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1. Intro: Hello and welcome
to a new class. In this class, we will be drawing character mini portraits while practicing color mixing
and painting skin tones. If you want to feel more comfortable drawing
stylized portraits for your own or client projects, this class is for you. Hi, I'm Eva, and I'm
full time illustrator, Creating engaging and
colorful characters. Help me to work successfully on many projects, big and small. I want to help you to do
the same during this class. And even if you are a beginner
and new to procreate, I will take you step by
step through the process. During this class, we'll start off with drawing
the simple shapes. Because starting simple helped me to overcome this frustration of making characters
perfect right away and in amazing
personal style. And this is what I want
to help you this class. Don't think about the
illustration style for a moment. And just practice with basic shapes and create
fun mini portraits. During the class,
we'll also look at values to help you decide
on color combinations. I will share with
you my tips about color mixing within the darker
tones and lighter tones, as well as what to consider when choosing cooler
and warmer colors. I hope when you watch
and follow this class, you will feel super happy about your project illustration and you will share it with others. When you are sharing
it on Instagram, please make sure that you
take me in the image, not only in the description, because that way I can see your illustration and maybe you will see it in one
of the next videos. If you don't know yet, you can find even more drawing tutorials and classes they are procreate
and other tutorials. And I have more than
30 classes there. There is a variety from beginner level to more
advanced levels and you can also find different
topics without further ado, let's start and see
you in the class.
2. Warm-up Sketching: I thought we will start with some warm up exercises just to get more
comfortable with sketching. Because we can get
more rusty if we don't draw often or every day. For this one. The canvas
size, let me see, it is in canvas information
and dimensions, it's normal screen
size and 130 DPI. It's just for sketching. It doesn't have to be
perfect for sketching. I will be using the six B
pencil from my sketch set. What is quite similar, it's in the drawing set
me in sketching set, which is also six B pencil. You can use this one for
this part of exercise, I will go back to my pencil
regarding the color, you can use any darker color
or even lighter color for sketching if you prefer that this color palette is
from my last glass. And as we will be mixing colors, we don't have predefined color palette right
now for this exercise. As I said, I will
take some dark color, which is this dark bluish tone, almost black. All right? As a first exercise, try to draw circles with
the loose hand movements. As you can see, they're
not going to be perfect. And you can try different
sizes, smaller and bigger. And then you can try it slower. You can try it also
making it faster. And try to always follow the
first line that you created. I'm using the whole
fore arm when drawing not only the
fingers or the wrist, you can try both ways using the whole fore arm
or just the wrist. All right, then when
drawing a face, I'm also using shapes which
are like a half oval. I can practice these shapes and you can practice
connecting them. You can also practice ovals because that's what I'm usually
using when drawing faces. It's this elongated oval
with these stylized pass. Then of course we
have lines which are straight, are also horizontal. As you can see, I'm trying
to follow the same placement of the line just to practice
creating straight shapes. All right, I think this is
enough for the warm up. I will create a new layer. I will hide this one. Now let's sketch a face
just as a warm up. Again, for the next lesson, I will start with a circle. As you can see, it's not perfect circle. Let's
try that again. Okay, I think this is better. Then I will create
a straight line going through the middle. Then I will connect these lines. You can always use eraser if you want to
adjust some of these lines. All right, as we
connected these lines, I will create one line
here under the circle. Then I will create a
line where the circle is meeting the
outside oval shape. And then another one here. Then I will place another
one in between these two. If you want to practice
drawing more faces, I have other classes
for that as well. Then I will add the neck here, which are two curved
lines perfect. Now I will reduce the
opacity of this one. I will draw on top of it first. I will place the nose, which will be the
bottom of the nose, somewhere here in the
middle of the face. Then the mouth. This
is the top lip. The bottom lip again,
As I mentioned, I have another about whole, how to simplify and how you can stylize different ways of
drawing facial features. Check that out if you want
to explore different shapes. Now I will draw an eye here. I will have the character
looking to the side. I will draw the second eye. And I'm still using the same brush, perfect. And then I will suggest a few lines as a
bridge of the nose. And then I will add hair. And we will look at different hairstyles later on as well. Now I'm just using
simple shapes to create like a short
bob hairstyle. Of course, you can add
longer hair if you want to, but we'll be using that
again when we draw in color. But I wanted to use this as
a warm because I will not be using the split of the
face in the later lessons. Now, I will make the
chin a little bit and we need to
still add eyebrows. You can always move the facial features around
with the selection tool. For example, if you want to move maybe the nose
and the mouth, I can just select them and
move them slightly lower. You can always zoom in to place it exactly where you
want it to be perfect. I think this is good enough
for the practice exercise. You can always redefine it on a separate layer
if you want to, reducing the sketch layer. Now when you created
this first sketch, you can just redefine it
with more confident strokes. Practice and draw your strokes, or the drawing will become
more confident and you can create more lines
and they can become more loose the more you draw. But even then, sometimes
you can get more rusty if you don't
draw often enough. Always give yourself
a time to practice and just do some warm
up sketches before you draw something like
bigger or you feel like that the
drawing that you're making is not exactly
what you wanted. All right, and now let's
move on to the next lesson.
