Simple tips to improve your eye drawings

If you are a portrait artist then you know that the eyes are the most important feature on the face to get right. It is the first place the viewer will look at when seeing your artwork. We are automatically drawn to the eyes first.

So here are a few tips that could help you improve your eye drawing skills and ultimately improve your portrait art.

Sharpen those pencils... and let's begin ;)

I recommend drawing from life and photographs as much as possible. Remember, practise makes perfect!

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Tonal Studies

Dimebag Steps

Below follows the Wips of my Dimebag painting

The whole process was done in Photoshop CS5.

I used 2 brushes for the whole painting: 1: Soft edged airbrush for shading and creating form and 2: round hard edged brush for detail and creating texture.

Refrence image



Step 1: Basic Quick Sketch





Step 2: Fill background colour and started blocking in base colours underneath line art layer
(Using soft airbrush, flow set to 100%)





Step 3: Started adding shadow and light to the face. I Lightened the line art
 layer at this stage.
(Still using soft airbrush but flow is set to under 25%) 






Step 4: Block in hair on a new layer
Here I start painting above the line art layer




Step 5: Render hair and start working on hands and clothing
The hair is first blocked in with a large airbrush and then detail
is added with smaller hard edged brushes with shape dynamics selected





Step 6: I did the guitar on a seperate layer and used the pen tool for the strings.




Step 7: Added some text and painted his tattoo as well as a few final touches with
a hard edged brush.



Final Image :http://nightshadeberry.deviantart.com/art/DimebagDarrell-Tribute-257662398

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