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Skin is very reflective so I use lots of color.
I just splash it on in the beginning...
Eyes are also very reflective.
Even the "whites"...
are full of color.
The lids give shadow to the eyes...
so I use colored grays for these shadows.
I use mauve colors for lips.
Like skin and eyes, teeth are also very reflective.
The lip color is used around the entire mouth area.
My helmet has lots of green in the gold color...
so I need to reflect this in the skin too.
I filled my helmet with gold using the Paint Bucket tool.
I switched to a rough brush to paint the highlights and shadows of the helmet.
This part of the painting took 90 minutes.
Highlights are just tints of the background colors.
Hair takes the longest time for me to paint...
strand by strand...
using many different colors to give it depth and movement.
I used Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuit 3 pen tablet to paint this.
I hope this has been helpful to you. Thanks for watching :)