3. Values: Now let's briefly
talk about values, the black and white
and dark and light. This illustration, I put a layer on top where I can see the
black and white values. It's just layer of dark
color set to color. Now I can create
a new layer so I can tell you a little bit
more about what I mean. I'll just move this illustration
here more to the side. When thinking about
values and portraits, it's good to think
about contrast, right? We can have high contrast
with the background. Then maybe you can have a gray tone of the portrait
right in front of it. You can still see these values. If I have very dark background and I will have white here, we have much higher
contrast, right? Let me move this
here to the side. Always think about the spectrum of values that you are going to create if your illustration is in the darker spectrum
or lighter spectrum. If we start with light colors, then let's switch to classic. Then I will move the
slider a little bit, which is only value slider, you will go darker here. We have to make sure
that we don't have any blue in this gray
which I think we had. I will continue with this one, then move this slider a little bit darker, even more. Let's create a darker one. Of course, you can create bigger and smaller spectrum
of these as much as you want, but let's sketch like a simple
character, for example. If I take a darker spectrum and I will create
that as a skin tone, I would want maybe slightly
lighter for the hair. I can still see it because if I would
take the same value, which is super
close to this one, I would not see the contrast between the hair and the face. For the T shirt, I can
something even lighter. Now if I work with
the lighter tones, I can make the shirt very light. The skin tone in the
mid value range. Let me fix this neck. The hair will be darker. I can move these to the side, so we can draw one more, then I can create the skin
tone in this mid value range. Let's make the hair just slightly darker.
Let's see if that works. Okay, this is too close. I need to make the
hair maybe lighter. Then the shirt will be a little bit darker
so we can still see it. All right, with this exercise
I just wanted to show you, always think about
the value ranges where you are on the
spectrum from light to dark. How your character
will work together, will still see the face and
the details on the face, the hair, and maybe the outfit. This is something to think about when you create
your characters. Every time you create
your color palette, you can always turn on
and create one new layer with just dark color and
set it to color here, the blending mode color to check your values if you can still see the difference
between the hair, skin and shirt in the
stylized portraits. Now let's move to
the next lesson.
4. Starting with Color Hues: Now let's talk about the skin
tones because it's one of the hardest things
to draw when drawing stylized characters or
semi realistic characters. Because skin can be
virtually any color, that's very hard to
decide what colors to use when drawing the
face of the character. Let's start simple, and
I will show you where I usually start when
opening the color palate. I usually start somewhere between the red
and orange stones. And I'm using the
classic preview mode. The slider I usually
have somewhere up here, you can see you have more
orange reddish stones. When you slide the top slider, you can go either more
to the cool tones, because you have the
green and blues here. Or more to the red
tones here to the left. Let's start somewhere here. Let's catch a little bit here. On the top, we have
some starting point. This is one of the colors
that I just showed you. This illustration is
from my other class. If you want to check
out how to draw dynamic poses as
you can see here, I try to create a little
bit of variety in skin tones and the characters
as we started here. You can move, of course, more to the left, which here are less
saturated colors. But if you move to the left top, you will create lighter colors. As you can see, this
slider is moving. You can use these
two sliders as well. If I move more to the left top, I can create lighter skin tone. Now if I sample again
this mid range, what we created, I can
slide here to the right. If you go just to the right, it will become more saturated. But if you slide as
to the bottom right, then it gets also darker. All right, we have
some base here. If I sample the colors, what I used in
this illustration, you will see there
is even bigger value range then of course, it's not only
darker and lighter, but it's also warmer and
a little bit cooler. As you can see, these colors
are not exactly the same. This one feels a little bit
more warmer than this one. This one has this cooler, going almost to the blue in color range as we talked
in the previous lesson. Also in this illustration, I was thinking about the values. I should still be able to see the difference between the
hair and the skin tone. Now let me show you
another concept. What I'm usually
thinking about that is creating still like
light skin tones and darker skin tones, but also thinking about
warm and cool colors.
