Kewl tutorial man! that 'start of with greyscale' techinque, was shown to me by a friend of mine, it seems easier to work that way. anyhow I love the pic, and like you said tastes vary, i'd leave her eyes just slighty open..

Wow. I don't think I could recreate that, ever. I'll try one of these days though

Petar: I have some questions for you. I never try to draw something in photoshop I''m not that good, but when I saw your tutorial I decided to follow it and try to do something. Using a photo of mine, like a guide, I decided to start.

The main problem I have it comes in the second stage, once I have the basic shape of the face I don't know how to use my tools to start getting details on it. Like mount, eyes, nouse... I have to continue using burn and dodge till the end ??? with other sizes ???

And by the way, which are the RGB colors for the skin ???

thanks in advance...

MAX

Thank you for your kind comments, I really had fun with it. I also wrote another chick tutorial, but it got lost when gameart.com got fried.
you can still find it here..... http://www.gfxzone.org/articles/making_of_shadows_of_reality-article.html

anyways, Max, I don't really understand what you are asking. You don't know how to use tools, or you have trouble getting the details into it. Basic shape is there just for the reference. Think big - start small. However, I don't really recommend using grayscale for this kind of stuff, I suggest colour technique. But in this case keep doing everything with dodge/burn and zoom in if you are working or delicate detail.
As for your question about the RGB colors, to make a decent skin colour you need to have alot of variations on surface. usually I use blue, pink, orange, brown, red, green, set to small opacity. In the tutorial mentioned above I explained it a bit.
Hope it helps

Thanks for the tutorial dude, this is the jumpstart i need to start learning how to paint in photoshop. I applaud you sir for your generous effort to instill your knowledge to newbies such as myself

Thanks for the tips.

yeah, thx dude! nice tut AND ur writing style's pretty holarious. helped me lil newbie alot!

I love it! The colour techniques, dodge and burn, who would have thought these simple tools could make a picture so beautiful. The position of the head gives the image a comforting fealing, and the goggles add a serious touch. Brilliant!