How I Paint Digital Portraits in Krita

hello everyone raven here i just wanted to create a short video regarding my painting process in greta and now i would go about creating my digital portraits that i post on instagram so if you want to learn a thing or two about my process then keep on watching so first and foremost i start off with a sketch i just draw a simple circle to represent the cranium of the character and then drawing the jaw using very straight lines and keeping in mind to use lots of angles in creating it because we want to build form and structure and we want our character to look very volumetric instead of flat as you can see i am adding a sort of cross at the center of the face the vertical line is just supposed to represent the center line of the face so that you know things are symmetrical and then the line that is slightly horizontal will represent where the eyebrows will go later on when i draw portraits of people in the three-quarter view i always look for that angle where the brow ridge and the nose will meet and i always draw that first then the eyebrows and eyes then proceed to draw the other features depending on how i'm feeling so i think in this process i did the nose then the mouth then the jaw and then the ears and the hairline and the body so yeah and don't be afraid to use the transform tools that are in creta they are extremely helpful and i use them a lot in my process as you can see i use them to reshape noses to fix any asymmetry and broken anatomy i especially love using the liquify tool and by the way i'm actually using a reference photo for this portrait it is extremely useful to use reference especially when you're still a beginner doing this so don't pressure yourself into drawing everything from imagination and don't be one of those kids who's like i will use a reference for this one like no we can tell and not only will references make sure that your drawings look decent you'll also make sure that you're learning something whenever you're making a new artwork and that you're filling your visual library with accurate information and i'll link down below the instagram account of the person in the image that i used so go check her out and i also didn't record it but i colored the line art bright orange color so how you do it is basically you turn on the alpha inheritance i think that little shape at the top and then you take the color that you want which is a bright orange or a bright red and then you click that arrow thing to sort of make it your background color and then you click backspace and then it will color your line art the bright orange so yeah this is just to help with blending later on so that your image won't look gray when you're when you start blending in the line art with the colors of the portrait this is especially important when drawing people of color and people of dark complexions because you don't want to make them look ashy girl you don't again just some more reshaping using the transform tools liquify and just flipping the canvas to make sure that everything is proportional i always make sure that the sketch is pretty solid before i move on to the coloring because for me it is the most important part of the art piece it'll be your sort of guide in how you will color the portrait later on trust me you cannot save a bad sketch with fancy rendering later on like no that's not how it works make sure that the foundation is right before you move on with a coloring process so with the coloring process i just start off with blocking in the silhouette of the character with a sort of base color that's gonna be your skin tone later on and then i also put on a sort of grayish background because i don't like painting on white my images always end up looking a little too bright when i paint with a white background on so yeah and then i used that silhouette of the character to make a clipping mask or in this case with krita a clipping group for the coloring process what i do is to say you just right click the layer of the base color and then i select group and then quick clipping group and there will be a mask layer on top of the base and this is just to make sure that you won't be painting over the silhouette that you already created with the base layer and any other layer that is on top with alpha inheritance on will also have the same effect you won't be able to paint over the silhouette so yeah this is just to keep things clean and to make things easier so in that clipping group i add different layers for the different parts of the person like their hair their clothing and their skin this is how i actually start the coloring process first i add the dark accents of the face in the case of this image it is the eyebrows the lashes the liner the iris since he has dark eyes the nostrils the shadows in her lips and the cast shadow on her neck and under the clothes on that same shading layer i also add the less dark shadows that are in the image so i add the side plane of their face and make it darker the crease in your eyes i just use the reference as a guide to wear to place the shadows and make sure to use simple shapes and not to complicate things too much in this part of the process our goal in this part is just to establish shadow areas and separate them from the mid tones and the highlights don't expect this to look that good yet we're gonna get there calm down jerome after getting to a point where i feel like we're getting a bit of volume now i then proceed to adding the highlights again keep things simple don't complicate the shapes too much i literally just added a rectangle on her forehead right now then i added a bit of lighting information on her eye region i just emulated her eye look that she has on in the photo and then i added some shadows in the lashes and i painted on the whites of the eye and remember when painting on the sort of whites as they call it don't literally make it white this region called the sclera is more of a grayish desaturated version of the skin tone like a lighter version of that at least that's how i approach it and as you can see my process is pretty simple i established the shadow areas the light areas and then add some nuances to them later on based on the reference there's really nothing more to it [Music] then i repeat that with the other parts like the hair the accessories and the clothing and as you may notice everything that i'm doing right now is still under the sketch layer after i feel like we've we've created a solid image under the sketch layer that's when i merge the visible layers and then paint over the sketches i actually struggled with the jewelry part i try to make it sort of abstract and like sort of implied painting like kind of like blocked us on a lot of his paintings with metal and jewelry in it but didn't work but it's okay i'm just gonna cover it up with sparkles later on is my voice annoying i feel like it is so this is when i actually made a big mistake in this image i merged the visible layers but forgot to turn off the background so i merged the character with the background big mistake i had to erase everything by hand later on don't worry you won't have to see it i didn't record it i feel like it would just be boring anyways now i am at the rendering process where i am painting over the lines that we made in the sketch and making it more realistic and also adding some details especially in the eye region because i want to draw more attention there therefore i add more shabam to it you know this is the part that i talked about early on i just added the sort of sparkles and the jewelry using a pencil sort of texture brush and using the color dodge mode to add some glowing effects so i just added them cross shaped thing you know that's pretty much it for the subject of this painting i just use the smudge brush so that we can get some softer blending in some areas but make sure to not overuse it because we created some hard edges and beautiful shapes early on to make the image more appealing and you don't want to lose all of it with just blending everything into like a blob of color it is again to keep things looking volumetric instead of flat so it's okay to blend some areas but make sure to leave in some hard edges because if you don't then your image will just look blurry i approached the background in a very random and chaotic way i just randomly slap on different colors and pray for the best no kidding i paint on random shapes of colors and then i use various blending mounts to make them look interesting and also play around with the levels the color balance and the curves i also added a sort of cast shadow behind the character so just make her look like she is part of the image and she is actually standing in front of the background i also play around with filters as a part of the final steps of rendering the piece to just give it a little bit of texture lastly i export the image as png and send it to my phone actually because different monitors show your artwork in a very different way the colors look very different in different monitors for example um samsung phones will show color in a very dynamic way it's make it it makes it very saturated in contrast to ios devices which is sort of less saturated colors i also noticed that my laptop has purplished into it and as a result my images always look slightly greenish and tint so i fixed that on my phone using snapseed just very minor touches it doesn't really add much to what is already shown in the speed paint just very minor touches the color and yes that is pretty much it for my digital painting process i hope you found it helpful interesting entertaining i don't know comment down below what you think about it comment down below any ideas for future videos that you want to see maybe i could do a detailed eye tutorial i don't know comment please and also follow me on instagram and twitter at prisonraven i have seven followers i wish i was kidding like this video 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Channel: Prism Raven

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Length: 12min 34sec (754 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2021