5. Warm and Cool: All right, let's start with
more neutral mid tones and which are still pretty light because as we have the light
colors here on the top. So let's start with those. I will sketch this. It pale color. You don't have to have
exactly the same colors. Because again, with mixing skin tones and the
colors in general, I think you can just have something interesting which
works with your other colors. Don't feel pressured to have
exactly the same color. Now if we go to the
color palate and we move the slider little
bit towards the oranges, we will get a little
bit warmer color tone. We can also move the slider
little bit up to the right. Then we get this a little
bit warmer, lighter tone. Going from here to here, we will have a
little bit warmer. Now if we go back to the color palette
or the color wheel, we will move our slider
towards the red tones, because we are getting
through the red spectrum, towards the blue tones. You can see it on the disc. If you move from here, this direction, you are going
towards the cool tones. And before we move
towards the red tones, let's go back to this preview. Now I have this
bright, pinkish color. I will move the slider more towards the less
saturated tones. I will get this pinkish color, which is maybe too bright. I can still move it a
little bit higher up. It's less saturated, but it can be this nice
pinkish skin color. If you are more into
this type of look that can be paired
maybe with white hair, which can be pretty nice. What you can do, you can
make it even lighter. But you can see
here we move from more neutral light tone towards the warmer or
towards the cooler. Now let's move and
create darker tones. I will sample this
more neutral tone in between these two to
move to the next color. If I open the color wheel again, I am still in these red tones, Between the orange and red. And now I can move the slider
towards the right bottom. All right, I can have this
neutral, medium dark. Then if I go again to the
color wheel and I will move the color or the hue shift
more towards the yellows, I will get this warmer tone. And then I can move the
slider towards right as well. Perfect. Now I can go back
to the color wheel. I can move the slider
again direction. The cool tones. Again, direction. Because
we have the blue, we are going around
the color wheel. Now we have the
bright red tones. I need to make it a little
bit less saturated. Let's test it out. It's quite cool skin tone, which is maybe too
pinkish for my liking. I can move the
slider a little bit towards the warmer colors, but maybe not too much. Okay, it's still cooler
than this mid tone. Now let's move to
the darker tone. I will take this neutral tone, open the color wheel, and then again move the slider
towards the bottom right, but not going completely to the darker tones because
we might not see them. You can always test it out. I can go somewhere here. Again, if you want
to use darker tones, think about the values, what color you will use for
the hair and the outfit. Your illustration
is still readable. All right, so we
have this mid tone. Then I can go again
to the color wheel, or the color square
in this case. Then move the slider
toward the oranges and make it more saturated by
going to the top right. Maybe we can still
make it a little bit darker by going to the
bottom right corner. All right, now let's sample this middle tone or mid
tone in our overview. Go to the color wheel. Let's move the slider
toward the red, which is more cooler. Then I will move the slider here towards the less saturated
tones and test it out. I think this works as well. Think about not only going from lighter values
to darker values, but also think about
lighter values and spectrum of warmer tones and cooler tones in
relationship to each other. And also towards the
darker value tones. Thinking about, again, the warmer tones versus the cooler tones in the
similar value spectrum. All right, now let's move
on to the next lesson.
