Happy weekend to all of you.
Today I wanted to experiment a little bit making a portrait with warm tones and a dark background, I thought it would be a risky combination and maybe not the best, but I was really curious, so I did that and I wanted to make this portrait with some bubbles floating around, I think I only drew bubbles once and it was more than a year ago so I wanted to practice that a little bit, the truth was quite complicated, I feel that the bubble is still visually heavy but I did the best I could, maybe it's not one of my favorite portraits but I learned a lot from this work, I hope you like it.
After making the sketch I chose the colors to work with, normally I feel very uncomfortable with this range of warm tones so saturated, but from time to time is good to get out of the comfort zone, I began to apply the colors all over the face and then apply a new layer where I added more tones giving the shape completely to the face, then mix them and give a soft finish to the skin, for the hair I wanted to apply a pure black as a base.
In the background I put a solid color of a desaturated dark brown tone, then I began to add some illuminations that affect from the background to the foreground of the drawing, I gave details of light to the hair with yellow tones that would make that effect of bouncing light from the background, with a watercolor texture brush I added some brushstrokes in the background applying yellow, orange and red, then I painted one of the bubbles, for this I first drew a circle with a color similar to the dark tone of the background, I created a clipping mask and began to paint the edges and fill with different tones simulating the bubble, I duplicated this bubble several times changing the size and rotating it to place them on the right side too, to finish I made an edition of the whole image because I was really bothered by so much saturation and although the change was not so abrupt I lowered a little the saturation making the colors a little more neutral.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
Foundation: alexa-artx
Rarible : alexaart
KnownOrigin: alexaart
Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
Opensea: alexa-art
Makersplace: alexaartx
Ghostmarket : alexa
NFT Showroom: alexa.art
Twitter: Alexa_Ys
Instagram : artx.alexa
This is so beautiful 💗💗💗
Thanks!!
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¡Muchas gracias!
This is beautiful Alexa