Schoolism - Digital Painting with Bobby Chiu: Week 1 + 2 recap (Photostudy)

Week 2 for this course required the student to apply colour to a painting using the color layer blending mode in Photoshop. I decided to do a photostudy using Bobby's method of painting during last week as a recap for week 1 and 2 of this course. So playing with flow and opacity settings of the brush - and using a color layer!

Reference pic used came from a group of reference photo's for artists that's been on the internet for quite a while. (she's very orange on the actual picture as well)

Schoolism - Digital Painting with Bobby Chiu - Week #01

Worked on my second Schoolism course during last week. The goal of the assignment is to get you to understand how the lecturer (Bobby) thinks when he's painting digitally. For this you are provided a drawing which you are then supposed to paint over while following along with Bobby's lecture, and eventually finalize in your own time.

< The sketch you're provided with. (NOT MADE BY ME)

My final painting. 

As is visible in this painting process there's a lot of emphasize on how you structure your paintings. Starting out with the dark silhouette and adding in lights first, shadows second, etc. etc. until you get to a point where detail becomes more important and your attention has to shift to whatever you feel  demands it most at the time.