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Hi Steemians!
Welcome to my blog. Today I share a color drawing of a beautiful young woman's portrait and what inspired me to do this work is her hair, as it is very abundant and defined.
At first I saw it very difficult, I really did not want to draw it, but I decided to do it and it became a challenge, especially because during the process, I felt the urge to leave it, but something in me told me, that I would not give up, and now that I see it finished makes me feel very satisfied with the results. For this drawing I took 12 hours to do it
"The difficulties of life, can help improve our skills at work."
❢Materials I used:❢
Faber Castell Color Pencils, Paper-Mate and Prismacolor.
Cold paint: brown, white and yellow.
Brush N° 0.
Graphite pencil HB.
Sheet of white thread, dimensions 12,9X20,7 cm.
Draft.
✽Here I show the step by step of the drawing:✽
Step 1: Realization of the sketch. In this step I used the graphite pencil HB, so that the lines are very thin so that when you add the color does not stain,
Step 2: With pencils of pink and brown colors, I began to paint the skin, for the iris of the eye I added brown and black.
Step 3: I painted the nose and mouth, for the lips I used dark pink, a little brown for the shadows and black to define the line that separates the lips
Step 4: I finished painting the face.
Step 5: I painted the girl's arms with light pink and brown tones. In this step I added some lights to the face (around the eyes and on the lips) with cold white paint.
Step 6: In this step I made the freckles of the face and began to paint the hair. It was very complicated to paint the hair of the young woman, because I had to make strands of light hair over the dark places and since my colors do not have that capacity, I resorted to cold painting. First I painted the dark parts of the hair, detailing the places that go blond, then I mixed brown and yellow paint, and I was adding some parts on top of the black color. In this way I was able to make the loose hair lines.
Step 7: I finished painting the portrait with the other part of the hair, doing the same as in the previous step, painting the dark parts, detailing the light parts and painting with the cold paint.
Here I show the process in a GIF animation
I am learning new techniques, it is the first time I use cold paint in drawings with colored pencils, and it looks great in this work.
Note: cold paint, is a water-based paint with organic pigments and resins, especially for painting on ceramic, wood, cloth and general crafts. For the application of the product, you can use soft hair or hard bristle brushes, sponges, spatulas, among others.
I hope you liked this new drawing, I did it with a lot of effort to improve my skills. Thank you for reading, you can support my work with upvote, follow or refeem, I will be totally grateful. You can also leave your comments, I would love to know what you think of my work.
Blessings steemit.
Until next time!
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What a beautiful portrait! Great work, Francis!
Thank you very much, I did it with a lot of effort, I'm glad you liked it, thanks for commenting.
Greetings and blessings
This is amazing! I love how real she looks!
Good work and thanks for sharing it!
Thank you very much, it is a pleasure to share my work to this wonderful community.
Greetings and blessings
Hi francisftlp,
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thank you so much for the support @curie, it really makes me very happy.
Absolutely beautiful! I love her freckles😍
How well you liked!, freckles are a very nice detail on the face.
thank you @esli.kloppers.
I like you well proportioned and tone here face looks. I like what you did with her eyes the most. It's like they're staring straight into your soul. Good job on rendering the values and colors right, this is an awesome piece :D
Oh how exciting to read your comment !, I think the same, really his eyes transmit a very intense look.
thank you very much @adamada. :-)
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Thank you very much for your constant support. I really appreciate it.
Hermoso trabajo @francisftlp!!! 💙🎨✏️
el ftlp de tu username son siglas para Faster Than Light Painting? jejeje
Un gran saludo! 😉
Hey @melooo182, muchas gracias por tus comentarios, y el ftlp son las siglas de mi nombre y el de otra persona. jejeje me alegra que te guste mi trabajo.
Saludos y bendiciones.
Wow, this looks amazing! Keep it up 👌😁
Thanks for the motivation, I'm happy to read your comment.
greetings and blessings.
Your post was upvoted by the @art-venture account after manual review and included in Art-Venture magazine. The upvote and support of Art-venture magazine would greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for your support. I really appreciate it.
Greetings and blessings @art-venture.
This is so so beautiful, I love it! I love the curls in her hair and the look on her eyes, she looks so calm and peaceful.
This proved to be a challenge for you at first but you did an awesomely great job with it. It's incredible!
Was there someone you were trying to paint in particular or just a product of your imagination?
Really those curls were beautiful, and truly a challenge, but the drawing turned out very well.
And it is someone particular that I wanted to draw, especially to practice and improve my skills.
Thanks for comment, greetings
Just wow again! :)
That step when you added the hair made compleeete difference. So you basically painted all hair black, and then added the brown/yellow mix? I'm bit puzzled cuz you say you first paint only black parts...and then start with brown/yellow - to put it on the black already. Sooo the black parts in the beginning were actually all hair? Hope you get what I mean haha :D But those hair are absolutely stunning!
Hey @matkodurko, I'm glad you're here again.
and in that step, I paint with the black pencil, leaving blank the parts that are blond, and then with a very fine brush I paint in the places I left blank with the brown / yellow paint mixture, and in turn; I paint some strands of hair on the black color, this way the texture of real hair is left.
