but may I make a suggestion?????? His way isn't the only way...in spite of what Gary says.
If you'll take a look at the portrait mini-tut I posted a while ago when you first looked for info, you'll notice that there is another way to approach the project-----try using filled shapes instead of mainly outlines. All the outlined areas you have included could have used filled shapes for in different flesh tones...after using a basic color for each shape I would have made the lines colorless then used the feathering slider to soften the shapes' edges and this makes them easier to blend together with additional transparent layers of slightly darker or lighter colors over the top. The only "lines" I used were at the lips and eyelash lines...and in the hair....the rest of the face was entirely made with layers of soft transparent shapes.
I have not been using XaraX much longer than you.
If I can do it you can as well. It will require some patience of you though, some perseverence, a bit of practice at first. Please don't give up.
Try my method---fill those shapes, think of each area and parts of the face not as lines but as shapes---shapes of darker and lighter tones of the basic flesh color you want to use. See the shadowed areas and highlighted areas---block them in with transparent shapes of lighter or even white color. Leave the detailing for last.
I wish I could just show you---you'd be breezing along in minutes!
---As The Crow Flies!---
Maya
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
-Mark Twain
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