Before I put brush to paper for this painting, I had an idea of a new formula to follow for an easier way to paint light skinned portraits, but I didn't know if it would work or not. But my goal was to create a painting process that is easier to follow for more beginner level artists that doesn't get too complex when painting a portrait, which can take many, many layers of glazes to get all the nuanced values painted correctly.
I've noticed a style of painting portraits lately that I thought was very aesthetically pleasing but also a simplified way to paint, mostly because the medium values are lightened. This creates more contrast in a light skinned Caucasian portrait, and contrast is a very pleasing thing to have in a portrait.
To my delight, as this painting unfolded, I realized that I was onto something because this didn't even go through the usual ugly stage because there were so few medium values - it was mostly light and darks. 80% of the time, a painting in the ugly stage is ugly because there are too many mediums, I'm convinced! It takes a lot of work to build up nuanced medium values in a portrait, and then even more work to balance them all out to get the portrait out of the ugly stage, so in this tutorial, I just left out MOST of the medium values. Taaaaaa Daaaaaaaaa, MUCH easier way to paint portraits that look good! So I am VERY excited about this tutorial!
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You will receive:
*Downloadable Tracing
*Downloadable Reference
*PDF with links to tutorial you will have indefinite access to
*Watch me paint in real time (about 3 hours) with commentary
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