Anime Girl Picture

Insert on her eyes the colored shadows now. It's necessary first to paint the upper eyelid on a new layer with the necessary color, then blur out the copy, selecting the usual Gaussian Blur. Minimize if necessary the layer's Opacity and erase everything that is situated beyond the skin's bounds. Use for this the Eraser Tool with smooth edges.



Make the girl's skin now look shinier, but make sure first that all the layers are merged down, except the layers containing the eyes and the hair. Create a new layer for the beginning which must be combined with this one (ctrl+g). Using the Gradient Tool from different sides, insert accurately on the skin an easy whiteness, selecting long colors' extensions:



Use a Brush Tool of Hard Round type and introduce on the picture several shadows on the girl's hair (you may use for this operation the Pen Tool too).



On the brighter face's parts we may insert a brighter color, applying the same method we use usually for darkening.



Use a Brush Tool now of the same type we used for representing the flares on the eyes and picture the flares on the girl's hair:



Create a new layer now above the layer containing the hair and group both these layers. Make the hair after that look brighter using the same Gradient Tool we applied for the skin:



Continue with the contours' layer. Make a copy of it (ctrl+j) and blur out the copy using Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur.



Minimize the Opacity of the copy-layer till 70% and merge down all the layers: Layer - Merge Visible (ctrl+e). Erase the black color from the picture, selecting next options: Image - Adjustments - Selective Color.

 

Next step includes creating a new layer under the rest of the layers and paint it in one nuance only, using the Paint Bucket Tool. Take now the Ellipse Tool and draw several circles behind the girl (if you want the circles to be drawn very accurately, keep pressed all the time when drawing the shift button).



The illustration is finished!

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