Hello everyone how are you? Hope you're fine.

It's been a while when I'm in steemit! And I will make a content for my digital artwork again. So please stay still and keep viewing, thank you!

Warm greetings here in Community, how are you fellow craft & art creators?? It is my first time to explore and post my digital art content here. ^_^

Just last month on February, a friend asked me to comission a digital portrait, she paid for it. She sent to me the picture of her friend on messenger and that was the picture I am going to paint. Just like my recent way of painting, I did it in a semi realistic way.

Here it is:

The reference:

Tools:

• Phone
• Ibis paint x app

Digital Brushes:

• Pen fade
• Airbrush (normal)
• Round brush

I consecutively arranged the saved picture of progress. Unlike my past digital art blogs, I haven't made a video of my painting progress, so let's just see the progress on the pictures below.

I added a layer first, where I drew the outlines, here is my outline. I already painted the face and the hair.

Paint the skin. You pick the color on the reference picture and and paint the part according to the colors using the brush pen fade.

Then in blending time, I used airbrush for blending. Just paint it until the colors were already blended. And as we see below when you see the fair and semi realistic color of the skin, that's how it is.

Then paint the red dress. Like what I did on painting the skin, I first used pen fade brush for the base then use airbrush for the blending. We can use airbrush for brushing highlights and shadows on your portrait.

And lastly, paint the bag. The chain sling of the bag, I didn't drew it. There is a brush where you just use it then it appears like chain when you brush it. It is purposely for those kind of stuffs.

And then here it is! Done painting!

This is my latest kind of painting. I started with plain color of painting where there are no highlights and shadows until I learned the process of semi realistic painting on YouTube then I changed the style of my art. In the year 2020, I have been doing digital arts but in different kind of drawing/painting and I started with autodesk sketchbook then I moved into ibis paint x because a lot of my friends uae this app too, and there ia where I learned the semi realistic painting.

I watched YouTube tutorials about that kind of art and I am thankful for their tips and tutors. And I am happy for my gained experience and for the things that I have learned along those years until now.

It really takes time to learn.

But we should not worry about failures and mistakes at the beginning, right? That's how we start to learn. We just need to trust the process until we make it!

Do not give up trying! It feels tiring sometimes because for me, digital painting is has a bit complications. But you get tired, don't quit.

Just don't force yourself when you're in art block stage, just take a rest until you're okay on doing it again. Digital painting may be tiring however to the same extent it is worth the joy as long as you have already done a portrait. It brings joy! Just do not force yourself and take a rest when you are in art block but the thing you shouldn't do is to quit.

So that is all that I can share with you today. Thank you so much for viewing and taking your time to read my blog! Good day everyone!

Best regards from:
@jeycel