Introduce

In this work, I want to interpret a new feeling of an old Chinese poem, and try to make it more fantasy ,sci-fi and surreal. So I start doing research…here is some I searched on Google.

Concept / Sketch

Here is some rough concept sketches, compose with the pipa(the musical instrument) photo and graphic elements to get how it’s looks like below. And I chosed the suit one to start painting.

Black and White

In this step ,I strat with black and white first, and I draw every elements for each layer, that is because is more easily to change color for each elements,use the Hue/Saturastion and Replace Color tool to change color. So, I fill a gradient on the background, and put the sketch as a guide line above, lower down the opacity.

Painting hair and the shadow on the feet. Painting chair and add pipa (musical instrument)

I used gradient tool couple times to paint the chair, jit is easily to get smooth. And adding speaker and the strings on pipa. I used the flower brush to design the pattern on the pipa. Ok, it almost done there with black and white. It’s the time to go to use Hue/Saturation and Replace color and Selective color tool to change color.

Color

Here is some steps that I used Hue/Saturation and Replace color and Selective color tools to adust color.
First, I used Hue/Saturation tool to get basic color tone. Second, I used Replace color to give her skin more red and pink color.

Now, the the skin shadow looks too dark, and I want it more bright. So I used Replace color tool again. And I used Selective Color to give the high light skin more yellow, more looks like asia people skin.

I used replace color again to give more saturation on the shadow part. The light bounce from skin will get a little red and orange because subsurface scattering. And I used Selective Color again to give the high light part a little blue, because many tiny vein under the skin.

I used basic paint brush to paint the lips and eyes make up. And then, use Hue/Saturation tool to get the basic color of chair sofa.

Use replace color to give the dark side more red, looks like purple. Hue/Saturation tool again to get the basic tone.

Glowing Effects

Change the background and add there some effects. Here I used soft airbush paint the glow and radial blur it for couple times.

And I used color range tool to select the white section, and fill white color on another layer, using gaussian blur.

And I put some text from the poem behind the background, like graphic design. I typed the text and transform the type to surround her. And I duplicate the text couple times, and using motion blur for vertical and horizontal direction.

And ,Finally It DONE~!!
So, here just show some method that how I working on the piece, and hope that will be help.
If there have any question or suggestion, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks!

Yu Cheng

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