Techniques For Acrylic Painting - How to Paint habitancy - Painting finished Lips and Mouths

Techniques For Acrylic Painting - How to Paint habitancy - Painting finished Lips and Mouths

Learning how to paint population is exciting, and sometimes challenging. There are some tips and techniques that can help you as you begin your portrait painting journey.

Start with an definite drawing of the field you plan on painting.

Some artist use the grid method, while others free hand the preliminary drawing. One hint that you need to take to heart is this; If you don't have an definite drawing, do not exertion to paint the person. You more than likely will not accomplish a likeness if you don't have a likeness first in pencil.

Painting the ended mouth is fairly easy with practice. Painting the open mouth is more difficult and requires lots of practice. This is because you not only have to paint the lips, but the gums and teeth and sometimes the tongue. The mouth is the facial feature which most expresses the subjects' mood. The mouth and lips can make or break a portrait. They can make an otherwise realistic portrait look unlike the person or even cartoonish if you do not get it close to exact. To paint ended lips make sure that the pencil drawing is accurate. You will need to step back and view the drawing to make sure that it looks like the subject.

Using the definite color for the lips.

When you are satisfied that the drawing is correct, use a color that matches the persons flesh tone and originate the form of the mouth and the line between the lips. The color that you will use for the lip form is flesh tone with some burnt umber and alizarin crimson added to it. Be rigorous not to make the lips look too pink or red, unless there is lip stick on the subject. Lips are for real just a wee pinker or reder than the flesh color. The form color should be slightly darker than the actual lip color. Think of this stage as a coloring book. For the form of the lips you are just painting over your drawn lip lines.

After you have painted the form color, use the same color but a wee lighter and paint in the upper lip. The upper lip will be darker than the bottom lip. Now, paint in the bottom lip with a slightly lighter lip color.

Highlight the lips

Now feature both lips. The upper lip will have a touch of very light lip color or even white right along the very top town portion. The lower lip will have quite a large area of feature along the "puffy" town of the lip. The feature gives the illusion that the puffy portion of lip is rounded and closer to the viewer if you will. When you add the light or whitened highlights to the bottom lip do so in vertical strokes. You should leave a few stroke lines to indicate lines in the skin that make up the lips.

If your field is a person wearing lip stick you could be done with the lips because lipstick sometimes shows a defined line. But if the subjects' lips are natural, you should slowly blend the lip color into the flesh color of the face so that a hard edge does not exist where there is none.

Final Touches

The last thing to do with a ended mouth is to add shadows directly above the top lip where the crease under the nose is, and directly under the bottom lip and in the chin area. Painting population accurately is an art that requires much custom and patience. You should buy literature for acrylic painting techniques that demonstrates these methods.

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