Ivette, A Gaze as Sweet and Bright as Honey.

What's up my people, I hope you are having a great day, today I want to share with you Ivette, A Look as Sweet and Bright as Honey, and here I try to practice a little with the application of stronger and deeper strokes to build a better volumized and above all much more realistic in areas such as skin and hair. I started this drawing with light tones and little by little I was raising the saturation to try to create a drawing much more contrasted and with a mixture of intense shades; this was made easier thanks to a couple of brushes that I decided to try for this work.

PROCESS

The sketch I decided to start it as a kind of portrait since it is one of the sketches that I find easier, I decided to create Ivette with a pose like crossed arms, with a quite long and wavy hair, but above all with a sweet and confident look and expression on her face. As I said before this is a work in which I started the painting with light tones and on that base I went up and scaling shades of color, as in this case of the skin where I used a light pink and then I was adding strokes on that color to mix them a little.

After finishing with the base of the skin I decided to create a special layer to paint a little blush on the cheeks, I did this to print a more feminine touch to her expression and the airbrush helped me a lot in this section. After finishing with the blush the next thing I did was to paint the lips and for this I used a pretty intense scarlet red; after finishing with the lips I moved on to painting the eyes and for them I made a mixture of yellow tones with white to build a special shine in both eyes.

The next step in the coloring process of my work was the application of colors to Ivette's clothes, this time I decided to create a kind of loose blouse because I wanted the work to have that special touch of elegance; for this I used a chocolate brown base color and little by little with a flat brush I made thick strokes to establish a little shape and texture of the blouse; then to finish it better I added very dark tones to give it a little more depth and shadows to this section.

The hair was the section where I think I took more time because I wanted to achieve a good level of detail and above all realism and for this I started using a brush with a defined tip as the watercolor brush to achieve a little softness in the upper strokes over the lower ones. Then with a mixture of three brushes I determined the wavy shape of the hair while I was blurring to join all the relief of the hair; finally with a fine brush I created some lines of glitter to achieve a good volume for Ivette's hair.

Finally, and with Ivette totally finished the only thing I had left to do was to create a good background to go with the character, and that's why I went a little crazy XD and decided to use several different brushes and above all colors in different scales; first I created a base for the background with a mix of orange, red, brown and yellow tones. After establishing that first base and mixing it the next thing I did was to use a brush with a confetti tip to print some special texture to the background, this while at the same time I created a sphere behind Ivette; to finish I gave some texture to the sphere and also painted some dark cracks complementing the background.

MATERIALS

• Sai Paint Tool Program
• Huion inspiroy h610 v2 tablet

Well my dear community of artists this has been all for today, thank you very much for coming here and I hope you like my drawing. Until a next drawing my people.