digital painting realistic skin for beginners, tutorial video

I decided it was about time I get another video made as it has been a little while. People have been requesting more tutorials and my subscribers are very gradually increasing which always makes me feel good to know people can learn even from me :)

So anyway.. I decided digitally painting realistic skin could be a really good video to make. I am by no means a master of it myself but I like to think I have at least learnt enough to teach a beginner or provide them with some tips. When I first started digitally painting I was struggling with this the most so I thought my video may be able to help someone out in the same situation I was in.

In the video I show you how to make the skin more realistic by adding colour to shade the skin and using imperfections to really bring the realistic skin to life. When I first started digitally painting I used to just shade everything with black, which I show in the video, looks absolutely terrible, so if nothing else, that is a great point to take away from this. I have tried to keep this video tutorial down so it's not too long but hopefully you learn something from it.

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Realistic pikachu

Hello everyone.
I haven't been updating my blog recently because I have not had that much new stuff to upload due to uni work :( That being said I do have some things and I am going to work harder to get them done now and keep posting more on my blog.

You may have already seen my realistic bulbasaur image and video that I painting, someone commented on the video requesting I did pikachu, it started off mopre as a doodle then anything but it turned out okay :) So here is the Youtube video of me painting a realistic pikachu and the finished image below. let me know what you think :).
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More portrait digital sketches using the andrew loomis method, improving slowly

Hello all, I have quite a lot of work to upload and update my blog with, however it's midnight now and I am shattered, so for now I will leave you with some digital sketching I did of 3 female faces. I used the Andrew Loomis method for the structure of the heads, things such as an equal distance from the chin to the nose, the nose to the eyebrow line and the eyebrow line to the hair line as an example. Then I had reference loaded up which I used for the features, The faces did not turn out exactly like the reference but I am still pretty happy with it over all.

The first face of the 3 did not turn out as good as the others. From memory I spent about 1 hour on the first face, an hour and a half one the second and just over 2 hours on the third one. I also recorded the full process for you guys to watch with me babbling on in the background :)
See the image and video below.

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Darth maul time lapse painting

So i decided to paint Darth Maul from Star Wars episode 1, it could have turned out better... but it could have gone worse so I wont complain.. I didn't have the highest resolution image which made things difficult, but here it is below anyway, done in photoshop with photo reference ( a print screen from the film )
Also the Youtube video of me painting it is below too :)

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How to design and draw a dragon head from the side profile!

Hey guys, sorry it's been a really long time since I updated my blog, I have been working hard with more videos and studies which I will post up soon. For now though I wanted to pose my latest video, uploaded just now!

How to draw an awesome dragon head from the side view using animal reference. The video is of me drawing some animals used for reference and then putting those studies together to come up with a cool dragon design. Below is a link to the video and below that is the image showing the animals and dragon.
I am really excited about this one so I hope you guys like it! :)

Realistic Pokemon Bulbasaur video and image

I have just finished uploading my latest YouTube video ' drawing a realistic bulbasaur Pokemon'. This is my first creature type painting but here is the video and the image, be sure to subscribe if you like it guys :)

The hobbit - Gollum study

Just finished painting a still from the Hobbit movie, as you can tell (hopefully!) it's of Gollum. The background was not working at all and I was very close to giving up but then I painted Gollum and he actually came out really well for me. I think this is one of the best things I have done so far :P. Because I am pleased with it I decided to post it here. first one is with the background, the second just Gollum.

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