Finalised Self Portrait

This is the finalised version of my self portrait.

This took a lot of trial and error, when using Photoshop. In my future paintings, I would like to add more refined texture especially when rendering fur or the translucency of the water. I tried to reflect light on the mask, but with the set brushes I downloaded; it’s more smoother instead of textured.
There’s a lot of styles that I want to produce. One of them being surrealism. Other styles that I’d also like to try would be minimalism/vectoring. seeing clean lines or a iconagraphic style of a drawing looks quite satisfying. I like to see most of my art with smoother transitions and rendering and not just blocks of colour.
In surrealism, it captures another dimension of reality and fantasy.

Through out the whole drawing process I used are found on here
http://digitalbrushes.tumblr.com/.
It’s a website that give away free brush sets, and I think they’re good for most beginners. Depending on the brush set used.

There is some refinement, I’d say to a degree. Right is before and the left is after.
Even with the refined lips, there’s something on the right that makes it look more unique. Even thought the lips are flat, it has this texture that makes it stand out from the smooth skin.

This is the overall images I used as reference, more picture are linked to my previous

Water those! Hair update

A lot but surely, I am getting use to Photoshop. I’ve been playing with it’s opacity and I think it’s a good way to get a smoother gradient between 2 colours.

Initial layout of sea foam — *The seafoam is a bit thicker than I would like it to be.*

Refined sea foam — *After thinning out the foam it’s seams more cleaner.yet the colour of the ocean lacks light and transparency.*

I like the overall process of digital painting. I want to improve on the opacity of the water. By adding green hues, it allows the illusion if transparency. In this case it looks more opaque than it was before hand. It has added highlights, but I’m afraid adding too much light and darkness would ruin my progress.

Thank goodness for ctrl + z. I’ll never understand I didn’t live without it. I’ve started to create more layers on the painting. So far so good. I just have to remember to change the layers to the right one. There’s alot to uncover about adobe. I’m looking forward to see a small boost in following after posting more digital pics on instagram hahaha.

Update self portrait

This is a coloured version of the drawing

This is a slow process of how I would use photoshop. It looks better without the outlines as shown in the previous 2 images. As of now, it is a colour foundation of the entire piece. Depending on how fast I finish, I’d like to actually post before this whole thing is due…
After this illustration, I’ll be focusing moreover on the exaggeration of the human body; such as the number of limbs or facial features. other future digital drawings would also include random objects or reflect a certain past event. (formed in a dream-like perspective)
This style I have developed so far in digital is more cartoony rather than a more realistic approach I had in mind. I think further experimentation and tutorials will further help my studies. I will soon post this on Instagram once this image has been more refined to my liking.

Images for further references.
My illustrations overall look quite fundamental, but with further practice and consistent uploads I might be able to create a following on instagram. This also reflects on tradtional art as well.