Hello, happy Sunday guys, So I decided to have fun with my system as pick up an inspiration from a forest female healer who's bathing and I decided to name this one as Don't look on a forest female healer because she is bathing and you are now staring at her hence her cold look. She looks angry, right.
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As you can see, this is an expression study. The artwork is pretty basic. I concentrated mostly on the face here. Well, maybe I put some effort into painting her hair as well. Never painted a green haired girl before so I really wanted to see how it turns out.
Afcourse you can but the only problem is it won't be much flexible as painting them on seperate layers. I sincerely hope your drawing software supports liquify tool, without it we might have to depend on perspective and mesh form. It's doable but it's a hassle. Regardless, you can still master it over time if you don't have liquify available. So for this painting I did the same steps I mentioned here and moved the eye brows up, down sideways etc. It's fun to see how the painting becomes more alive once the emotions kick in. I started with a happy expression but later changed to a cold stare. Why? Because I haven't done this before. Same thing I did with the lips as well. Pulled it slightly inwards to vanish any smile left to amplify the cold stare. This is something that every artist should try once in a while. It's a fun experiment and who knows, maybe it will improve the painting was well.
As for the painting part. I found a reference image of a girl in a pond from Pinterest. Then I made a sketch on my book and again on app. I decided to paint her skin in light brown. I decided to paint the eyes blue because of the complementing factor there. I experimented with the eyes a bit by adding some strokes of red and yellow in there. That seems to be working I think. I painted her hair brown at first but later changed to green because of her character and the forest. I didn't rely on the reference image while painting the water here, This was done because I had plans to add focus blur towards the face at the end so anything surrounding her didn't matter because the study was about expression afterall. Although I did paint some branches on here and there and applied moving blur in it as well. I didn't want to make the surrounding look that much empty so it has to be done. But seriously though, don't look at a bathing body 🤣🤣.