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Published: 2013-10-13 00:12:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 44587; Favourites: 966; Downloads: 732
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This is a step by step tutorial on how I do my mouths on my paintings following my eye and nose tutorials. I have broken it down to as many steps as I can so you can see how and in what order I paint. The final step in the picture is what the painting would look like before I add any texturing to it to make it realistic.Thank you for taking the time to view this and I hope that this might help some of you a little, and thank you for all those who commented on my Eye, Nose, Hair and ear Tutorial (below with an example of how it would fit into a full portrait.
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I hope you all like it
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I use quite a few reference images for each individual painting. They are used for shapes, lighting shades and most importantly the colours. I did loads of life drawing when I was at art college and researched night and day on anatomy and muscles so drawing an accurate figure in any pose and correct shading is quite straight forward. I absolutely love drawing cartoons and graphic novels but on a serious level I do portraits painting for customers. But for DeviantArt, I wanted to concentrate on more realistic paintings and in order for myself to paint something that looks so realistic I have to use loads just to do a single painting. To do a single piece of fan art, I would use around 5 to 10 images of that person so I can get the proportion and shape right. I hope this helps
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...but for this mouth tutorial, I didn't use any references, I just did the basic shape of a mouth and nose and showed some teeth
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beautiful!!Β Β awesome 
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that is so kind, thank you so much 
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Thank you so much for that
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you are welcomeΒ Philippe, I hope you find my tutorials useful
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The mouth expression is really interesting - thanks for showing how you did this.
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I'm so glad you like it
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You are very welcome thank you
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After trying your eye tutorial I thought I'd take a shot at this one. I didn't manage the same level of realism, but it was really useful to show the various steps, thank you!
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Eeeee! Thank you, I'm glad you like it. I find your tutorials really useful, so thank you for making them! Do you have plans to make any others?Β
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I will be doing some more when I get the time
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That's good to know, I'll keep a look out for them
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all of your tutorials are just great... but i never get it done realistic and beautiful like that
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Thank you, you are so kind
Of course you can paint beautifully, just practise and more importantly, love what you do 
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i am already trying now again 
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This is the thing I have so much trouble to do. Making a mouth with teeth showing. Thanks!
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I have included this wonderful tutorial in the new feature for November 2013 on the front of the journal. Please the journal so that more members will see your art, and thank you for being a member
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Thank you for featuring my work on your amazing group and I'm honoured to be a member of yours
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Great tutorial!
I will be using this to help me practice 
Maybe when I'm finished I will send you a link? (if you would be at all interested ^^)
I'm new to drawing people and have been looking for good tutorials to help, and I'm sure I will learn lots from this and the others in your gallery!
Thanks so much for being an awesome person and sharing valuable knowledge!!!
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Thank you ever s much for your lovely commentΒ Aliya
Please send me the link to your finished picture when it is done, I would love to view it.
And if you need any help, please let me know and I'll do my best to assist
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You're most welcome!!
I certainly will, if I'm lucky I will have it finished in another day or two
Hmmmm you wouldnt happen to have any tutorials or know of any that are specifically on male faces? (I'm mostly finding female faces or older men...)
And thanks!
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I will be doing tutorials on the male face and features soon, as their skins are rougher and the textures are harsher
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That would be perfect ^^
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Lovely tutorials! Digital painting is even more difficult than oils or acrylic I think. Do you add the shades in layers?
Your paintings look like real people.
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Thank you for your lovely comment
I do all the shading on one layer but do different layers for completely separate items. For example in the mouth tutorial, the teeth are on a new layer
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Painting open mouths is really tricky.You have done it well. Can I download your tutorials and view them enlarged?
I would like to try the way you have shown, though I have never attempted digital portraits.
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Please download it, you will get it full size
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wow you're the first person I've ever seen reacting on comments xD cool!
You're dearly welcome!
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I still can't fathom how realistic your final outcomes always turn out. It looks like I'm looking at a digital photograph. Damn.
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That's a wonderful comment, thank you so much
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I have a beginner question for you! How do you manage to amalgamate the colors together? I mean, from the box 20 to box 21, how do you manage to crush colorsΒ at cheek? Is it a special tool that I do not know how to set or is it a gradient countless shade of beige?
(Sorry for my disastrous way to express myself in English! I hope you'll understand me!)
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No need to be sorry, your English is more than fine. This is a very common question that a lot of deviants ask me via Notes.Β
I use a standard soft brush 95% of the time in all my paintings, and the 5% is only used at the end if I ever want any texturing such as freckles on the skin, stubble on a males chin, clothes etc. When I paint apart from the initial blocking of colours, I set the soft brush settings to 50% FLOW and 50% OPACITY always, this never changes as I want to keep painting really simple. I never ever use MASKS (as I cannot work them out), the SMUDGE tool or the BLUR tool and no gradient tools either. Make sure the pressure sensitive button is pressed on for both flow and opacity so when you paint or blend colours together, such as the cheeks from steps 20 to 21, if you lightly paint one of the colours over the edges of the other, you will find that it will blend beautifully and produce naturally the shades of the two colours that you have blended.Β
I will be doing some real time videos soon and go through step by step on everything. Things like layers, choosing colours, blending etc on a specific topic such as the eye. So you can watch me paint and talk from start to finish on the eye for example.Β
I hope this helps a little but don't worry if it's not too clear as the videos in the future with show everything clearly and they will push your skill levels so high
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Thank you so much! Actually, I'm not really a painter and I'm a very beginner concerning colors! And I have no pad to work with so I try to do the best with the basis of P.Shop! I see now that painting is not the same as coloring!! x( Β But it really interested me so thank you again very much for your precious precise answer! Sure it will help me! The guidance of a master is always good to take! I can not wait to try...
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