6. Color Pairing: Now let's briefly talk about creating simple color palettes. Limiting yourself when creating the small mini portraits or
the character illustrations. For example, I created a new layer so I
can sketch on top. But within this type of
lighter tones, for example, with the warmer shade, I usually like to go
towards the cooler colors. I would maybe choose like less saturated blue
and test it out. If it works next to
my skin tone here, this one is too saturated. I would move it closer to gray tones, it's
less saturated. I think that would work
nicer within the skin tone. Then I can test out similar color with
this darker skin tone. For this one, I think
it's maybe too dark. I can go a little bit
lighter and then maybe move towards the blue tones
and see if that works. I think that can
work quite nicely. Can also test out some
of the green tones. As you see here, I use
the less saturated green. Maybe I can move there. It's like this
darker, minty green. I think with this one
it works quite nicely. Or I can use similar color
with the colder skin tones. And then you have the two cooler tones next to each other. Because this one is
still in greener tones, then the skin tone actually
looks a little bit warmer than before
without this green tone. For example, with this
darker shade I can use may also blue
tone or pink tone. I can move towards the purple pink tones
and test out that color. I think this is maybe
too desaturated, but again, not too bad. I can also go more
towards saturated colors. How it next to the
skin color the plant. Maybe this one looks
too saturated. Next to this one, I can move towards gray and
a little bit darker. I think these two are
very close in value, but maybe not too bad. If you check the
values dark and light, they will be very close. What I can do here
is go more towards the red tones and slightly more saturated
and also darker. Okay, now they are even closer. I think this color can work better with the
lighter skin tone, or actually maybe even
the lightest one. And here I can make it
still a little bit lighter. Yeah, I think this works better. Then I can try some of the
purple tones less saturated. Very light purple. That can work maybe
with the mid tone, or actually maybe
with a darker tone. A little bit better. Maybe
a little bit darker. Yeah, I like this
type of color tone. Together with that, then
we can try maybe some of the yellow and then use quite saturated colors and
test it out with this one, I think this can work. Maybe the skin tone can
be a little bit lighter. You can test it
out with this one. I think these are very similar. In this case, I would go
for maybe even gray shirt. In this case, it doesn't work. I can try like blue and
more saturated blue. I think this works. You can test out your
own pairing of colors. What works next to which color, how much contrast you actually like in your illustrations. If you prefer to have quite realistic colors in
the stylized portraits, or you want to stay only
within the bright color tones, or you want to balance it out. I will create more
color palettes, which hopefully I'm able
to share with you soon. So you can try out and test out the color palettes
that I prepared for you. But meanwhile, you can
play around and see what color combinations you
like for your mini portraits. Now let's move to the next part.
7. Character Portrait One: Now let's start sketching
the characters. As I showed you in
the previous lesson, you can create your
own cal pallet and don't use any reference
for this exercise. I prepared a reference kind like a mood board so we
can get some inspiration from in this cos of images
I used images from. There are variety of portraits, but sometimes it's quite hard to find the best reference images. You can also go to
Pinterest or Google to find better reference
images that you like more. I will start maybe with
something with the shorter hair. As you can see, they are not
all from the frontal view. What I will use is
like a combination of these two from the skin tone. Again, I will start somewhere in between the orange
reddish tones. Then I will move the slider up, then a little bit
more towards yellows. And even maybe then I will create a loose sketch for the oval that we
practiced before, then the chin shape. Then I will create a
new layer for the hair. For the hairstyle I
want to use hairstyle, Let's find some pink tone. I will move towards the
red tones, actually, even in this spectrum, just cooler red then going
down, cool something here. As you can see, there is
a little bit of the skin visible where the hair is split. So I can add that, then for
the highlight of the hair, I can just move slightly higher and less
saturated in this case, then I can erase parts, the hairstyle here at the bottom and add
few loose strands. I think that's good enough. Then I will add the neck for this one and we will add the shadow
on a separate layer. I can add the dark shirt. I think that will work
maybe in the blue tones, like a dark blue shirt. For this illustration, I will create the shoulders which
are a little bit more narrow, and then I can add maybe a few lighter dots just to create some kind
of texture on the shirt. And we need to add some
hair behind the neck. Okay, maybe we can actually
have shorter neck. What I can do is select this part and move
the whole thing a little bit higher and erase part
of the neck perfect. Now let's add the face. I'll make the brush a
little bit smaller. And as before, you
can draw simple eyes. In this case, I can
make them maybe blue, but it needs to be darker
so it's visible against the skin. Can zoom in. Then I can take the
skin tone and make it darker and more saturated. So I can draw the middle part of the nose just to suggest
the breach of the nose. And then the shadow under the nose now make
it even darker. Now we can draw
lips for this one. I think I will go for
warm red color tones and the shadow under the lips for the
highlight on the cheeks. I think I will take
the pinkish tone, maybe from the skin tone
and then going towards the red tones and
slightly darker. And then you can test it out. Maybe it can be more saturated then the shadow under the skin, under the chin. I will make more saturated
reddish brown color. Maybe you can take the
face layer and create the clipping mask
to the skin layer so you can create the shadow
under the chin easier. It stays only on the layer. If you zoom out, you can always check
the face shape. If it is not symmetrical, it doesn't have to be perfect. But you can always fix it by adjusting these two layers
because now they are separate. What I need to do now
to the face shape, but I need to delete also
from the hair shape. If you want to make
your life easier, you can either
make it perfect on a first go or do the sketch. But sometimes I just like to
go directly into the color. All right, and now I can
add the skin perfect. Okay, now we can move
to the next character just to play around with these shapes and
create more of them.