She is a beautiful woman, I like that you captured her expression well, and you definitely did a great job creating her hair nicely :D.
Congratulations for your curie vote, Francis ^_^.
Thank you very much, I am really happy for the support of Curie.
The hair was very difficult to paint, I had a lot of fun. Imagine stopping many times, to detail and think if it looks good or not. It's a funny torture, because I like what I do.
Aaaaah francis ! This is a very pretty portrait of a beautiful girl * ___ * I really like the pose and how you colour her ! Her freckles are so lovely, and her eyes and hair are magical <3 Very lovely art~
Congrats on Curie, also <3 <3 <3
His hair is really magic, because what I did, I had never done it before, and I did not know if it would be good, I just experimented in adding paint, and in the end it was beautiful.
Thank you very much, I'm really happy for Curie's support.
Wow tu dibujo es hermosoo, me alegra que no te rindieras y siguieras adelante, el cabello es espectacular, además el tono de piel que conseguiste con esa mescla de colores fue fantástica.. A mí me encanta dibujar cabellos pero nunca lo he hecho a color, tal vez algún día me atreva pero no soy de dibujar mucho con colores :)
Merecido voto curie, un gran abrazo paisana @francisftlp
Hey paisana un gusto conocerte, me alegra de que te guste esta obra de arte. Es emocionante dibujar cabello a color, a veces algo complicado pero no hay que rendirse
Saludos y Bendiciones .@naideth.
Hey... this is very cool color art :) .... I hope you make more ... and if you can try make one B&W also :)
Hi from Estonia :)
Hey @foxkoit, thank you very much, soon I will publish a black and white drawing, my specialty is in black and white drawings, but I have published in color because I am practicing with this technique.
Cool...Soon I am back and I come look.
Good Morning 😊
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It is always amazing to me how the heart of people conceive artistic masterpieces like this one. I wish I could do such paintings too. The picture is beautiful, the colour mix is great, nothing being out of proportion. It is a job well done. Thank you @francisftlp
It's a nice comment, thank you very much for those beautiful words @tolustx.
Hi @francisftlp, How nice to see portraits made only with colors, that realism.
I love the hair waves and the lighting you put on it looks too spongy and the detail of the freckles impressive. I really like it a lot.
from her features she looks like a latin woman, thick lips grrr
Thank you for sharing your creation.
greetings, peace and love
I am really glad to know that you like the drawing, you are very detailed, I like grrr, hahaha.
I hope you can see my next publication, thank you for commenting.
greetings and blessings.
You have a very good self disciplined to have continued and finished your art in spite of you thinking about it as hard to accomplish. Your drawing is amazing! She is alive on such drawing.
Who is that your model?
I thank you very much, I believe that if I rendered easily in the creation of art, I would not have the knowledge and the skill that I have.
Until now I do not have my own models to draw, so I look for images by Google
Yes, learning and self-development require courage and discipline to be achieved. Otherwise, you get nothing or go nowhere.
You mean you do not know who your model is if you just took her photo from Google? Wow! She must be very lucky to have been chosen. I wish she get a chance to know that she has a beautiful painting care of you.
WoW... te pasaste @francisftlp :-) Demasiado Hermoso... Me encanta!!!
Muchas gracias @sosadraws, me alegra que te haya gustado el dibujo.
Great drawing :)
I especially love how the texture of the paper shows through.
Will love to see what you will create for the future. :)
Thank you very much, the texture of the paper is because it is made of yarn fibers. I hope to see you soon.
I apologize for answering so late.
Oh girl, I totally understand that you found it challenging to draw her. She is a very pretty girl with special skin and beautiful hair.
I like your progress photos and the systematic way of working. You mastered her hair perfectly and those freckles are cute.
Her skin tones are spot on and her eyes and mouth are beautiful. She looks happy, content and relaxed. And those lashes and brows! I could count them - such a great detail!
Thank you for sharing!
I'm happy to have a comment from you, I'm so happy to have you here. It really was a challenge to draw it, and the important thing is that I enjoyed it a lot despite the complicated, the cold painting helped me a lot.
Thank you very much for this nice comment. I'm sorry to respond so late.
greetings and blessings
I love her hair too @francisftlp! You drew and painted her beautifully. And her eyes are very lively. And the way you coloured the hair is stunning. I like the highlights on her hair. And she has very nice thick hair! Thank you for showing us the process of your artwork. Amazing!
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your comment. Hair was the hardest part to paint, but I'm happy to achieve the effects that were wanted.
I regret to respond very late, I hope to see you soon.
So nice artwork friend!
Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked it.
Howdy from Texas francisftlp! This is a stunning portrait! I love the colors of the hair, the eyes are enchanting, it's a very beautiful drawing. I've never heard of cold paint before either so thank you for telling us about that.
This is a wonderful post and a well deserved curie vote!
Thank you very much, I am glad to know that I have reported well on this type of painting. in this case it was very useful, and gives some very beautiful details.
howdy again! oh it is very amazing, keep up the great work!
thank you very much, I hope to see you again
🎉 Congratulations @francisftlp! 👏, your amazing Artwork has been selected to be featured in my curation post.
Hey @melooo182, thank you very much, you have always supported my art, I am really grateful. I'm so sorry to respond so late.