Our third project in digital painting is head and hands. This one went through a lot of revisions.
Starting this was very difficult. I had the image in my head but could not get it on paper. My original expression was a sort of devious face. But that also changed several times. I started with a sketch on paper and then fixed up the anatomy quickly in photoshop, roughing in some colours along the way, trying to figure out the basic shading. At this point I still had almost no idea what I was doing.
After I got critiqued, I fixed up the anatomy some more and changed it to gray scale. The left hand is still nowhere to be seen because I had trouble with finding a good spot for it.
After I shaded everything, I started working on the cloth. I'm not too happy with how the bottom half of it turned out.
After all the shading was complete, I added colour. I eventually ended up with a sad expression, because I feel like that's a strong emotion to convey. However, I probably could have pushed it a bit more.
Overall, I enjoyed this project once I got into it, and figured out how the lighting worked.
