Portrait Study: Eunice

Hey Y'all! 🎀

Hello Sketchbook community, has your week started off well? Today I've got a study for you, it's a portrait called Eunice.

I say 'study' because I used the reference basically "as-is", without making significant changes to make it into my ✨️very own💫.

Eunice was a chance to use different brushes together to test how they look, which was a fun aspect. I especially liked the colored pencil brush for shading, mmm so smooth. Now, getting the appropriate texture for rendering her mature skin was a challenge, I won't lie. (But that's kinda why I chose this reference! Plus her great 😄).

Eunice
Emanate Artworx/SCAB
2304x3072
IbisPaint

After Amelia and her #rbf, Eunice was a nice - albeit difficult - change of pace. I wanted to test getting the look of skin wrinkles right too, and Eunice was a great subject for that. She also has an uplifting energy that goes well with the pretty flowers. Beauty at any age 🧡

Also, while I am continuing my search for the hardware and software that's right for my needs, I decided to purchase IbisPaint prime membership to unlock all the features and rid myself of the ads.

I like what people say about Corel Painter 2022, but then again, Krita is free and feature-rich, too. I'm one of those people who isn't very compatible with Apple, so for now Procreate is out.

What are your thoughts? 🤔💭 Leave your suggestions in the comments so we can hear your opinion on the most useful painting apps!

Final layer

Backdrop

Highlight layer: Blending Mode add, Brush airbrush, Color almost white, Opacity very low

Shadow layer: Blending Mode multiply, Brush airbrush, Color almost black, Opacity very low

Base Colors layer: an idea of which colors are where, set clipping to layer beneath this, Eunice base layer

Eunice Base layer: layer on which the colors and form of finished Eunice will be

Line Drawing layer: cleaner version of sketch layer, use as a guide to show which features are where

Sketch layer: messy sketch, basic idea for composition

Thanks for reading! Until next time,
-S

Edited to show cropped image of finished work as first image