Digital Painting - JSTEV Character

This is my first Digital painting. After seeing numerous Digital Paintings I was inspired to do my own and what a success! Digital Painting is the same as real painting, everything you see was created by line strokes (there's no smudging). You have to have experience with colors/painting in order to successfully pull off Digital painting. It took about 14 hours to do this (using a mouse and Photoshop) and probably like a million clicks/strokes LOL. The beauty of digital painting is precision, being able to do layers, being able to undo (only used undo for big mistakes) and a free and huge color palette. I've learned is to keep doing your color strokes even if it doesn't look as if it's going to be what you want because you are continuosly doing layers of color, its okay it come out in the end! To start a digital painting you need a sketch or outline of the work (like in real painting) then you start off with your main colors for example: the shirt is mid light blue under it all! all the dark colors are layered on top to give the shadows and the lighter blue is to show where the light is (you blend by adding stokes that gradually draken/lighten the color); I found the face to be the easiest to do (mainly because I usually draw/paint people). Lastly I added a cloth over the eyes (an artistic expresssion). Cloth is very tricky to do and I was fortunate to pull this off! I love this Digital Painting and I advise everyone to at least attempt it its fun and rewarding and there are lots of tutortials and Youtube videos to guide you!!