The Journey To Madness, The Photoshop Story. Digital Painting is Difficult…

So me and photoshop are trying to become friends… But it’s a hard and difficult journey. So far I am still working on beginner level stuff, which is digital painting and all that jazz. So as usual this post will document my progress.

In my current photoshop project, I am trying to paint a decent female face and make it look good. At the moment, I am still on early stages and learning how to blend colors (one of the most difficult part of this process is choosing the colors…).

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I sketched up a basic female face, trying my best to get all the correct female characteristics including the accurate facial features.  Then I choose some colors to use as the base color for the face, which you can see in the photo.

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Did some more coloring and blending. Also tried my best to add more depth and value (shading) to create a less flat look. The only thing I didn’t like about this project so far was that the face was to elongated… and didn’t look right. So…

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Yea, as I said, I didn’t like the long-ness of the face, so I messed around the face by pushing the lower half of the face upward. So that’s all I got so far today, maybe I’ll get more done tomorrow. It’s 5am at the moment, and I have 3 hours sleep till college start… I’m exhausted.