King Kong – part 1

“King Kong – part 1. ” by Dan LuVisi Sub Tutorial, King Kong’s Eye: There isn’t a full tutorial for his eye, but I will take you through it. Paint in the overall color for his eye ball. Put in the oranges, different shades of it. Do not highlight yet. Let the black line art take over it, and round off the eye in itself. Once that is through, smudge it around with the brush As for Anne, don’t even start on here yet. She won’t come until you’re ready (as I did), or until Kong is finished and you want to finish up the picture by doing her. Coloring, Step 1 of Refining (EYE SOCKET): This is where we start to bring our character to life. We want to start developing the wrinkles formed around Kong’s eye, add some highlight to the eyeball, and bring out that thick/yet worn texture on his skin. Where you start off is easily, smudging is our friend in this painting. Use the smudge brush, with strength of 65% and just start to merge those thick colors together. Make it a bit messy, so the skin looks rough and tattered. Once you have a some what of a good messy look, use a smaller brush, a size 3 brush and start to dab in those tiny details. You can also use the Dodge tool to bring out a higher dynamic highlight to the skin tones. Coloring, Step 2 of Refining (EYEBROW, NOSE): Here is where we start to focus on the eyebrow. This part can be tricky and somewhat confusing to some beginners. What you basically want to start doing is overlaying your colors, getting those right tones in there. Once you have the applied tones that you are okay with, you will start to smudge them softly into each other. You can either smudge, or set your pen to Pressure Sensitive (Which can be found in the Help, or in the Brush Options under Other Dynamics>Control>Pen Pressure). I suggest the smudge, so you can get in those rough marks easier. Once you have that basic color mesh/bulk all set up on his eye brows, start to move in the darker blues, purples or yellows to create more depth to the deep thickness of the skin. Where the eyebrow folds down into the socket, closest to the eye, you will want to make the black not so harsh against the yellow/blue. By doing this, again you can either smudge or color over it with pressure controlled dabs. Once you have the eyebrow taken care of (in its beginner stage), we can now start the work on King Kong’s nose. Our main light source is hitting from our left, his right. Most of the yellow differences will be on our left side of his nose and then start to flow into a blue tone, mixed with magentas and soft lavender. This will be taken as the same approach was made on Kong’s eyebrow. You’re going to want to fill in that pink scar too, just to keep it blocked so you don’t go over it in any other colors. The trick with the nose is that it’s going to be one of the longest parts to paint, surprisingly because there’s a ton of tiny details that will need to be explained to make the texture look spot on. So first, as said, you’re going to need to mesh those patterns together. Mark in a few dark splotches for indentations, grooves or bumps.  

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