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Illustrating Shiny Lips - A Step-by-step Tutorial

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I made this tutorial exclusively for Xisto.com, so please don't post it anywhere else ;)

 

You *can* do this in Photoshop, but I personally used Portalgraphic's Open Canvas to draw it. I used many steps but I took screenshots of the most important ones.

 

I hope my English is understandable, I'm sometimes not absolutely sure how to call certain things, like 'wrinkles/folds' in the lip.

 

One doesn't really need advanced skills, but it's easier when you know the basic things like choosing a brush, changing the opacity and size and such. I hope you enjoy :D

 

 

 

 

Step 1~ Choose a skin color and sketch the outline of the lips, draw a nice overall shape, it doesn't need clean lines yet.

 

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Step 2~ Start filling in the upper lip. The upper lip always has a slightly darker shade than the bottom lip. I used the airbrush tool for this.

 

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Step 3~ Pick a darker color and add some shadow to the upper lip.

 

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Step 4~ Also choose a lighter pink to make the upper lip a bit more colorful.

 

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Step 5~ Pick a different color and fill in the bottom lip.

 

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Step 6~ Add shadow to the bottom lip.

 

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Step 7~ I added a blurry white line, again with the airbrush tool, on the border of the lip and the skin. Grab a dark brown color and draw a dark line *between* the lips.

 

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Step 8~ Goood! :)

 

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Step 9~ On to the shine, keep using the airbrush, and pick a soft pink *or* a white-ish color with a lower opacity and draw short fat stripes on both part of the lips.

 

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Step 10~ Keep going and slap a big light spot on the bottom lip in the meantime as well :P

 

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Step 11~ Lower the size of your airbrush, or you may choose a harder brush, and draw even lighter 'wrinkles' on the lips, these are the highlights.

 

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Step 12~ Great, now grab a dark brown-ish color again and draw 'deeper' darker wrinkles.

 

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Step 13~ I wanted some more color, so I chose the pink again and added a bit more 'shape' on top of the lips.

 

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Step 14~ Defined the bottom of the lower lip a bit better...

 

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Step 15~ And added some thicker white highlights on the right side of the upper lip and another white stripe on the left of the upper lip, to make the skin shine.

 

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Step 16~ I'm not sure if I like the sparkles, but hey..I had to add some sort of final touch :D This is our end result :)

 

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Good luck with drawing your own pair of lips and let me know if you have any questions or comments :( Thank you for viewing! :o

 

 

 

 

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Do you use a mouse for your art? If not what kind of equipment do you use?Your art is very good. 20 years ago, I never would have thought people would be drawing on their computer, now your kinda a old timmer if you don't. :) Great job.

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WOW! awesome tutorial the lips looks very nice and realistic :).. you shold make some more such type tutorials for people who need such things :P... agan good job :P

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Wow that open canvas program looks really cool. Im wanting to get a wacom graphic pen now, I guess Ill have to start saving since they are sort of expensive.

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