Step 7. I’m still using a round brush. I have now started refining detail in areas like the mouth, eyes, nose, ears, hair as well as shirt. I have also added a bit more to the background, increasing size for a better composition. You can start to see a softer transition on edges between values. I continue this technique of painting until I feel the piece is finished. I have removed the palette because I now have enough colors in my painting to work with. If
I need to change the value or saturation of a color that I already have, I simply click on the color picker and mix or adjust my color there.
Step 8. Not much has changed in step 8. You can see that I have now begun to add hair-like strokes to his hair as well as beard. For hair I like to use a soft round, I make sure that I click on Shape Dynamics so that I have a tapered point to work with. I have also started to use my favorite Photoshop brush, brush #24. Follow the brush settings mentioned in Step 2. Brush #24’s marks and strokes feel more like a natural paint brush and I use it as such, this is the brush I will use to finish the painting, with the exception of a soft round that I use for hairs.
Step 9. With brush #24 I continue to soften edges, adjust values and introduce more lighter values.
Step 10. The shirt is coming along, although it is my intention to leave the shirt a bit loose and sketchy. I continue to develop the different shapes I’ve created. At this stage I freely zoom in and out. Zooming in for details, zooming out to have a look from a distance. It is important to often step back from the painting. With this painting it was not my intention to copy the color I was seeing in the photograph, instead I decided to focus mainly on values while keeping color temperature in mind. Squint your eyes for value and open your eyes to see the color.
Final Step. The painting is all but finished in step 10 with the exception of the hair. First, create a new layer for hair, this way if you need to erase a hair that doesn’t feel right, it won’t ruin the rest of the painting. For hair, I paint the large mass of value and shape that I see, squinting my eyes, I block in the basic form or design of the hair. I block it in a little bit darker than it needs to be. This way when I paint smaller hairs on top in a lighter value, it will give the illusion of depth. To add to this illusion, I also change the size of my brush to differ the widths of the hairs. I use a soft round brush with a tapered point to paint smaller hairs. Keep it simple, study what hair does and then make it more interesting.
Well, that’s it, remember to have fun, sketch, draw and paint from life, as much as you can. Keep it simple. If you look at the design of my portrait, you can see that my shapes and forms are basic and simple. When I combine strong values and color to my basic design, the final appears more complicated than it really is.
If this fails you can always push “Control Apple Jason”, see if that does it for ya!
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