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*Sheridan-J Jan 8, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
@00:40Mostly the hard round airbrush with the opacity around 30-50%. I hardly touch the Flow option, I just rely on the pen pressure of my tablet :D
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~iceheartt Jun 4, 2011
@03:35I love this! He has a great face for drawing. I admit I'd love to see you draw Willem Dafoe some time if you haven't.
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!Sky-Hart Sep 19, 2010  Student General Artist
@03:32awsome! pure genius
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~KerovinBlack Jul 9, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
@01:38AWesome
what program do you use to make the video?
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*Sheridan-J Jul 8, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
@02:15After all the basic tones are down, I bring out the Skin Texture Brushes for Photoshop CS, and begin blending and detailing!
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*Sheridan-J Jul 8, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
@00:51I find working on a dark/shaded background is a lot better than a plain white one. It makes the colors you are working with pop out more!
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*Sheridan-J Jul 8, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
@00:01I start by blocking in the flat colors and tones. Nothing neat and fancy here. Just trying to isolate some areas to work on later!
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Here is my time-lapsed video of the process I go through when painting a portrait in Photoshop CS3 with my WACOM tablet, using mainly the airbrush and some customized texture brushes.

Also a nice demonstration of David Nagel's Photoshop Skin texture brushes which I cherish so dearly! They're fantastic for blending tones together while keeping the texture of the skin intact and looking real.

Real time- around 4-5 hours.
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*Sandiest-Cupid May 17, 2013  Student Digital Artist
hey sherdian! your work is so amazing and such an inspiration too! nice to see another aussie on here! i was wondering...how do you blend the colours in photoshop? im studying animation at RMIT and i need to rely on photoshop more than SAI.
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~Lucy-Damien998 Oct 26, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
cool i need to paint like this
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~jaredwarrior Oct 7, 2012
This is so amazing, omg!
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*Sheridan-J Oct 21, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Thanks :)
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~Skat0rzZzz Jan 8, 2012
@00:40what kind of brush setting have you used, opacity, flow etc..
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*Sheridan-J Jan 8, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
@00:40Mostly the hard round airbrush with the opacity around 30-50%. I hardly touch the Flow option, I just rely on the pen pressure of my tablet :D
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~iceheartt Jun 4, 2011
@03:35I love this! He has a great face for drawing. I admit I'd love to see you draw Willem Dafoe some time if you haven't.
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!JenniferHunter Jan 28, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Sorry to bother you again. I feel like i'm harassing you :XD:

How many layers do you usually use for the skin? and how do you create your palette?
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*Sheridan-J Jan 28, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
No it's cool :D

My layers usually go something like this (from top layer to bottom):
-Lines
-Detail/hair/eyes/highlights etc
-Texture
-Base color/tones

Not many layers in all because it's just about building up the tones evenly over the whole picture. I used to have heaps of layers for different shades of tone, but that seemed like a waste time because I found it easier to just paint over any areas I stuffed up.
But if I'm doing something kinda drastic (such as adding a big highlight down the side of the face) I would definitely make a new layer (for fear of really stuffing it up!) :D

If I have a good photo reference, I use the eye dropper tool. But I add in my own highlights/colors to give it a bit more...zazz :XD:
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!JenniferHunter Jan 29, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
aaah thank you :D

I know most books and things tell me i have to do separate layers, however i have a very old and very slow computer so it's difficult to manage lots of layers. It's good to know that an awesome and terrific painter like yourself doesn't bother with tons of layers. I'll give it a shot on my next painting :D I'm definitely going to dedicate it to you seeing as you've tolerated me for 24 hours asking question after question :XD:
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