Friday, March 23, 2018

Painting #3: First Portraiture

Here is the portrait I will paint. I plan to crop the bottom half so I will lay my canvas horizontally.

Mapping out the facial features + adding the background color and shirt color

Mapping out the range of colors for her skin + defining the facial features

Adding hair color


Darkening the darkest darks...

Attempting to blend the darks... looks very muddy! Started to define the features of the shirt as well.

Adding in more color to the hair.

Smoothing out the skin.

Re-darking the darks. Adding more detail and shading to shirt.
Warming up and blending the skin colors together. I will have to go back and add more darks because she 's starting to look washed out. I also reshaped the lips which I plan to add more detail to when the paint is more dry. I am starting to like the shading around her neck, but need to add more of that to the right side of her face and under the eyes.

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Painting #5: Final Project

This is an old photo of my dog Hunter. After day 1 -- mapping out the range of colors and starting to work on the nose.