Monday, January 8, 2018

First Post for 2018 - Ianna's Portrait


First up for the new year, it's human portraiture!  I have been shying away from drawing human portraits  for years because I find it harder to capture the likeness.  Those who know the person in the drawing would quickly tell me if  I succeeded or not.  Unlike animals, no one would complain. Haha...

Here's the portrait of my niece, Ianna. A gift for her 18th birthday.  Painting straight in color still intimidates me, so as a safety method and as always, I started painting in greyscale.   Making sure the value structure was right,   All the hard work was done at  this stage. Once I was satisfied with it, I then glazed-in the color on a top layer set in the color blend mode.  I used Clip Studio Paint Ex this time, which is very similar to Photoshop. 




So for this year, I'm thinking of expanding my artistic horizon and include humans in my drawings and paintings.  Might do some  of my fave celebrities.  Watch out for it!