Cartoon face coloring

Muddy Colors

Friday, May 10th, 2013

-By Serge Birault

Here’s a small video process. A lot of people asked me for videos, so let’s go … It’s just the way I work to paint a cartoon face. I only used the soft round brush, I changed the opacity of the brush very often. It’s an A3 canevas, in 300 dpi.

Sorry for the crappy quality of the video but I didn’t find the way to upload the videos in HD here, That’s why I put the links on facebook. Choose “HD” option on the player …

By the way, I uploaded all the videos on Vimeo here : https://vimeo.com/user18232359

Step 1 : Sketching

Quick sketch in two steps on two different layers.

Step 2 : Lights

I choosed the background color and the light first. The sketch is on a “multiply” layer. I only use the soft round brush here …

Step 3 : Cleaning
I use to do very precise picture because a lot of my works have to be printed in very big size.
Step 4 : Skin texture
I use the “dry brush” (a standard brush in PS) for the skin texture …

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    Paola A. on May 10, 2013 at 9:54 am

    It's amazing! thanks for these videos, you're really good!
    Great post! I like it!

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    Leo Pinheiro a.k.a. Morg on May 10, 2013 at 10:13 am

    Thanks a ton for these!!! I've always wanted to take a look on your workflow, this will help a lot.

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    Lore Pass on May 10, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    Me encanta la técnica y aun mas el resultado, parece tan fácil! Ahora a intentarlo!

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    Danielle Case on May 11, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    This is great! Please make more!

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    Groupdmt on May 29, 2013 at 10:04 am

    Really i appreciate the effort you made to share the knowledge.The topic here i found was really effective to the topic which i was researching for a long time
    Cartoon coloring