Darlene - portrait painting

[eighty+]

Hi. Daniel have had a try with the knife s you can see but is it ok to use other tools for the fine lines ?? I've

taken copy's of your's so I can see more in detail if its ok with you YES or NO ok Regards Ploos

[eighty+]

HI Daniel OK I've had a bash with the knife overall I'm quiet pleased with the result even though I only used the Knife
on her face and hair then went back to my fav the air brush as it was quicker for me ok I've posted my copy on my thread that's if you want to see it but thanks again for showing me how as I did enjoy it CIAO SLAINTE

[L Skylar Brown]

Excellent work.

[Daniel Aubert]

Hi. Daniel have had a try with the knife s you can see but is it ok to use other tools for the fine lines ?? I've

taken copy's of your's so I can see more in detail if its ok with you YES or NO ok Regards Ploos

Cool. Yeah, it is ok to use another tool for drawing first. But it also depends on each person way of drawing, haha. I personally don't like to use the air brush. I think it is too "digital". In "Darlene" I only used the oil brush at the beginning to make a rough sketch, as you can see in the process pictures. Then the rest was 98% palette knife on the same layer, so in the final piece you can't even see the oil brush strokes. Just used a custom brush to add some rake details.

With the palette knife, I try to think about the planes of the face, tilting the pen in orther to get he right angles. At the same time paying attention to value and color, proportion as well. I like to use this tool because of the texture and because I think it mixes color better than theoil brush. But it is a matter of taste of course. And I also found out that if you use a less textured canvas (like the default paper one that comes when you open Artrage) you get more bump texture from the pallete kinfe. And you have to tweak a bit with the settings. I used these seetings for this painting:



And YES it is ok to take a copy of it, haha!

[Daniel Aubert]

Oh, and in order to enhance the bump texture of the painting, when it was finished, I duplicated the layer and changed the bump blending mode to "Add". So you can really see it better.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

[eighty+]

Hi Daniel. I lost when it comes to layers. So your info on the bumb and add is beyond my ken Ok.