.:: Making faces for beginners ::.

Ok, this is just how I do them, it's cos I'm not a good drawer and can't get proportions right and stuff.

First of, cut out the face of the skin and then paste it into a new layer (should appear right over the top of the first one)

Now, set the contrast to 0, this should make it entirely grey. This is what everyone tells you to do, but I havn't read a tutorial that told you how to do this next bit.

Set the layer transparency to about 80%, just to the point where you can see the origional skin behind the grey. Now, trace the vital points like the nose, mouth and eyes. This should ensure that your skin wraps fine around the model and that the mouth isn't in the wrong place or something.

Please tell me if you found this tutorial useful.

Cheers!

Why I never though of that?emote_sweat I forgot you can set layer to something else than 100.

But this method is only good if you recolor and dont want to erase the line. Thats still nice.

Yeah, that's what I do. But, I don't leave it like that, I draw the lines then set the opacity to 100%, so I don't see the origional skin anymore and think that my new face is screwed up or something.

That's what do I do to whole skin... isn't this written in pencilgod's tuto?

what do you do next? it stays grey?

No, you burn and dodge the grey actually making the skin, then creates a new overlaying layer and color it.