Making and Shading the Nose

1. Open a new canvas 400X400 RGB white 144 ppi.

2. Insert a new layer. Using the center color on the color palette on the right, Fill the Layer 1 with the flesh tone. Color palette is provided for convenience. all lines you sketch will be blurred and smeared later so be brave in your drawing!

2. Using the darkest color on the color palette, (left middle), sketch in the nostrils with a hard paint brush size 9 just left and up from the 150 pixel X 300 pixel and to the right and up of the 200 pixel by 300 pixel mark.

Sketch the left and right lower curves using a hard paint brush size 3.

3. Select the upper left hand color from the color palette provided. Using a 19 hard brush draw down the center of the nose to the tip, just above the nostrils. Widen it out another stroke.

Using a number 5 hard brush, draw semi circles around the nostrils and down from the nostrils to the bottom of the drawing where the lips would be in an a-frame like drawing.

4. Using a Number 13 soft brush with the Middle right color, outline the left and right side of the nose. trace between the nostrils, around the insides of the wings and from the nose tip down between the nostrils and the hollows below the nose, between the lighter lines.

5. Select the middl3e color (same as background. Choose a 27 soft brush with opacity of 45 %. Set to COLOR BURN and run up one side the nose and down the other, shade in between the nostrils and above the nostrils.

Set the brush now to COLOR DODGE and highlight the tip of the nose using the same brush.

6.  Apply a Gaussian blur at about 10.0. This will nicely mix the colors.

7. Using the smudge tool with a soft brush of 35, and and pressure at 75%, stroke the nose wings in the direction shown in # 1 below. Draw the smudge tool up both sides of the nose as in #2 below. Change your pressure to 20% and draw your smudge tool from the tip of nose down to the depressed area under thenose.

Using the Smudge tool set at mode= darken, pressure at 75%. hard brush of 19, darken he nostrils with the strokes shown in #4. Then take a soft 35 pixel brush set at 30% pressure, normal modem and with the center top color from the pallet, run it over the lines in #5 to smooth out the lines and shade eye sockets, mouth area, etc.