way I'd be so happy!!
great video. thanks
anyone know what brush with texture he made at 4:38 ? thank you so much !
What jellyfish brushes? I like this painting like brushes, where to download?
how can you change your brushes without going to the brush preset bar or the brush properties? what shortcut are you using?
anybody else having this problem: not knowing when to blend and when to simply paint over base colors? I'm just starting out in digital painting and my current dilemma involves painting portraits. some tips would be really helpful :) thanks!
I know its too late to reply to this but currently i am facing this problem. But i hope you have found the answer by now.
@@ShiroOniArt for me I use base colors for planes that are flat and blending for connecting flat planes to another planes or surfaces that have to look more smooth (often stuff like feminine noses) and not so rough or edgy . Sorry if this is an oversimplification lol
Dude what kind of picture size + resolution did you use? I'm still struggling with an understanding how the resolution influences everything
How do you flip the canvas quickly?
do you had models for this drawings?
Very nice work. Please forget the naysayers. It is always easy to be an armchair quarterback, it is much harder and takes tons more talent to paint and put out a prodigious video such as you have done here. Thank you.
It felt like quality was lower than 720p.
Great demo!
No it is 1080
How do you pick your colors? I don't see your swatches or pallets. How do you determine which color you will use?
Eye dropper
super bro
cool
Do you keep flipping the image horizontally to check for errors?
Yes, this is popular between artists to get a get a better 3d perspective of the picture. (:
Daulizza very informative question and answer!
I know the question itself has been answered already, so this is only an elaboration on my personal experience here as a beginner artist, but it is useful to understand how as an artist you can 'get used' to certain perspective or proportional errors during the painting process. As such it might seem there's nothing wrong, until the moment you flip it and the proportional error or perspective error suddenly becomes apparent again. I used to not flip my images in the past, yet a single flip a few years later instantly revealed perspective issues. It's really quite a useful practice indeed. :)
Amen to that! :D
where are such brushes
anyone knows what brushes he is using ? :)
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what brush are you using? :)
The artists tool shouldn't matter. :)
i just thought it looked good, and i want to try it out :)
monkeycemetrywarden Yeah but it can really expedite a process if you want a similar end result as what you are seeing in the demo, so it does matter
At least for the female, he mostly uses the standard soft round brush.. It looks like it. The male one is done with a rectangular one. A similar bush comes with many brush sets you find in the web. I got It as part of a demo DVD I baught some time ago. Basically, its a rectangular shape with a sligh texture, rugged edges and a slight transparancy build into it :). For the details and rough edges... hm... I'd say some dual brush settings.. but I don't know for shure
monkeycemetrywarden Have you ever seen the difference between watercolor and acrylic? Would you say they look anything the same in most cases? Tools make a HUGE difference, no matter if traditional or digital media. Now, that's not to say you should focus strictly on brushes, I do believe you should take some time to practice pieces with only one brush as a digital artist because it helps you understand the value brushes bring and someone who knows how to use brushes to their full potential gives themselves more potential as well.
As for the brush on the male, it looks like it might be using wet edges (it kind of blends but not enough to give it that soft, feathery feel most low opacity brushes do), it's some sort of square brush, like the ones that come with photoshop that I believe are called "chalk" or "sponge" with some adjustments but I'd have to go back and check, (if you want a good brush like that, go look up sakimichan on deviant art, she has a brush set with a lot of good slightly textured brushes in her gallery somewhere for free, also you'll love her art if you haven't seen it already) he's got his brush set to full opacity and full flow, and is mostly picking colors he thinks will go right with the face right off, rather than trying to blend everything together to make each color "perfect." Basically, he has faith in himself as an artist and it's a big part of what makes his art so good.
As for the female, it's a mostly a soft round brush (the hardness is tweaked throughout the entire thing to exaggerate the hard lines like on the nose and near the eyes) except for the speckle one at the end, which he uses to give her some blemishes at the end because a face with no mistakes is just not human and not believable
i need subtitles in spanish :(
how did u flip the image though... teach me TT
+Minh Ngo Image> Image Rotation> Flip canvas horizontal and if you want to flip just one layer: edit>transform>flip horizontal hope it helps!
+Minh Ngo You can also set action to flip your canvas in one click :)
thanks !!!
+Chatbdin Rungjalearnpiboon You can add a shortcut directly from Edit/Keyboard shortcuts/Panel menu section, which I think is simpler and quicker
omg thank you!!
I love your faces!
"edges and sharpness " are Photoshop tools? I can't find them..
batika
amazing how he never changed opacity (i think)
awesome video ... its just too fast man ! im picking up what you say but not what you do , which is critical ... would be awesome if you'd uploaded the real time video !
ironically, it would have been nice to see a video on edges and sharpness in a reasonable resolution, instead of looking through a dirty bottle. ;\
Sam Carr; baddass.
Idk why I’m here knowing I can’t barely draw a stick😭🥶😂
The woman still looks blurry af to be honest.
Completely separate from the man.
I've seen many tutorials like this but at the end, all they're teaching is how to draw a baby faced girl and a sharp faced guy. There are a shit ton of different kinds of faces and many people who own facial characteristics of the opposite sex. I'd like to see how we can use sharpness and edges in all kinds of different people, not just the two default kinds we probably kinda already know.
The video was just more to show you the differences in subtle lines, not comment on the gender roles in our society. These were just two quick examples, you can apply the technique to any character you want, male or female, if he just showed a bunch of different characters with the same technique then you'd have a mass of cookie cutter characters rather than him saying "okay I've shown you, now go out and apply it"
I was thinking the exact same thing.
xite91 Actually I wasn't implying on him showing any gender roles in society, I have no problem with that. I do believe I would've learned more if he used it on a couple of other characters, or at least two more with the roles reversed because after watching this I don't feel I have learned anything I didn't already know, and I assume that most people of intermediate skill like myself didn't either.
KuracPickaSisaPeder He's trying to show the technique, you're supposed to apply it, the idea behind the technique's the same no matter who the character is, if you're looking for facial structure differences between a man and a woman, that's an entirely different lesson, and the best way for you to learn it is to find pictures of faces on the internet and speedpaint them while still trying to get all of the most important details shown
xite91 I still mean what I said before, and the facial structure should've been a part of this lesson to be honest, but I guess the artist just quickly did what they told him to do as he said in the comment below so there's no point in saying anything else, it's good that he even did this since he was obviously taking out of his time with no compensation.
fucking dope =)
god, why are you so talented and I'm not?
this is impressionism vs realism XD