Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Coloured Portrait 2 (Learning Subsurface Scattering)
This one I had to again start in black and white. I really struggle on tonal values in colour. I had had painted this once and posted on Facebook and it seemed to be missing something and that was Subsurface scattering. This is where the light and shadow meet and the light is absorbed in to the skin and kind makes this red/orange glow that you see commonly in ears and hands when put infront of a bright light.
Using ArtRage and Photoshop
Normally I just use Photoshop and a Wacom Intous 5 but I've always liked using brushes that emulate brush strokes and Artrage seemed perfect for that. I had to paint in black and white first because I'm not too confident about painting straight in to colour. I started this in artrage but I ran in to issues with it purely just taking too long to go through changing the settings all the time. I ended up bringing it back in to photoshop to add colours and touch up areas. I really like the brush stroke effects it gave but it grew very tiresome that way of painting.
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