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"The art is an Explotion"
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Techniques for painting the skin
Open a New Layer on "Multiply"
With Magic Wand select the skin
If you need to fill any part, use the "selection" tool.
Now, use the pen to color.
You can also use the bucket to color.
The setup is this.
I do prefer this technique
The tonality can be decreased.
Open a New Layer to make the Shadows.
The color has not be too dark
The light will determine where the shadows must be
This is the slow way. Using the pen.
The fast way is using the bucket.
To color with the bucket, you need to disable the view the skin layer.
Another technique
After you paint the skin, open a new layer.
Take the pen and color the zone that the light can't reach.
Blur the shadows.
The tonality can be decreased, too.
This is gonna make the shadows more realistics.
If you are using the mouse, you can make the shadows with the "curve" tool.
Open a new layer on "Luminosity" and repeat the same process for the lights
Blur the shadows and lights
The finished drawing.