Tags:Guest says:
great tutorial i like it
(3 years and 17 days ago)
Photoshop Tutorial: How to Paint a Realistic Proportioned Female Face from Scratch
In this tutorial I will show you how to paint a proportioned female face from scratch... There are plenty of advanced ways to achieve this, but this tutorial will start with the absolute basics and move on to more advanced techniques, so even beginners can follow.
First I'm going to show you how to achieve the right proportions... After that we bring the face to life by painting and smudging it into a beautiful woman.
If you try this tutorial, don't forget to show your result by submitting it in the practice contest.
Let's get started!
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First I'm going to show you how to achieve the right proportions... After that we bring the face to life by painting and smudging it into a beautiful woman.
If you try this tutorial, don't forget to show your result by submitting it in the practice contest.
Let's get started!
End result:
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Step 1
Open a new document 1500x1500. The first thing we have to take into account is the facial proportion. I am going to draw the rough sketch by using grids. Go to view > show >grid (check the grid). To change the default settings
go to Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grid and Slices
Step 2
They say width of an ideal face spans 4.5 to 5 eyes and height of 7 eyes. Consider each grid as the measure of an eye. Now we will construct the face. Below figure shows you how they are in proportion.
Step 3
Create a new layer call it "Sketch”. With pen tool draw the shape of face assuming it’s going to look like an egg. Once the sketching is done we don’t need the grids so go to View > Show > Grid (uncheck)
Step 4
Create a new layer in between background and sketch layer call it "Base"
With a large brush fill in the color.
Step 5
Now that we have the skin color let's add some shadows and highlights. Create a new layer call it "shadows". If you don’t know which colors to pick then don’t worry you can see it in the below picture. With a soft air brush of size 50-75 I made some strokes.
Step 6
I hid the "shadows” layer intentionally just so you can see what I’ve been doing. Create a new layer and call it "Blush”. I use this layer to show the blush on cheeks, nose and forehead.
Step 7
Create a new layer and call it "highlights”. Keep it in mind that any new layers you create should be below the "Sketch" layer.
Step 8
Merge base, shadows, blush and highlights layers. The image should look somewhat like this.
Step 9
I read that a lot of people use the smudge tool to give the face a smooth look or to blend the colors. That tedious procedure didn’t work for me so I figured out another method. Select the whole face (you can do that by clicking on the base layer by holding ctrl). Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and blur it by 31px radius. Tadaa!!!!!
Step 10
Clean the edges off.
Step 11
Create as many layers as you want and don’t forget to name them. You can delete them if you are not happy with what you have done. Create a new layer call it “nose”. Added shadows
Step 12
To give it a smooth look blur it by 10px radius.
Step 13
Give some details to the nose.
Step 14
Create a new layer call it "Lips” The upper lip is darker than the lower lip. Remember one thing. Whether it’s a face, nose or lips don’t just use burn and dodge tool. First add darker/lighter shades to create depth.
Step 15
Darken the line that’s in between the lips and add more details with burn and dodge tool.
Step 16
Create a new layer call it "eyes”. The eyeball that you see is not pure white at all. So use some lighter shade of Grey to paint the shape. Now the series of screenshots below should be pretty self-explanatory.
Step 17
Focus on Iris now. I am just painting simple iris with less details.
Step 18
Painting pupil is the easiest thing and fun to do too ;-)
Step 19
Usually hair of brows is messy. So go easy on `eye brow shaping` for that natural look. See to it that the color of brows and color of hair is close.
Step 20
No need to scratch your heads when adding an eye shadow. Just pick the darker and lighter shades from face.
Step 21
Some times after smudging, the edges appear as if they are not blended with the surroundings. Use blur tool to get rid of the edges and blend the colors nicely.
Step 22
Painting is almost done now the time to use burn tool ;-)
Step 23
Don’t burn your painting if it turns like below. Instead pick a darker shade of the color from the area you want to burn and manually add that color.
Step 24
Defining more with dodge tool.
