Sebi & Sofia

My best friend’s kids at the beach.  Loose sketch using a medium quality photo reference picture.

Process:

1.  Gridded the reference image

2.  layed down mid tine using big soft photoshop default brush with opacity set to 100%

3.  dropped in blurry profile of the faces.  big soft brush @ 60% opacity.

4.  detailed out dark values using smaller soft brush @ 40% – 80% opacity.

5.  blocked in hair with smaller soft brush @ 40% – 80% opacity.

6.  added highlights to faces & hair with soft brush @ 40% – 60% opacity.

7.  detailed out dark values in the hair using smaller soft brush @ 40% – 80% opacity.

8.  applied photoshop texture “texturizer” filter.

9.  applied photoshop sketch “water paper” filter.