Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2013

How to Paint citizen - Painting Human Eyes - learning to Paint

How to Paint citizen - Painting Human Eyes - learning to Paint

Let's take a look at some step by step tutorials and techniques I use to paint people, specifically focusing on how to paint eyes with acrylic paint. This part is about painting and does not cover drawing portraits with the eyes. Every single time that you paint an eye make sure it contains these elements; unabridged precise shape, the upper and lower eye lid, the pupil, the iris, the sclera or white of the eye, the upper and lower lashes, the eyebrow, the corner membrane, and the catch-light.

Components of the Eye. There are a lot of components of the eye and it is the most complex facial feature to paint. If your painting is not to be too detailed, you can omit the eye lids the corner membrane and maybe even the lashes. The pupil should be black or extremely dark using burnt umber and it usually has a reflection in it. This reflection or catch-light should be two toned, matching the whites of the eyes. The iris will have some tones and is never just one color. The whites of the eyes are never pure white but shades of gray, and will most likely not be the brightest spot on the face or the whole painting. I usually add a tiny bit of red in the corner membrane.

Also, when painting the eyes, remember proportion. There is most usually a distance of one eye width between the two eyes.

Painting the Eye. Paint in the white first. Now paint in the iris. Fill in the iris area with most of the iris color. Add specks of other color within the iris. The iris is usually quite a few colors. Brown eyes have a touch of black and maybe even yellow. Study your subject for precise color variation. Use an out lineof a darker shade like burnt sienna and figure the whole iris. Now with the same burnt sienna paint in a pupil. Depending on how the light hits the eye will depend on where the catch-light of the iris will be. Make sure that the catch-light hits both eyes in generally the same spot however. A line painted in over the top of the eye will serve as the upper eyelid. Some population have a specific line to define the lower lid as well. The eyelids should be painted how you see them.

Eyelashes When painting eyelashes, paint what you see as well. In reality peoples eyelashes rarely protrude straight up like a cartoon! Eyelashes are usually seen as protruding slightly upward and sideways. They are usually in small clumps as well. I have found that sometimes when painting a man's eyelashes, less is more. Sometimes they get one or two tiny lashes and that is it. The same hold true for children and even women. Paint a few representative lines to indicate lashes, step back and look at it before going on. Also remember not to create them too long as they will look unnatural.

Eyebrows The last parts of the eye to mention are the brows. You can assuredly overdo the brows if you aren't careful. Again, study your subject and quote lessons in "How To" books for practice.

Finish Details. You will add tiny but leading details now to quit the eye.


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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Acrylic Portrait Painting - studying to Paint

Acrylic Portrait Painting - studying to Paint

Painting habitancy takes practice. Painting habitancy or portraits in acrylics or watercolors is done by painting in layers. While you are building these layers, you may be tempted to give up too soon. As long as the features are settled correctly, painting portraits in acrylic or watercolor just takes layers and patience.

How to get the person's feature correctly drawn.

Getting the person's features correctly is the most foremost first step in portrait painting. I suggest using the grid methods to do this. In this example, you are painting from a photo or picture. Use a pencil portraits aren't what you expected. You will more than likely need to institution and practice. Have fun and enjoy learning to paint.


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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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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