Step 25
Fix the gaps or sharp edges if you have any.
Step 26
Thought of doing hair also but I didn`t want to drag the tutorial. May be in another tutorial.
Final result.
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51 Comments:
Guest says:
awesome!!!
(3 years and 17 days ago)
04mehul says:
very good explain.
(3 years and 16 days ago)Guest says:
there some mistake.
u diidn't tell about hair
Guest says:
very good explain. but u not tell about hair
(3 years and 13 days ago)Guest says:
excellent, but what about the hair does not say how, has a second part?
(3 years and 12 days ago)
hereisanoop says:
nice tut
(3 years and 11 days ago)Guest says:
beautiful.......
(3 years and 11 days ago)Guest says:
niceeeeee pls more tutorials pls mail me
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erikuri says:
Very beautiful and well explained! Ushurani, you have magic hands!... 
ushurani says:
Thanks a lot all. I will definitely write another tutorial on how to paint hair.
(3 years and 7 days ago)Guest says:
wonderfull explanation
(2 years and 364 days ago)Guest says:
It is wonderfull i don't know how i say,,Beautifull thanks..
(2 years and 362 days ago)Guest says:
magic i loved it helps that this kinda sites is out there
(2 years and 358 days ago)ramsonikailashi says:
very good
(2 years and 353 days ago)Guest says:
very magical job.
ram babu sharma
ponti55 says:
Very well explained. Great job.
(2 years and 350 days ago)Guest says:
amazing work.its really well.
(2 years and 345 days ago)Guest says:
it was very good to see it . a very good explain........
(2 years and 345 days ago)Guest says:
It was very helpful!
You could have spent more time on the irises though, as that's the only part that doesn't look realistic at all
Guest says:
is this done with a mouse or a graphics tablet?
(2 years and 339 days ago)Guest says:
pagerank sorgulama
(2 years and 329 days ago)Guest says:
thanks
(2 years and 327 days ago)Guest says:
i like it very good
(2 years and 322 days ago)Guest says:
She looks a lot like Caley Cuoco 
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Guest says:
Excellent work man...
(2 years and 303 days ago)Guest says:
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thanks
Guest says:
very good
(2 years and 299 days ago)kapilkumar1983 says:
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Guest says:
super
(2 years and 287 days ago)
neeraj55 says:
well done!
(2 years and 287 days ago)Guest says:
I found my greatest mistake in painting ! that tutorial revealed it to me thanks :P
Guest says:
nice teaching
(2 years and 281 days ago)Guest says:
too good but i wanna know about hairs
(2 years and 278 days ago)Guest says:
awesome!
(2 years and 275 days ago)Guest says:
thanks.. you are really helping me...
(2 years and 274 days ago)
telmafrancione says:
A very well done work!
Thanks for sharing
bijucomax says:
very good explain,.good one,.thaks
(2 years and 255 days ago)sir righteous says:
very cool tutorials, very much impressed
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Poonam says:
I have read many other digital painting tutorials, but this one is very well written. Thanks
(2 years and 239 days ago)Guest says:
Toll gemacht - good work
steed says:
wow, Great work
(2 years and 220 days ago)jun says:
Wow! Amazing....... that's great..!!!!
(2 years and 195 days ago)feed says:
Great work
(2 years and 182 days ago)Guest says:
eagerly waiting for the hair tutorial 
strikingbullet says:
HATS OFF
(2 years and 26 days ago)Guest says:
Blending is always better than blurring and smudging. You really could have saved time when adding more enhancement if you would have just blended as you worked.
(1 year and 146 days ago)Happytuts says:
Fentastic Results
(1 year and 111 days ago)Blanco111 says:
I am using PS Elements, but I could follow most of this tutorial. I used gaussian blur a lot. I like my results well enough, although my female face looks a lot different. See it here. http://fav.me/d4sba76
(1 year and 77 days ago)
Well written -- great results
(3 years and 19 days ago)