Note on RED:
While it's beyond the scope of this tutorial to teach eveything about painting skin tones, a note of explanation about the color red is called for. We see reds in the skin because of our blood. But we don't always see it exactly where the arteries are, but frequently as a division between the lights and the darks. Some painters call it "Optical Red."
STEP 7 - Painting the Deepest Shadows
Airbrush Size: 10 - 20 Transparency: 50 Soft Edge: 50
Hex #200B06 [MODE]
Darkest darks - With a very fine spray, darken the nostrils. Then paint a small outline arc at the outer edge of the left nostril WING, and a small arc at the left nose edge near the eye, only. Do not overdo this!
GALLERY OF NOSES
Young ones, old ones, rounded one, angular ones, sketchy ones, finished ones.
This tutorial's objective was to get you acquainted with noses, and how to paint one. If you want to improve your drawing and painting of the human face, take a little sketch-book with you every-where, look at your sub-jects closely, and sketch, sketch, sketch!
And when you paint faces in the future, don't con-centrate on one feature at a time. Fill the entire can-vas immediately, and develop all the details and features at the same time.
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2007 Gisele Zeitler
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STEP 6 - Painting the Red Tones
Airbrush Size: 25 Transparency: 80 Soft Edge: 50
Hex #E84326 [MODE]
Paint a light, or faint, dividing area between the light and dark tones of the nose. Also swirl it a bit under the tip of the nose, as well as faintly on the lower wings of the nostrils.
STEP 5 - Painting the Highlights
Airbrush Size: 10 - 20 Transparency: 30 Soft Edge: 50
Hex #FCFEE2 [MODE]
Highlights - Paint a slightly skewed, horizontal oval highlight at the upper right part of the tip of the nose with soft edges. Also paint in a hightlight above the bridge of the nose.
Final Note:
As you can see, the original drawing we did is still visible. I'm doing things this way because we will be inserting these features into a face, and we have to retain really soft edges so that we won't overwork them when we're painting in the skin tones of the face. Besides, if you painted in MODE, you can eliminate the under-drawing if you wish.
So for now, you're finished! I hope you enjoyed painting a nose with me!