PAINTING OF A CHOCOLATE EBONY

The moment I saw this picture on Rapidfotos page; a portrait photography page on Facebook that i follow, I couldn't resist using it for my quick painting study, thank God its came out well, and I couldn't wait to share.

This was my quickest painting ever, and I finished it in an hour time, I couldn't record this, though I wanted, reasons maybe because I was not still sure of what I was doing, or probably, I didn't expect it to come out well like this.

It was so much fun doing it, maybe because of the choco skintone i find myself painting, or probably how the colours, shading, highlights, shadows...all played out in my eyes.

But all the same, I hope you love this piece...

THIS IS A SCREENSHOT OF HOW MY COMPUTER SCREEN LOOKED. THE ORIGINAL IMAGE IS ON THE LEFT AND THE ARTWORK IS ON THE RIGHT.

Tools used: Adobe photoshop, Window computer, and a mouse

SKETCH

I started with a sketch, going through the outlines, it was a quick one, because at first I didn't think of going into too much details.

COLOURING

Then I used the pen tool to go through the outlines and filled it with a darker brown tone.

Then I started adding the shadows and the highlights by picking the colours from the original. I was just focusing on the values, and I kinda pretty love how it went.

Then I started detailing, this was like 30mins from when I started.

Then i did the final rendering on the back, face, ear and the hair.

I painted the backdrop, which blended very well. I have been studying light for some time now, maybe that gave a sense of direction on how to make the background blend with the foreground.

The artwork was still looking incomplete to me. So i decided to add a SEPTUM; nose ring on her nose, though i didn't get the perspective very well, and painted some strokes of orange colour on the skin