Hello
there. I have a little spare time so I thought I
would do a quick Walk Through on painting a colour
map. I will be painting a female's skin. unlike
my last painting tut which was the skin of a old
man.
I
find painting a young female skin probably the hardest,
Because you have to be quite delicate with the skin
tones, and things like the marks and blemishes trying
to make a healthy looking attractive skin.
I've
found an old head model which you are free to download
a part of to practise on. You can download it here.
it's in OBJ format.
First I've taken a UV snapshot. Then opened it
up in photoshop I've screened it over a 50% gray
layer.
What you can also do is just bake some lighting
on to a map, the lighting can be quite simple this
just gives you an impression of the face which can
help you in the painting, its over laid over the
gray layer, and turn down the opacity so your can
just faintly see it.
Right now you want some reference's this are just
a few of the photos I'm using
I've created a new blank layer, and using the colour
sampler tool, I've picked a medium skin tone from
the photo
I filled the layer with that colour
Then I have added another layer and picked a lighter
skin tone from her face and filled the layer with
that colour. What we want to do is build up lots
of varying skin tones.
Next I have dissolved the top layer to 60% then
created a another blank layer and merged layer 3
and 4 together. I can now create some gaussian blur
on this layer, from the menu go to filter/blur/gaussian
blur and add some blur about a radius of one. Now
you can merge this layer down to the first skin
tone layer, you might want to turn the opacity down
a bit so is blends nicely.
I've created another layer filled it with this
skin tone.
I have dissolved this layer to 70% then merged
it down the a blank layer
then added some gaussian blur to the layer about
2.0 radius this time
