DIGITAL ART TUTORIAL - How to color a face - DO's and DON'Ts

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DIGITAL ART TUTORIAL - How to color a face

In this digital art tutorial I'll be showing you how to color a face with digital painting software and (preferably) a drawing tablet. We'll start out with a line drawing and I'll be showing you some do's and don't when it comes to painting a face.

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When coloring a face, you can start out with a basic skin tone. It's important to add color variation later on, to give the skin a more realistic look. I do this by adding an Overlay layer and paint with oranges and reds, but also with blues and purples.
Try to build up shape and contrast gradually and tweak the painting as you go.

Here are some DO's and DON'Ts when it comes to painting a face.
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As you can see, color plays an important part when it comes to achieving realism.
Be ware that shadow parts of the face are (often) NOT BLACK and
the white of the eyes is NOT WHITE

You can use a soft edged brush with a low opacity to blend the colors of the skin nicely. Pick up a color with the eyedropper tool and glaze the color on top of the area you want to blend (you can find a tutorial on blending on my YouTube channel).

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For a full explanation, check out this YouTube video tutorial

Thanks for reading and watching!


As always I worked in Photoshop CS5 using a Wacom Intuos3 drawing tablet


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Weldon for this wonderful lesson is really helpful . you have an uncommon skill. I love this .Keep it up.

Weldon for this wonderful lesson is really helpful. Keep it up.

Very good lesson on how to color a face. Learning as always from you. Thanks for sharing

Thanks so much, that is wonderful to hear :)

welcome and always your fan
thanks...

This one is awesome tutz..!! Well done..!! Thanks for sharing this..!! Waiting for your next tutorial..!!

Thanks so much! Glad to hear you like it. More tutorials coming soon :)

That's some great skills you've got here. :) It's different from what I'm used to see. That's a nice different of art.
Maybe you would be interested in my FreeArt Challenge.
Cheers my friend. =)

Thanks so much! Glad to hear you like it. Unfortunately I'm too busy atm to participate in contests :(

Thank you for this lesson! I've been trying to improve my digital art, especially in the skin coloring department. It seems i've done most of the "don'ts" here. Definitely going to follow your advice here.

Glad to hear my post is helpful! Keep working :)

Nice one @artwithflo I think I can learn to draw while following you :)

Very nice tutorial! I wish i go digital someday too, will definitely take tips from here hehe :)

Wonderful, subscribed your Youtube channel as well.
Do you have any plans of making illustrator tutorials as well?
And what's the best platform for learning Photoshop, Illustrator and all this designing stuff?
I really want to learn all these skills but I guess my age is a big hurdle in becoming a good and pro graphic designer!

Thanks for sharing :)

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