From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to add this hand shading around the guy's eyes. And notice that it integrates nicely into the natural highlights, and that's going to imply that he has a very deeply set brow, and it's creepy to boot. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to the composition so far. I don't need that scars layer that I painted in the previous movie, so I'll press the Backspace key, or the Delete key on the Mac, to get rid of it. And then I'll create a new layer between the two I have so far by pressing control shift N, or Command Shift N on the Mac, and I'll go ahead and call this layer shading, and press the enter key or the return key on the Mac. Alright now, go ahead and grab the brush tool which you can get by pressing the B key, right click inside the image window and crank the hardness value down to zero percent. And I think we're looking for a size value of about 200 pixels to start off with, and then I'll press the enter key or the return key on the Mac to accept that change. And I want to paint with a very deep shade of blue. So I'll go ahead and click on the foreground color icon down here at the bottom of the toolbox and notice that I've already set the foreground color in advance I'm looking for a hue value of 205 degrees. I've got a saturation of 100% and a brightness of 15% and by the way, if you're looking to paint with a dark color that you're going to blend into an image and you want that color to show up at all, that is you don't want it to look just flat black, then you want to combine a very low brightness value with a very high saturation value. Otherwise you're not going to see the color at all. Alright, we'll go and click okay to accept that change and then, I will begin painting around this guy's eyes. Now, I want to retain some of the detail over here on the side of his face, but I want to go all the way up to the top of the eyebrow like so. We do not care about the eye, I know that seems weird, but we're going to actually have to fill the eye in with black anyway, in order to rebuild the eyes next week. So, I'll just go ahead and paint over this region as well and I'll paint over the eye and then down along the side of the nose. And I might paint a little farther over here into the left side and then I'll paint over the brow over here. If you feel like you've gone too far, at any point in time, you can just go ahead and grab the eraser which you can get by pressing the E key and then you'd want to right click inside the image window take it's hardness value down to 0%. Let's go with a size value of 150 pixels let's say. And then, I might erase away just a little bit of this stuff right here and over here on this side as well. Alright, now this time we need to do a slightly better job of blending this shading layer with the layer below it. And so I'll start by changing the blend mode from normal to multiply. That is just too dark so I'm going to take the opacity value down and the easiest way to do that at this point is to press the shift key and scrub the word opacity up here at the top of the layers panel, and I ended up taking it down to 60%. Now, I still think we can do a better job of integrating the natural shades inside this guy's face. And so I'm going to double click in an empty portion of the shading layer, in order to bring out the layer style dialogue box, I'll go ahead and move it over. And notice this final slider bar, Underlying Layer, I'm going to go ahead and drag this white triangle over to the left until I get it down to a value of 100. Which tells Photoshop to take any luminescence level that's 100 or brighter all the way up to 255 for white and make it force through that shading. But, if you control click, or command click on the image a few times, in order to zoom in like so, you can see that gives us very choppy transitions, which is why you can smooth things out by pressing the alt key or the option key on the Mac, and dragging the right side of this white slider triangle back, like so, so that you're creating what's known as a fuzziness in between. And I'm going to take it all the way back to 255 so that we have these nice, smooth, transitions. After which point, press the enter key, the return key on the Mac, to accept that change. And now, if you like, you can paint in more shading. By pressing the B key to switch back to the brush tool, and then you can paint down underneath the eyes like so, to make sure that his eye bags are nice and dark as well. Alright, but, I want his brow to be darker still and the best way to make that happen is to create yet another layer of shading. And so, I'll press Control Shift N, or Command Shift N on the Mac, to create a new layer, and I'll go ahead and call this guy darker brows, and then I'll just go ahead and paint once again with the brush tool. I'll make my brush a little bit bigger and I'll paint like so over this region, and like so over this area, again if you go into the eyes, it doesn't matter, we ultimately need to make them black anyway. But, you don't have to paint into them, it's up to you. Alright, so just want to make sure that all of the under areas of the eyebrows is painted in and I actually want to paint this little guy as well. So that we don't have a little bit of extra brightness above the eye. And there's no sense is seeing all the image here. I'll just go ahead and zoom in on the brows, and I'll double-click on an empty portion of this layer to bring up the layer style dialogue box. The first point of business is to change the blend mode to multiply, so that we're burning in those shadows. And then this time around, I'm just going to alt-drag the left side of the white triangle, that's going to be an option drag on the Mac, in order to move it independently so the value before the slash reads 150 and the value after the slash reads 255. And then, I'll press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac, to accept that change. And you know, I think it's entirely possible that I've gone too far on the eyelids here. So I'll go ahead and switch back to the eraser tool, and then I'll increase the size of my cursor by pressing the right bracket key a few times, and I'll paint over the top eyelid like that, and I'll paint over this top eyelid as well. And even though we have a little bit of a scrapey effect going on over here under the left hand brow, his right hand side of course, I think it's going to work out fine. So we'll go ahead and press Shift F in order to switch to the full screen mode and I'll center my zoom by pressing control zero, or command zero on the Mac, and that is at least one way to paint some deeply set brows for your White Walker effect, here inside Photoshop.

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