Girl Picking Her Face - Process and Final (Patreon)

Hello Patrons!!

I have decided for this process post that I would post a VIDEO instead. A timelapse… But I will still write about it also. 

I COMPLETELY forgot how to draw for this one. I wanted to make a companion drawing to my girl in the rain drawing where they look the same but with different vibe. So this girl is a bit messier and mm…. alternative. It starts out self explanatory: I get the sketch down and all that yadda yadda throw some fun colors in there as the base. Then my problems immediately start. I sketch out some basic colors to start rendering but then it simply turns to chaos. I do not know how to render. I pull up a bunch of references of people in profile and get to work. 

They all look good! But for one I start doing linework on top and don’t realize that it isn’t a separate layer and it is too far gone to undo. So I just give up. The second to last one looks great!! But I just keep getting it so muddy and past a certain point I do not know how to clean it up and it’s way too orange and everything I do to it makes it look terrible. The last one I put some purpley GRAY colors down and it looks fine. She looks like a DEAD FISH but it’s fine. I render that a bunch more and more can’t get the profile right can’t get the eye shape right… Then I finish rendering and it looks great but I like the sketch more!!! So I turn the opacity of my rendered layer like to half way and then I just merge the sketch and final render together. I add a brighter and more orangey color on top of all of that to make her look less like a dead fish. UGH it will have to do!! 

That being said, the hands were pleasantly easy to draw :-) I used my own hands for reference (as I did with the girl in the rain one) and that was that. I pulled colors from the face to use for the hands. Typically the darkest dark and lightest light. I was careful to not render the hands more than the face and tried to keep the contrast level similar. 

The hair was pretty fun! I mostly just used a grungey semi-opaque brush for the base and then use a more detailed brush to carve out the silhouette and add details. Nearer the top, it’s just the base with a lighter highlight color. The bottom has a bit more purple that I simply found in the drawing, hiding, and I use that to make some shadows. I am really into drawing little squares in their hair and around the place to make the drawing kinda glitchy or geometric…

I wanted to draw something around her like the rain but was too stupid or something. I gave her some subtle tattoos instead.

I hope u like it.