This work in progress started on January 12th. (You can navigate to a different date through the calendar that appears on the right.) This work-in-progress was painted with Painter IX.

Tools Used:

2B Pencil (Pencil Category)

Tapered Conte 8 (Conte Category)

Sandy Pastel Paper

I am following up on Solitude I work-in-progress posted yesterday.

On the following step, you will notice that I have increased the intensity of reds, especially on her skin because my goal is a warm painting. I softened some areas by applying color with very, very little pressure on my stylus/pen to avoid having hard edges where they are not supposed to be.

Here, I defined her eyes a little better and also added more color to the hair for better definition. I also added more tones of green to the skin. I haven’t done anything on her ear yet LOL, but I know that soon I will have to. That little icon you see close to her nose is my brush. I forgot to move it away before capturing the screen. LOL.

Here I added yellow-orange very lightly, so that it would be like a glazing in other painting mediums, to the entire skin to unify it.

I covered the purples on her forehead with different tones of orange and reshaped her nose that was a little off. I also reshaped her mouth and added some dark values between the lips. I also reshaped the corner of her mouth. To do this type of detail, I always Zoom In by pressing Ctrl and the plus sign (+) on the keyboard. To Zoom Out, just press Ctrl and the minus key (-) on the keyboard. I also have set up one of the touch strips on the side of my Wacom to zoom in and out. I also corrected the shape of her nose.

Until now (besides the 2B Pencil I used for the sketch in the beginning), I have only used the same Conte brush for everything you have seen so far. You can accomplish a lot with only one brush at different sizes and opacity. The entire process has taken 1:30 hour until now. This includes yesterday.

This is it for today! I hope you enjoyed it. If you missed the start of this painting, just select January 12 on the calendar on the top right of your screen. It will redirect you to Part I of Solitude I.

I hope you’ve found this work in progress interesting. I will probably add more steps tomorrow. Thanks again for visiting.