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How to Paint a Female Portrait in Photoshop – Video Slideshow

August 13th, 2009 No comments

How to Paint a Female Portrait in Photoshop

August 10th, 2009 No comments

A step by step tutorial demonstrating my process in creating a female portrait in Photoshop. The process is similar to traditional painting in oils and acrylics. I rely heavily on solid art fundamentals, especially head drawing. Since drawing is so important, we’ll explore that first.

STEP 1: “Laying-In” the head

A head ‘lay-in’ is the foundation drawing. It is used to describe and lay-in the basic structure of the subject’s head and the placement of the facial features. An accurate and effective lay-in is critical to the success of the portrait.

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How to Paint a Sexy Girl – Tutorial Video

July 21st, 2009 No comments


A short slideshow video of the last digital painting tutorial. Video has text comments and a cool soundtrack by Japanese DJ group ‘Force of Nature’.

How to Paint a Sexy Girl in Photoshop

July 14th, 2009 3 comments

A step by step tutorial on how to paint a sexy female figure in Photoshop. You can also see my workflow, thought process and general tips on creating beautiful figurative art.

STEP 0: Setting up the workspace

I generally keep my workspace very minimal. I keep my canvas zoomed out and have my pre-made color palette in a separate window. I treat this window like a traditional oil palette and mix and pick my colors from this window. My main monitor, a Cintiq, was also my tablet. My reference image is on the second monitor.

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