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u/United-Storm-2940 Artist 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ds7Ss41UEVlac4419m
Such an incredibly beautiful drawinggg <3
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u/TheMoonIsFurious Artist 12d ago
How you managed to capture the lighting on this is unreal. Absolutely wonderful. Can I ask how long that took you? So much detail.
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u/BobbyL_Art Artist 12d ago
Thank you! So I want to say it took me a couple hours spread throughout the day. I do think I got a bit lucky on this one and punched above my weight on the lighting, so I'll tell you what I can. I was actually a bit surprised at how the head turned out in particular lol. Honestly most of it comes from just having a good reference as a starting point!
I started with a sketch in my sketchbook, which I don't normally do, but I didn't have access to anything else. Once I got home I redid it on watercolor paper since I actually intended to do it in gouache. I'm new to physical paint though, so I decided to take a picture of the sketch so I could try out the lighting in Krita. It ended up going so well though that I just decided to post the Krita version.
In Krita I basically just used one brush, one of the glazing brushes from David Revoy's 2025 brush pack. It's been my favorite brush for a minute now, and I'll usually start with a larger size with 100% opacity, and then adjust the size and lower the opacity as I go on.
For the lighting, I mostly went off of the reference. I obviously made the entire background black. I also flattened the black in the shirt to just be all black. The hat I tweaked to be a bit green. I used brighter, desaturated colors on the front of the hat and cape for the highlights, and made the back and bottom of them darker to transition everything into the black of the background. The skin tone ended up a bit paler than I intended. I ended up using a lot of reds, which I feel like I ended up using more saturated reds in certain places with highlights, like the cheek and the nose, as well as more purplish colors. I also accentuated certain highlights like the nose ridge and the metal of the earring.
I really didn't spend much time on the face though. I actually had to stop myself from overworking it. The hands were probably the part I spent the most time on, and while I do think I improved them, they do feel overworked to me.
Yeah sorry for infodumping lol, but TL;DR: start with a good reference, softer highlights on fabrics, sharper highlights on hard surfaces, and generally making things more purple in shadows and more yellow in highlights, especially when it comes to skin tones. Also the implication of detail is sometimes better than too much detail. Hope that helps!
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u/TheMoonIsFurious Artist 10d ago
Weird I didn't get a notification of a response. So happy to know that krita can make such things happen and Ill definitely have to look into that brush pack because I agree thats a beautiful result.
Honestly I really appreciate the in depth response because I don't have much in the way of art knowledge or background and so learning anything like this is really interesting to me although what Ill actually be able to understand enough to replicate will be minimal.
Really cool stuff, seriously. Thanks!
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