8. Character Portrait Two: Now let's draw another character
using the same process. I will place the other
character somewhere here. Let's take a different
reference image. I like the orangey red
tones on this one, and also the shorter
hair, maybe in between. From the color palettes, I will create a new
layer from the colors. I will move again, more to the orange red tones. As before, I will
select some mid range, warm skin tone and
create the face shape. I will make the brush
a little bit bigger. Right now, I am not creating like variety in facial features, which you usually
have in characters. We are just keeping it simple, mostly focusing on colors. I need to move higher. I will create a new layer for
the hair and for the hair, I will stay in this color range, but I will move towards the
darker, more saturated tones. Now for the outfit for this one, I think I will
create a new layer. Go to the colo pallet, and I will take
something more in the orange tones,
maybe bright orange. And let's see if that will work. And maybe I will
create a sweater. I think it needs to be
a little bit brighter, or I need to make the skin
tone a little bit lighter. Let's try making the
sweater brighter. Maybe the skin tone a
little bit different, maybe a little bit colder. And see how that looks slightly warmer and brighter. Let's see what that does. Maybe a little bit
lighter. It's too. I need to go more to darker tones and I think
that works better. All right, now
let's add a phase. I will create the clipping mask and I will draw the
face, same as before. You can always move it, as I mentioned before, and even make it smaller
just to match the other eye. Now I will take the brown color and I will draw the
suggestion of the nose. And then I will take slightly lighter color than
I have the skin tone here, so I can create a little bit of a highlight on top of the nose. I think I will follow this one and make it
more saturated here, a little bit darker. I think that would work
better. Let's try that out. Yeah, I think that works better. Now, I will deactivate
the Alpha Og. I will take the lighter color
from the nose highlight, make it a little bit lighter. I will add a little bit of the light color
also above the eyes, we can see them a
little bit better. Now, I will take the same
color from this nose it's, and make it maybe even. I will test out the
lips in that color. Okay. I think I need to move
them slightly to the left. All right. And I think I will move the whole phase
a little bit lower. Okay. And now I can add
the shadow under the chin and maybe make it a little bit darker just under the chin. Okay. And then we can add, the cheeks may be in brighter orange and
maybe slightly cooler. So let's test that out that I quite like it. All right. And then
maybe I can add a small detail on the sweater, just few lines here. All right? I think
this is pretty cute. Then I can resize this character because it's a little bit bigger
than the other one. I need to select all
of these layers. I can move it, make it slightly smaller so they are
in similar sizes. All right, and now we can move
on to the next character.
