Good evening.
Lately I feel quite inspired to draw and today I have captured an idea that I had in mind for days, it's been a long time since I drew candles and I have really lost the practice, but the important thing is that I tried it and I think it looked pretty good in combination with this palette of colors between cold and warm, I feel it is a super interesting combination and I do not remember if I have used it before but I really liked it, I hope you also like it.
I made my sketch and chose the colors to work with, this time I used mostly blue and lilac tones for the skin and also an orange and pink tone for the areas I wanted to illuminate, I was thinking of drawing the candles on the shoulder so I added the light right on the neck, chin, nose and shoulder, in a new layer I added more colors to give it a better shape, to guide me better, I changed the background to the color I wanted to use which in this case was a very dark blue, then I painted the hair with black.
I added a very faint orange in the background just behind the silhouette, then I started to detail the skin mixing the colors with a medium opacity and a hard brush, I detailed a little more the eyes and then the lips, I also added some lighting in the hair with small orange light reflections, I painted the silhouette of the candles and started to add white tones, grays, oranges and purples, after a while experimenting I was satisfied with the shape the candles had taken, I painted the fire and then I started to add more details like lights in the face and eyes, I also made a color adjustment and it occurred to me to add a shadow on the body with two dark lines simulating the shadow of a window reflecting on her.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro