As Joe McNally says, an Environmental Portrait is a Face in a Place. The setting is just as important as the subject, and the goal is to merge those two elements together in front of the camera. Join Joe as he takes viewers on three different shoots and tries to find the right mix of lighting, detail, and atmosphere to tell the story.

This tutorial will explain how to paint portraits or faces in variety of point of view and styles. You will also learn how to manipulate shape and form within the value ranges to change it into any unique set of facial features. Learn how to arrange skintones and balance color temporatures. Using cool and warm color as an effective tool to balance the portrait illustration. In this feature tutorial, you will learn to digitally paint female head (face) from three different face samples and be able to paint facial structures using eithercolor, values and shape to achieve the final result.