I’m going through and adding color to all those original triangles on the forehead. TIP: Select all your shape layers over in the Layers panel and choose the stroke thumbnail and hit the “slash” to get rid of all the strokes on every shape to save yourself some time. Hit “OK” and you’ll have filled your first triangle. Now select the stroke thumbnail and hit the “slash” icon to get rid of your stroke and then choose the fill thumbnail and click on the little color picker icon in the top right corner and use the eyedropper tool that appears to select right in the middle of the triangle shape we’re filling. Grab the Direct Selection tool (A) and select the first shape that you created in the Layers panel. Now comes the fun part! We get to color all of this in and watch as the artwork comes to life before our very eyes. You’re probably fairly tired of creating triangles at this point, I know I am!įinish off the triangle grid that we’ve created on top of our model and get ready to begin coloring this thing in! I’ve worked my way down the front of the model and have almost completed the process of creating triangles. Just make sure you slow down and add additional triangles where they are needed so you don’t compromise the overall finished artwork. This also helps speed up the process a little bit. I used slightly larger triangles for the hair because so much of it is nearly the same color. Now we’ll create the shapes needed for the hair. This will give you a much better result when we color these shapes. Again, it’s important to try to draw your triangles along areas of natural couture, a triangle for a highlight and then one for a shadow and so on. When you get near areas of higher detail like the eyebrows or the eyes themselves, it’s important to add more smaller triangles to ensure you get all the details and your final result will be recognizable.Īs we build our shapes into the eyes, it’s very important to focus on creating smaller triangles to get all those details and have a pair of realistic looking eyes for our finished project which will go a long way toward making this portrait recognizable.įinish drawing the triangles over the rest of the face. Here I’ve continued downward toward the eyes creating triangle after triangle. TIP: After you draw a triangle and join the path ends, hit the Enter/Return key to deselect that path so you can work with a new path. NOTE: As you draw each shape should be on it’s own Shape Layer in your layers panel. I’ve created my first 25 shapes here along the hairline. Try to draw your triangles over areas that have the same complexion so when we start coloring these shapes everything looks proper. The trick here is use the Pen tool (P) and click right on where grid lines come together and the snapping will ensure that the path anchor point is dropped exactly on that point and start drawing triangles (not squares or complex shapes, triangles only!) over areas of the same color. Go View>Show>Grid to get your grid to appear then make sure View>Snap is checked on and go View>Snap To>Grid to check that on. Set the fill to nothing (red slash) and set the stroke to the color white and set the weight of the stroke to “0.5 pt” or so (this will depend on how large your image is.) I also like to select the cog wheel and tick the “Rubber Band” mode on (this will show me where my path is in real time as I draw it). Grab the Pen tool (P) and look to the top menu and select “Shape” from the drop down menu on the left. Use the hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + K to open the Photoshop preferences and choose “Guides, Grids, & Slices” and set the color of the grids to Light Red and choose to set a gridline every 10 pixels with only 1 subdivision.
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