Painting color over monochromatic sketch portrait step by step

Painting color on monochromatic sketch portrait step by step. Digital painting tutorial, I know a lot of artists start off monochrome or achromatic then go color and others start off with color.

In this tutorial is just demonstrated one approach from many. So try out different ways will be good for you, and just go with what you feel comfortable most.

Here is a quick post for those of you who wonder how to go from monochrome to color. It's kind of tricky with skin tone, basically you just have to define the existing value and paint over. But since you already have the monochrome base, it will probably safe you almost half of the time than start doing it with color right off the bat.

Sometimes I do start with base color that's close to skin hues, and sometimes I start with black and white. It works both ways, and I think it's good to be able to do it both way. Anyway, good sketching and practice for me. I haven't been doing much painting recently, but I will try to sketch and speedpaint and post them as much as I can. :)

Enjoy

Step by step painting portrait over black and white drawing.

You can also go see the video how to draw this below face here: How to draw comics batgirl.

It's the previous process before I get to here (with the exception of the costume, but the face is basically the same face)

Here is what I have for the final

Here is a bigger size for "Zombie Hunter Girl"

Also as I am changing the composition a bit since I pay too much attention on the face alone already. And adding a shotgun pistol instead of the typical ones. Hope it will work out and done soon.... spending way too much time thinking changing, tweaking,... this is what happen when you try to improvise and didn't plan your painting from the get go.

Still much work to be done so to be continued.
To see the previous process part 2: How to draw Zombie digital painting.

And part 1 from the initial sketch step by step: Female character design sketch.

-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I: Female Manga Fusion I
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II