Create an Amazing CG Illustration of The Incredible Hulk

Step 17 Shadows

Based on light your shadows will fall in opposite direction of light source. In our scene shadow will fall on left side of character. Proper shadows gives the character a natural look. If you add shadows to everywhere, then your scene may not look natural.

Step 18

Select a round brush with size 50 pixels and hardness 75%. Press F5 to access brush panel, set “Opacity Jitter” to “Pen Pressure”. Change the brush color to #041b00 and paint shadows below neck area.

Step 19

Paint some more shadows on face too to make it realistic. Reduce your brush size to 30 pixels and add shadows to the left ear, cheek, etc. Change the brush size when necessary to get desired shadows.

Step 20

Change your brush size to 50 pixels color to #030602 and add some dark shadows to the character.

Step 21

We have added sufficient shadows to the character, but you will notice that the brush strokes visible in character. To fix that we will smooth the blending we did in previous steps. Select a soft round brush of size 50 pixels and opacity to 70%. Open brush panel by pressing “F5” and set “Opacity Jitter” & “Flow Jitter” to “Pen Pressure”. Turn “Smoothing” ON and set “Spacing” to 11%. Save this brush with name “Smooth blending brush”.

Step 22

Now select the brush you created in last step and start smooth blending by repeating step 12. With your soft brush you will get perfectly smooth blending.

Step 23

Repeat step 22 and smooth all other parts of the character. Pay more attention while smoothing small details like face, ears, eyes, etc. Avoid over smoothing because if you smooth too much, you may lose some finer details in character.

Step 24

Now it’s time to add some fine details in face including wrinkles, edges, etc. Turn off your sketch layer, set your brush size to 2 pixels and set your “opacity jitter” to “pen pressure”. Save this brush and rename it to “Sketch brush”. Change your brush color to #142406 and start adding details to the nose of character.

Step 25

Similarly add details below eyes and smooth the details where necessary, change your brush size whenever needed to get better features in the face of character. Don’t forget to set Opacity Jitter to pen pressure in your brush setting. This is important and would be used everywhere so keep the brush setting same as in this step and use it in this tutorial instead a default brush.

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