Author: Dongfangxiong
Software: PS
Hardware: Huion Tablet : http://www.huiontablet.com/product/
Inspiration: An elegant young man is strolling about a remote garden in which the wisterias are blossoming on April. He walks on the flagstone road and looks lots of wisteria petal paved a way for him to find the charming woman who is standing among wisterias with a robe. It looks so beautiful that the young is attracted at his first sight.
This is the final effect.
This is one part of the picture.
Picture 1: Turn on the PS, create a blank canvas and a new layer used to draft.
Picture 2: Cover the whole picture with a light purple to fit the theme of wisteria.
Picture 3: Choose Heavy Smear Wax Crayon in pen setting to draw wisteria. This pen is useful because it can draw good texture when brush the background. Click “scatter”, “dual brushes” “transmission” in pen setting which locates in the window of pen preference. After finishing the above settings, you can brush background.
Picture 4: This is the effect of finishing background. The following detail drawing processes go on based on this step.
Picture 5: First refine the part of face. Start from the left eye. After finishing the left eye, you can compare to the unfinished right eye and find that the elaboration effect is obvious.
Picture 6: This is the effect of finishing face elaboration. The character is Lady Rattan who acts as Huadan in opera. Therefore, her eye lines in canthus should be long and thin. Besides, the whole face makes up with soft pink to show her charming.
Picture 7: Next it is time to deal with the hair and headwear. Choose brush with hard-edge round and transmission because it is convenient to draw hair which can look layered.
Picture 8: This is the complete effect of head part.
Picture 9: It is turn to depict dress with the same brush used in drawing hair. But there is a need to adjust the opacity to show the lightness of the clothes.
Picture 10: Depict wisteria ornamentation in the clothes.
Picture 11: After adjusting the hair on the back, add pink and purple hair band.
Picture 12: The following step is to draw wisteria. First draw the flowers above the head.
Picture 13: Adjust the type of brush, and add the properties like “scatter”, “texture”, so that you can depict the distant wisteria.
Picture 14: Lead in the grass brush, and draw grass behind the female.
Picture 15: Add wisteria petals which is falling and scattering on the ground.
Picture 16: Use gradient tool to drag out a color banding from purple to fuchsia and enrich the color of wisteria.
Picture 17: Go on to add petals.
Picture 18: Lead in manipulated with brush to depict the character’s voile ribbon.
Picture 19: Enrich the distant wisteria.
Hope this course will be helpful.
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