Don't peak! (Artwork ) An expression study by me.

Hello guys 🙋

How's the weekend going? Hope you all are having a wonderful time with your loved ones. How's my weekend going? Thanks for asking, As you can see I'm making a blog on hive. This is how my weekends usually end up haha. The question is "Am I having fun?" Yes hehe and I hope everyone is having a great time here as well. Yesterday I was digging through some of my old sketches and found this one. Felt bad because when I started to sketch it I had every intention to post it here and share with you guys. I suppose this one got buried under the mountain of other works I did recently. Well you have to finish what you started, right? So I decided to have fun with it, you know like a light practice doing expressions. That's all. I decided to name this one as Don't Peak because she is bathing and you are now staring at her hence her cold look xd. She looks angry, right😬?

The Process...

As you can see, this is an expression study. The artwork is pretty basic. I concentrated mostly on the face here. Well, maybe I put some effort into painting her hair as well. Never painted a green haired girl before so I really wanted to see how it turns out.

I can give a tip to beginners here. The best way to control your paintings expression/ emotion is to paint eyebrows, eyes and mouth on seperate layer. Can't you do this in a single layer? Afcourse you can but the only problem is it won't be much flexible as painting them on seperate layers. I sincerely hope your drawing software supports liquify tool, without it we might have to depend on perspective and mesh form. It's doable but it's a hassle. Regardless, you can still master it over time if you don't have liquify available. So for this painting I did the same steps I mentioned here and moved the eye brows up, down sideways etc. It's fun to see how the painting becomes more alive once the emotions kick in. I started with a happy expression but later changed to a cold stare. Why? Because I haven't done this before. Same thing I did with the lips as well. Pulled it slightly inwards to vanish any smile left to amplify the cold stare. This is something that every artist should try once in a while. It's a fun experiment and who knows, maybe it will improve the painting was well.

As for the painting part. I found a reference image of a girl in a pond from Pinterest. Then I made a sketch on my book and again on Ibis app. I decided to paint her skin in orange. I decided to paint the eyes blue because of the complementing factor there. I experimented with the eyes a bit by adding some strokes of red and yellow in there. That seems to be working I think. I painted her hair brown at first but later changed to green because I really wanted to see green hair haha. I didn't rely on the reference image while painting the water here. Why? Overconfidence? No. Laziness? 100%. Why do I do this to myself xd? This was done because I had plans to add focus blur towards the face at the end so anything surrounding her didn't matter because the study was about expression afterall. Although I did paint some branches on here and there and applied moving blur in it as well. I didn't want to make the surrounding look that much empty so it has to be done. After that the painting was done and reddit for peaking in peakd 😆. But seriously though, don't do that in real life xd.

Tools used: Ibis paint, notebook and pencil

Duration: 4hrs

Thank you so much for your time 😊. I'll be back tommorrow hehe