Digital Painting Techniques

This is a quick sketch that I created for he base layer of my painting, based on the theme of video game violence ( the angry gamer)

This is my first attempt at at digital painting. I feel that I was being a bit ambitious for my first attempt, I had no idea of what colours or brushes I was going to use and thought it wasn't going any where, but my tutor told me that paintings take time and patience, so I was determined to have another go but look at more simple forms like features to help build up some confidence.

I am quite pleased with this result, I took my time to pick the right colour pallet and used a much softer brush, then I slowly built up the forms forms until the forms took shape. Then I used the dodge and burn tools to further darken and lighten the tones. I think that the nose has the best finished result, the colours look more subtle than the eye which looks a little to vibrant, I also think that I should have given the colours of the iris more thought. Looking back I realise there are many tools in photoshop that could have helped me with this process, I could of used selections for the eyes to help me keep the iris round, I could have created custom brushes to help me achieve certain textures for the eye brows and I could have used layers to keep all the lights and darks tones separate, so there is definite room for improvement.