9. Character Portrait Three: All right, for this character, I added a few darker shades behind the neck and few
highlights as well, and some loose hair strands As we did with this character, I also made the lips a little bit darker compared
to the skin tone. Now let's move on to
another character. I was thinking maybe something with the
fringe can be nice. Let's create this
type of character. I will it with a combination
of something else. I want to have the fringe, but a little bit skin
tone than this one. We have variety. I will zoom in, go to the color tones
and maybe take something mid range and cooler. And I have to check if
I'm on a new layer. So I need to create a new layer. Oops, I need to start again, because my color moved, which is not optimal. Okay, Maybe something like this. Let's see. Okay, I
think that works. And later I can
always adjust it. Maybe for this one I can create a sweater in like mint green. I just take any green. And then I move the slider, I need to go more towards blues. Then I think I can sketch the
sweater on the same layer, but it has to be less
saturated and still more blue. In a mood to sketch sweaters
this time of the year, I think it can go even
more minty, bluish green. Let's see if I can
drop the color. Okay. Maybe more
saturated and more blue. And I kind of like also the adjustment of
the skin tone here. It's quite interesting. Okay, I think I like
this call combination, so I'll just clean up
the edges a little bit. Okay. And I will
create a new layer for the hair this time. I think I will use
more bluish tones, even though on this
reference it's more warm. I will go for this
dark blue tone, and maybe it can be actually
a little bit lighter. Let's see, maybe even lighter. Okay, I can always
adjust the color. A little bit later, I will
have this like angled fringe, then I will create longer hair, which they go to the
shoulder and then continue here around the sweater
and framing the face. I will erase a little
bit from the fringe and draw some of these
parts back in the. I will also add a highlight
in a lighter blue tone. This is maybe two purple. I will move towards
more saturated blues, something like this, and see if that works, or if I like it. All of these color choices
are quite subjective. Of course, you need to choose
something that you like. Then I will add a highlight
here on the edge, because the hair is pretty dark, so we still want to see it. And now I will add the face on the new layer, same as before. Now I need to draw a nose. So I will take the
skin tone and move towards the darker and
more saturated shades. And now even darker
for the darker shadow. Now for the lips, I think I can select something more orange. But it's up to you. You can also go more towards
the cooler red tones. We can try that as well. This character has it
more cooler, dark. You can also try that, even something like this. But I think on this
character we have a lot of cold tones like
bluish and greenish. I will keep it more
in the warmer colors and then need to add eyebrows. Maybe they will be
better in black. They don't blend too much with the fringe because the fringe is quite low here in this case, as you can see, if you want to double check the
placement of stuff, you can always flip the canvas. You can go here and flip the canvas and check the
placement of the eyes. I can see here, it's
a little bit lower. I can fix it here. Check if the eyes
are the same size. I can also check the placement of the
nose, it's more balanced. And also the lips. Maybe I can straighten up
this fringe a little bit more because it might
feel like it's too much. I think I erase that
from here as well. So I need to go to
the correct layer here and maybe erase
a little bit here. Okay, now I can flip
the canvas back. We are still missing the
shadow under the chin, which I can use the lips as a
start create clipping mask. I have to move it here. Now I can easily create the shadow for the cheeks. I will go for still
saturated color. Maybe a little bit colder, but lighter than the
shadow and the lips. All right, I think this
one works pretty nicely. So we already have
three characters and we have lots of references. So of course, you can continue creating more of these
characters as practice. You don't have to
keep them perfect, just create more of them. It's a good exercise,
drawing characters. I will continue creating
more of these characters.
10. Character Portrait Four: All right, now let's
draw another portrait. I will move this one to the side from the
reference images. I think maybe we can draw this one because we don't have any blonde
character just yet. As before, I will start choosing the skin tone somewhere in between the red
and orange colors. This one, maybe I
can push towards the green tones a little
bit more, the cooler tones. And then we can
always adjust it. Let's move a little
bit more towards the oranges and make
it more saturated. It's very pale, but this
one as a reference image, I feel like the skin
tone is not too pinkish, it's more in the
orange ochre shades. We can try that and also
basically stylize it more, it's a little bit darker. We can test out something like this or maybe a
little bit more saturated. Let's see, I need to
move this one even more then I need to
create a new layer. I will go to the top layer
and create a new layer. Test out this color tone. Yeah, I think it can work. Let's create the base
shape for the face. As you can see, I'm creating similar face shape for
all of these characters. Just to practice skin tones for the shapes of the heads and facial features
and human body. It comes in all
shapes and sizes. This would need to
be another class, as you know, for the
facial features. I have separate class
which you can watch. All right, let's move this shape a little
bit to the side. And we can of course,
redefine it by adding hair. It doesn't really matter that
this shape is not perfect. Now we are on the same layer. I need to cut it out
and cut and paste. Now we are on a separate layer. Now I will add
hair for this one. The hair and the skin
tone is pretty similar, but you can see here a little bit greenish tone from reflected light
