Hand Painting [Step by Step] Tutorial

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EID MUBARAK TO ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD!
Kul am wa' an'tum bi-khair!  

Hand of what I'm making right now, since it's Eid I wont be on for few days and I don't want my account to die so here is a little ish that can help you and me.
Used: I used photoshop to paint this but you can use anything like Clip Studio, Paint tool SAI etc. it will have the same outcome, I have used a Mouse to paint this, it will not matter what you use. stylus, finger or mouse. I was able to make this with mouse I'm sure you can too. here the details of what I did in this.

1. Line art: This is a simple line art. not much to explain here right? XD
2. Color base: In a picture there are 4 colors "Shadow" "Dark "Highlight" "Skin" so I always start with the Skin color which is somewhere between the shade and highlight.
   
3. Shade: Now add the "Shadow" color on the fingers, when you look at your hand you see that only the top section is highlighted and the lower/around the finger has a shadow of the other fingers. so let's do that
4. Highlight: Use the "Highlight" color on the top of the finger and on the middle section of the arm.
   
5. Blend: Now to blend in the colors, either Blur them. but most people don't blur it for it does not give the best look but any case I blur it because it's not very easy to blend things in with a mouse. 
6. Lining: Lining is when you remove/hide the lineart. the picture would look unbalanced and not so sharp how it should be! so this is when you use the "Dark" color and make a THICK line around/between the finders. and blur the tops that are on the finger but not from where the second finger starts. (if you make a thin line, it would just look like the line art and we wont want that by blur/blending in the top side it will give it a good flow and shape)
7. Details: Let's fix the nail. since nails are a little bit more (white) than the hand we use Highlight color on the nail and then add shine, which is simple white dot/line that is a reflection to the light. 
8. Shine: Use really white (not completely white) and painting lines where the light is hitting the Most.

Correction: Do not use white and black for the shades, this is a mistakes mostly people make (I used to too) XD use the darker color of the same Hue.
Tip: If you don't have a great flow of hand (it's not your fault) use Pen Tool to make Layer Masks so the color does not go out of the place. (mostly artists don't use pen tool they paint the basic color and select mask it just like it but you don't need to if you are having trouble with)

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