Re: Portrait
Soul, this is a great start!
You have the proportions down, so now it's just a bit of work on the shading, and you will have this nailed!
While the glasses may have been real dark, you need to kind of put the range of darkness in proportion to the image as a whole.
That may not make much sense, but if you take solid black as being only the deepest shadow or darkest region, and white as being the absolute brightest spot or area, then you have to kind of map out your image in range of shades or colors.
keep im nind that we see lighter areas, surfaces, or objects as being closer to us, the viewer, and darker areas, surfaces, or objects as being further away.
This is a general rule of thumb, not an absolute.
Also, the closer an object, surface, or area is to the viewer, the more detailed it will be, the further away, the softer or less detailed it will be.
Now, mix those two rules with the angle of your light source and shadows, and you can pretty much tackle anything.
When you go to tackle something like this, try sketching it in first, using super light strokes, build up those areas that need to be darker, but build up your image as a whole. Keep in mind that once you paint something black, you can't add shadows to it, or make any areas darker. So while the sunglasses may trully be black, spraying them so they are a dark gray, or shades of gray lets you depict shadows and varying levels or surfaces, it can also let you show the hint of eyes behind them if you wish.
For smoother looking lenses, spray with the airbrush held further away from the paper, do lots of larger, softer passes to build up the intensity, but don't go overboard. It's always easier to add paint then it is to take it away.
You are doing great so far, so keep the practice up, and remember to kind of walk through it mentally before you actually lay the paint down.
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