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Before we go any further, let’s pick a light source—that is, the direction the light is coming from—so we know where to draw the highlights and where to draw the shadows. For this particular image, the light is coming from the top left corner, so there will be more light on the left side of her body and less on the right.
While we could technically start anywhere with shading in the image, I usually like to start with the subjects themselves. After all, they are the life of the image—the clothes and hair and everything else are simply accessories. So let’s start with coloring in eyes, lips, and skin. We’ll make the guy’s eyes blue, the girl’s eyes purple, and her lips pink.
Now we’ll do some shading using a combination of the Brush tool (B) and the Dodge tool (O). I usually like to use the Brush tool to manually select lighter or darker shades of the same color for highlighting or adding in shadow, and then use the Dodge tool set to Highlights to create a bit of a glow around the highlights.
So let’s use these techniques and shade in the eyes and the lips.
Using the same Brush and Dodge tool techniques, let’s shade in the rest of our subjects’ bodies, being mindful of the direction of the light source and the shadows their hair or their clothes will cast on their skin.
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