Illustration process (girl portrait). N1

Hi everybody.

As I promise, my last artwork is done. I decided to make 1 digital illustration per week for 1 year as a way to improve as an artis. This is my first entry for this incredible challenge that I hope to reach.

In fact 2 years ago I made the same but I only reached 42 illustrations of 52 that I should arrive (But it was not a bad number, is'nt it?). In my experience I grow a lot making it!

This challenge is not an personal invention, I saw this challenge from a great artist called Marcos Raya Delgado that explain the better way to improve as an artist is push yourself making art. I suggest to all of you check his website where he explain techniches to learn digital tools for illustrators. His website is only in spanish: www.dibujarbien.com

Well, here I am going to explain below step by step how I made this recent illustration.

1-I started to make a sketch. Very simple and rough just for a initial reference.

2-I added two different layer behind of sketch layer. These layers was for base color of skin and hair.

3-At the skin layer I started to apply some shading and tones.

4-I added colors on eyes and I made some adjustment on right eye of character.

5-Here I selected two different tones for hair. Purple degraduate to blue-gray tone. I also added some shadows. If you see the selection of this tones is make a contrast between skin (orange-warm color) and hair (purple-blue cold color).

6-At sketch layer I added some colors. Generally a sketch is black but when I reach this step is neccesary to avoid black tones for go further and made a better blend colors. Before to go to next step I "flat" or combine all the layers colors in only one layer.

7-Here is time to blend the tones selected and add light, details and redefine face shapes. This step need a lot of patience.

8-Finally I finished the skin render. Now I decided to work on hair details adding shadows and light.

9-This last step was keep adding more hair details, more shadows and lights. It tooks me more work than skin but at the end it worth. Finally it is complete.

I hope everybody have enjoyed this artwork and how was made it. Keep follow my step to see if I am going to complete my challenge (what do you think? could be possible?)

Here my favourite part, the animation of process illustration.

For whose do not know about me, My name is Abrahma Tansini, graphic designer and digital illustrator based in Venezuela (right, in Venezuela, country that now has a lot of politic problem that we how to overcome as soon as possible). If you like to see more of my artwork, check my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahmatan/

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Media: Adobe Photoshop and Wacom Bamboo.