Digital OC Portraits

[snowstormspawn]

  


Here's some paintings  I did of my OCs this Christmas break. 
From left to right- Andreas and Jadie, Tre (three versions, each about a year apart), Hannah, Ethan, Evelyn and Saniel. 

 

[snowstormspawn]

There's more. I've been working on creating better backgrounds as well.
 

 

 

[Bunn]

Hey! I just wanted to give you a few tips I got some time ago myself :3c 

Your art is amazing! Though the one tip I could have for you is regarding your shading
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techniques! The shading itself is amazing, but the colors vary greatly. 

When you shade, you want to change The saturation, not the value of it UNLESS
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you are working in grey scale! 

The intensity of the color when raised from 85 to 100
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Leads to this variation of color

When you raise the value from 220 to 200, you get 

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The color difference can mean two things, the darker color can be for elderly people to show how
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people age and the melanin in the skin begins to age and decrease in value tone or the lighter,
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more saturated person can mean a number of things such as more liveliness and more jubilant,
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or simply younger and more youthful! Here is an example of what I mean in couple of my portraits.

In one and another I tried to use more valued tone {In Williard} And the other I used
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more saturated tones so Xander can be a bit more youthful looking. 

Neither are done, granted, but I hope this helps! If it's simply stylized choice, then keep at it! 

~Kasuu
 
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@snowstormspawn
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[KiKi Kitsune]

When you shade, you want to change The saturation, not the value of it UNLESS
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you are working in grey scale! 
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I have actually found shading works best when you change value, saturation and even the colour. Depending on your light source, your shadows may be warmer of cooler, but generally speaking, blues and colder colours are used for shadows since it's the last colour our eyes pick up in low light. If you only change the saturation, it sometimes looks brighter than the base colour, confusing the eye. Keeping the contrast fairly noticeably between shadow and base helps differentiate what the light is actually hitting. 


That's just my experience though. Whatever works for you!

 

[Bunn]

I have actually found shading works best when you change value, saturation and even the colour. Depending on your light source, your shadows may be warmer of cooler, but generally speaking, blues and colder colours are used for shadows since it's the last colour our eyes pick up in low light. If you only change the saturation, it sometimes looks brighter than the base colour, confusing the eye. Keeping the contrast fairly noticeably between shadow and base helps differentiate what the light is actually hitting. 


That's just my experience though. Whatever works for you!

That is true too! But you also want to keep in mind the colors as well. perfrct to perfect various shades can be a literal pain in the ass, like yellows. You don't want it to be muddy but you don't want it to be bright either. 


*internal screaming*


But it is true, the saturation can change depending on the shadow and where that hits as well, which is a crucial thing as well :3 

 

[snowstormspawn]

@Kasuu @KiKi Kitsune 
Thank you so much for that advice. Very helpful. I try a lot to keep the tones from turning to orange or something like that. x3 
I'm not used to painting people actually. It's relatively new to me. So I'm used to changing values as opposed to saturation. I'll keep that in mind for the future.