All right.
This lecture we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna start blocking in the colors for a painting.
So we just want to keep this nice and simple the more simple you can keep your paintings at the beginning.
The easier the process is going to be for you and the more manageable it'll feel.
So let's go ahead and let's start by we're going to create a new layer Saadiq created one right underneath
my drawing layer so that way you can add color underneath it.
And what we want to do is using her color picker we're gonna pick one of the darker colors on her skin.
So I'm going to pick right here underneath her shot oh actually me it will come down here onto her shoulder.
So it's important that when you're color picking and you're doing studies that you pay attention to
where those colors are in your color tray because you really want to start observing those.
So you'll notice that the darker this area over here it's kind of a de saturated color you could color
pick a few other colors such as this light area and you'll see it's pretty saturated as well.
And basically anywhere you look on her face it's all pretty de saturated.
We'll get to her lips and even that is not as saturated as you might think.
So this image is a pretty deep saturated image.
Also I think we forgot to turn the opacity up so I'm gonna turn the opacity back up if we go ahead check
all those colors again.
They're a little bit more saturated now that red is a lot more saturated.
We can see that they're not as saturated as you might think.
So what we want to do is we want to select this darker color down here on our shoulders already use
that as our base color you usually want to start with a darker color.
So using a brush tool bring up the size quite large and let's just go ahead and just start painting
in that darker color wherever her skin tone is
when we get down here let's just go ahead and paint some nice paint strokes we'll bring this size back
down and just kind of let it fade out down here at the bottom
we could even take this color all the way up into our hair if we want to
man some soft stuff out here as well and I'm going to switch over to a different brush I'm not super
satisfied with this brush I want to get a little bit more of a sharper edge I might switch to my other
paintbrush that has a harder edge I'm just going to paint some of this out here as well with a harder
edge
and maybe I'll take my race ceremony race that back a little bit and try that again because I want to
have a softer edge and that's not looking very soft
sitting back on my brush tool I'm just going to do some very light soft brush strokes out here that
are nice and transparent
and that's just kind of to help stabilize this painting a little bit all right.
Perfect.
Next what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go ahead.
I'm going to select one of these lighter colors in the skin tone so maybe somewhere from down here so
not the lightest area like on her cheek but somewhere about a mid tone and I want to use that to
start shading it in the face I want to bring the opacity of my brush down to 30 percent and this will
allow me to slowly layer and where I want the highlights to be.
So basically her whole face is gonna be an highlight but there's some areas I don't want to be more
highlighted than others.
So for example are you gonna cheek down here on her chin
right here on her upper lip on the bottom of her nose appear on her brow right there.
Same with on the other side.
One more highlight over here and right here on the edge of her face
and I just want to get more highlight down here
and even though these colors don't match your skin perfectly for now they're gonna give us a nice base
and then we can start to go over some of the darker areas because we actually want all the skin tone
to be pretty bright.
We just want some of these areas to be a little bit darker than others.
Something like this and I'm going to go ahead and select.
Well to the lips next I must like to read from in here.
Try to get a mid tone Red.
Not one of these darker reds.
I'll go in there and I'm gonna paint in the lips.
Bring your brush capacity back up to 100 percent you can get that full red color in there
go under the top lip
then let's go ahead and let's do the teeth somewhere.
Go ahead and select this darker bluish gray color in there.
I want to paint in those teeth
there is a trashcan driven by Nick.
So I'm going to pause for a second just to make sure you edit this out.
I'm going to go ahead and I'm a color pick the eye something to grab kind of that Midtown color in there
I can paint that I can
maybe I'll grab a little bit of this lighter color in here this is more of a blue color I'm going to
fill that part in as well.
Great.
Then let's see.
Let's go ahead and paint in the hair now and that'll just about do it.
I want to go ahead and select that hair color bring up my brush size and just roughly fill in the area
where the hair is now.
We're gonna clean this up a bunch.
This is just a really block in those colors.
And we've done this so many times so many paintings like you probably get the idea.
I just really want to stress at the beginning of your painting should be really simple kind of messy
don't get too stressed out about making everything perfect because that will kind of ruin your painting.
You really just want to be loose and then work your way to a more tight and more refined painting towards
the end
go ahead and select some as dark brown and the hair maybe add some of that and here a little bit
had a little bit to these eyebrows.
Does it really matter much.
Just because we're painting underneath this brown drawing Oh and lastly let's go ahead let's select
the brown in the eyes and let's go ahead and paint the eyes and.
All right great.
So there we go.
That's all you have to do in order to block in your painting.
Now I don't really like down here on her neck.
I don't really like how this paint is acting.
It doesn't look that nice.
So what I'm going to do is I mean go ahead.
Reece liked this dark color in here.
Paint some of that in with this other brush because I think that was a problem is the brush I was using
now re select this lighter color and paint some of that and on top of it
I think that looks a little bit better
doesn't really like how I was reacting down here.
It didn't look that nice or painterly or anything like that so that's why I changed that.
All right.
I think that looks pretty good.
So you can see why it's important to make sure that you're your drawing lines are nice and thin because
if they're not it's going to cover up all of your color and stuff so you can even see here in the hair
we could even go in there.
Any race out some of this brown whips switch my race or we could race out some of this brown from the
drawing we can actually raise a lot of this drawn out we don't even really need this outline anymore
so you can say I can just kind of start racing out that drawing it's not that important anymore I'm
going to lighten up these eyebrows a little bit maybe not because we don't want to lose the shape of
those I can probably search your race out the lips a little bit maybe lighten up a nose a bit
now I think my skin tone kind of overshot over here on the jaw and somebody come back down to that layer
and I'm just going to sort of clean up that edge a little bit more like that.
All right great.
So there we go.
We just blocked in the colors for our painting and now we're ready to really start adding some detail
and I'll see you guys in the next lecture.