King Kong – part 1

“King Kong – part 1. ” by Dan LuVisi You’ll see in where those marks basically are. Once you have that done, you can begin to lay down your highlight colors: bright yellows, beiges, blues and other forms of these colors. Use textured brushes to achieve rougher skin, mostly the brushes with a chalky feel, nothing soft though. Leave it how it is, and now we can move to the hair. Coloring, Step 3, Hair and Mouth This will be one of the toughest parts of the tutorial. The hair, it’s all on how you really want to approach it. It can either be hells work for you, or be a piece of cake. This is how I do it: I first lay down my colors that I’ll want for his hair such as seen in. I make basic strokes, where it should be light and where it should be darker. After you have those blocks placed in (don’t do too many, start slow), you’ll want to move onto his mouth again laying down the basic colors for him, lights, darks, etc. Once you have ready, you can start off on your basic grooving for the skin. I use a charcoal brush in Photoshop (you can tell by the way it looks in the brush selector). After you have blended the colors together on Kong’s mouth and everything looks somewhat decent to you, start to blend the upper lip in with the rest of the mouth. You’ll want to smudge (Strength 75%) thin lines from the lip up to create the stretch marks and other indentations. After you have completed this step to your desire, you will begin the texture. Set the flow to 80% and the opacity to 50% on the Charcoal Brush and start to mark over Kong’s mouth. Go over it first in a dark shadow tone, then go over it with a brighter tone to give the bumps or indents depth. After this task has set its basic layer, you can now start your highlights on it. I use a mix of a basic high contrast yellow, set to a low opacity, or I go around it on a Dodge tool. If you go with it on Dodge, set it to a low 25-35% and loosely brush it over. Even if it’s going over the spot in a size 3 brush and just creating little pores or bumps. Don’t be too harsh on it and over-brighten the mouth, it will look over-contrast if so. After that, I will add some pinks to the skin, which will be the fleshy part of the lip.  

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