from the trees. Probably I will take the
inspiration from there, and I will use less
saturated blond tones. That means I will move even more towards
the green colors, making it more colder. Then I will go higher up with the lighter colors
and less saturation. Not so much saturation, and we will test it out as
I quite like her hairstyle. Let's try to create
something similar. But maybe we don't need to create a long hair because
we have a long hair here, so let's create shorter hair. Now I have to redefine the
pace a little bit more. This type of approach is
almost like sculpting because I'm not doing the sketching and I'm just
imagining the proportions. And reshaping and sculpting the colors into shapes depends what you are
more comfortable with. If you prefer creating a sketch for yourself
before coloring, of course you can do that too when creating messy hairstyle like this here at the bottom. Just make sure that
the hair is connected in the same height
behind the neck. It looks quite natural. I think in this case we can create even lighter hair tone. I will move the slider a little bit to the left
and maybe less saturated. It's like this colder, pale pink, yellow
for the highlights. I will use maybe warmer, still less saturated just
to separate the hair, create a little bit
more of the definition. These are not highlights, but more like
shadows in the hair. Here we need to
define the curve. As you can see there
is this shadow. And you can watch my
class about drawing hair. If you want to learn more, I will do the same on this side, perfect. I think the
skin tone can be a little bit lighter and a
little bit more saturated. So let's see. Okay,
maybe like this. See? Okay, No,
this is too light. Just slightly. Okay, I think this works. And now let's add face for the nose. As before, I will go for
more saturated color, just to suggest the reach of the nose and then
the bottom of the nose. Then the darker color
for the nostrils, then for the lips,
maybe something orange. Yeah, I think that
can work nicely. Yeah, I think this color works. Then for the cheeks, maybe something a
little bit colder. This, if you remember colder. We are going around the circle
direction to the blues. Not here but this way. And then I can add cheeks. I think it's still quite subtle and works
with this skin tone. We still need to
add the eyebrow, and maybe in this case, because the character is blonde, we can go more for
browner tones, not black. It fits a little bit more
with that blond hair. I think we don't need this line because the hair goes
across the face. We can maybe add
another strand of hair, then align the
sides of the face. I need to erase this
part a little bit. It's even on both sides. All right, and I need the
shadow under the chin, which can be based on these red nones but
a little bit darker. So let's test that out. I think that works.
And then maybe I can make it a little
bit more saturated. I need to create alphalog. Okay, I quite like it. Remove the alphalog. Think I will move this
eye a little bit lower. I like the proportions like
that a little bit more. I will also move the nose and mouth a
little bit lower as well. And I will still work a
little bit on the shape of the face because it's
still uneven here. I will remove a little bit of the hair. All right. I think this works. And now I will just add a shirt. I will make this one more round, it's nice neck line for the shirt because we will create a separate
layer for the shirt. New layer, it's behind
all the other layers. For this one, I think
we can create something similar in like the hair. I will select the
hair and then move the slider towards
the blue tones. And maybe that will
work right away. And I think that's working now. I can just create a shirt
here behind the hair. Just connect the shape
and drop the color and clean up the edges and maybe a lighter
spots into the T shirt. Now looking at it, I think I can make the hair a
little bit longer, so it goes behind the back. But because it's on a
separate layer on top, I just need to follow the same line as we just
created for the shirt. All right, I think this works. And we created a bunch of
different characters and I will continue filling up the
page with more characters. I will prepare that one as a time live video so
you can watch it. If you want to see more of these characters based on
some of these references, I will do that in
the next lessons. I'm looking forward to see
your versions for the project.
11. Character Portraits Five and Six: Oh. Oh. A.
12. Character Portraits Seven and Eight: Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. To
13. Summary: I added few more characters combining different skin tones
with different hair colors and different lip colors and different cheek
highlight colors. Trying to really mix and match different color palettes
for each character. As you can see, I
have one here as well with pink hair,
which I quite like. Then I have another one here
with darker hair color, more like ten skin
with blonde hair. Then we have one more with
darker hair and darker skin. As you can see, we have
quite nice variety of different characters and I can't wait to see
what you create. And maybe you can also write in your description or the review, which color skin tone you are, which hair do you
have just or you can illustrate yourself
or your friend. That would be also fun to see. Thank you so much for watching
and see you next time.
14. Outro: How did it go? I can't wait to see all your
awesome artwork. Please share your drawings
and illustrations, also the work in
progress if you want. In the project section, if you want to expand on the knowledge you
learned in this class. You can watch my other
classes about characters, also about colors called color palette and color
and light master class. Visit my teacher
profile to find them. If you would like me to share
your projects on Instagram, please take me in the
Instagram stories in the post and
post description. I can help you and your art to be discovered
by more people. Thank you so much
for watching and see you in the next class. Bye.
Iva Mikles, Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life
