The golden sea
Hello friends! I hope you have had an excellent weekend, today I am very happy because I just finished this work entitled "The Golden Sea" I wanted to make today a kind of portrait with a magical touch, I was inspired by two things that I like a lot: The sea and fish.
So I chose a fantasy / surreal style for this drawing, painting what I like the most, which are portraits, it was very difficult for me to do the hair since the white / blonde tone is something that I do not work very well, I like more to use dark tones like black, brown or even some fantasy tones, however, today I wanted to please a friend who some time ago suggested I use that hair color in a drawing, he encouraged me to do it even if it takes hours just on the hair, even more hours than it took me to paint the skin haha.
Anyway, I hope you like the drawing:
I started with my sketch to guide me while I was painting, although the sketch was really a bit strange on the left side of the face, I feel that she was very chubby, but I would fix this later with the shadows, using a soft brush I began to highlight her skin with a few basic colors to know where to locate the light and shadow, in a new layer add more colors and tones that would completely shape this drawing, we continue in another layer blurring and mixing the tones until obtaining a fairly smooth skin.
Once her face was ready I started with the hair, I chose a base cream tone to paint her long hair, in a new layer I started to apply the shadows, at this point I was a bit confused since I didn't like how she was looking hair, I decided to continue and vary with more shades, adding shadows and lights to the hair and creating some kind of waves so that her hair had movement.
After several hours trying to achieve the perfect hair, I felt that I was ready, it was time to take care of these little fish that would be around her, some would be around her hair and others just her, at this moment I realized that there was still no painted its neck and chest, so I painted it and then proceeded with the background, placing a dark blue and then a kind of sea, I also drew some waves of various shades of blue, I thought it was a super beautiful detail, I decided to make my fish shine so I created a new layer below them with the blending mode “screen” and taking on a neon orange tone to make these cute fish stand out.
I drew small bubbles around the entire drawing including near highlights and started to adjust the lighting and saturation throughout the image, to get more striking colors.
I really hope you liked it, I loved this result, something different from what I'm usually doing, which is usually a little darker.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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Beautiful I love it
Thank you 😊
Excelente trabajo.
Muchas gracias 🐱
Este es uno de mis dibujos favoritos🤩 Siempre es bueno salir de tu zona de confort, me parece que el cabello te quedó realmente hermoso, pero una de las cosas que más me gustaron es la piel y los pequeños puntos de luz en ella.
Gracias!!! La verdad no tenía mucha fe cuando empecé a pintar pero valió la pena ❤️💙
Bellisimo amiga! No puedo creer que hayas dicho que el trabajo de cabello blanco/rubio no lo trabajas bien si te ha quedado fabuloso! me encantó, fue mi parte favorita asi como tambien las pestañas rubias, hermoso. Definitivamente un gran arte, tu tecnica en hacer que los peces se ven tan reales y magicos con sus brillos
Muchisimas gracias! creo que nunca habia echo este tipo de cabello y creeme que borre varias veces jajaja pero me encanto como quedo
All the different stages of the process of you making this art piece are very interesting -- plus it's amazing how much more the hair significantly adds to it! Beautiful work! And thanks for reblogging my post :) Very much appreciated!
Thank you so much!! your post was awesome ✌😁
Hermoso trabajo, me encanta mágico y misterioso podría ser una sirena.
Muy atractiva la combinación de colores que empleaste y el cabello te quedo increíble.
Saludos...
Muchas gracias! es uno de mis trabajos favoritos, saludos 😃