King Kong – part 3.

“King Kong – part 3. ” by Dan LuVisi
Coloring, Step 3 of Refining (EYES, LIPS)
Let’s begin on her eyes now, you can tell that her hair on the next image has been done a little, but let’s go on to the eyes. Now from the start, her eyes will first be filled with a soft blue color, not too dark but not too light. The pupils will be filled with a dark blue and for the pupil, just very dark blue or black. The bottom eye lid will be painted a medium toned brown; you can blend that into the skin. Once you’re okay with that, paint in a white soft circle over the pupil for the glare, and brighter blue for around the pupil. Now what you have to realize is that the eyes are very key, I can’t tell you how to do them 100%, because that’s up to you and the reference. Her eyes were very, very hard to get down. So I’ll try to explain my best. When you have those final colors in her pupils, start to blend them in together. Once that is through, use the dodge tool to lighten up the glare on her eye.
If you’re paying attention to her hair through the images, you’ll notice that it’s starting to get pretty wild. I exaggerated too much on it, and it will go down later. As for her lips now, what was started in the earlier thumbnail pictures was a basic color overlay. The colors that I used are magenta and a darker version of it. Blend those together going vertically, and also make sure the Pressure (if you’re using the smudge tool) and make sure the colors blend really softly. Always remember that females have very soft features on their face, cheeks, lips and etc. Once you have those blended together, you can start to add highlights to them. I used a soft brush, at 3 size, and pressure on and went with a crème color to blend over them softly like a light glaze. You can also use the dodge tool on it to highlight the lips just a little. The thing is, is that you don’t go too overboard with the dodge on his lips; it can really fault her look. You might also notice that her teeth are a little large lets say, but over the course of this tutorial they will go down in size.
Coloring, Step 4 of Refining (Face, Eyes, Lips, hair)
Ann’s Face: Now in this next step, we need to refine her face, make it a bit more feminine. This involves soft colors, rather then the hard ones that you might see in the previous step. To do this, you’ll want to start to paint over her original skin tones with a soft brush. Make sure you give distinct looks the right touch though, remember they are what make her.

Ann’s hair: Let’s finish this hair up finally! As for her hair, where we left off last was with the starting of highlights. What you want to achieve first is a rendered version of her hair. No more sloppy marks, don’t start until you have the hair fully threaded and realized. Once you have that done, you’re going to start with a base underlay of color to fill her hair. This is called, well to me, Under Glowing. First you want to get a soft brush, and make sure the opacity is very low, around 20%. Then select a red/orange tone, and set the brush to Overlay or you can create a new layer and do it (make sure the Layer is set to overlay) and just mess with the opacity there. Once ready, start to stroke in certain parts on her hair to get that under glow look from the outside lighting breaking through her hair.

Switch up the reds and oranges and change it back and forth to achieve different feels. When that is through with, you can start to add upper highlights on the hair. I use dodge for this but not only that, I duplicate the layer of hair (Magic Lasso tool) and mess around with my settings such as: screen, overlay, color dodge and etc.

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