Expression

Here is my expression practice. I used different photos of my own face as reference and tried my best to capture the different emotions. I found it difficult to make them seem realistic without making them too detailed. If I added too many lines, it made me look wrinkly and just not quite right. 

Directional Lighting

Here is my take on directional lighting practice. I took a photo of myself to use as reference for my drawing. I drew the girl in fine liner and then scanned it into photoshop to easily experiment with lighting.

I gave the image base colours and then started with a highlight layer set to overlay. Drawing the highlight anywhere the light would touch. I designed it so that the light source was on the left, so the girl is facing it. I wanted to practice both faces in profile, as well as lighting on a person's face. I tried my best to remember the face's bon structure when highlighting, just as one would when applying makeup (highlighting where the light would naturally hit your face).

Personally I believe there are certain parts that are inaccurate/wrong, but I am happy with how it has turned out as I don't usually work in this way. I created a new overlay layer and created a gradient of light coming from the left. I think this finished off the piece nicely.

Saturation, tint, and tone

Today we were told to experiment with a range of colours of our choice, but it needed to be limited to three. I chose purple, yellow, and orange.

We were taught about saturation, tint, and tone. Here are my colours when fully saturated.

Here they are tinted.

And here they are toned.

After this, we were told to experiment by added the colours to one another to see what is complimentary.

First I tried with the saturated colours. I'm particularly happy with they way these look.

Here are the tinted colours, and I think these also look great.

The toned colours are as pleasing, but it still works.

Here I tried mixing the three types of colour together. In some cases, such as the ones shown here, it worked very well. Though through my experimentation I found that it is more difficult to compliment a toned colour with a tinted colour, and that it's better to mix them with saturated colours for the best looking result.