In this picture I am creating abs on one of our actors. At first I thought it would be fairly easy creating the abs, especially after drawing out where I'd add each shade to help shape them. After some previous research, I ended up using a thick fluffy brush and a thin defining brush to create the desired look. Using a darker color than his skin tone, I made the baselines shown on his shirt in the image. Then, using the thicker brush, I slowly started blending the lines in and creating shadows.
This is a picture I took of the brushes we used
In this picture it shows the brushes I ended up using. The brush to the left is the thinner one, which I used to make define lines. While the brush on the right was used to blend the lines and add shadow to the muscles. When creating the abs I started off with a light base line using the thinner brush. Then I blended out the lines, creating shadows. This helped add definition to the abs. The only down side to this was, after blending it made the lines almost disappear. So redoing the base lines were needed. While making the abs definition and shine, I tried using a lighter color in the middle to show the light reflection, but when I added the color on the shirt it wasn't visible at all. So I resorted to only using the darker color on the sides around the muscles and left the middle mostly untouched.
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