Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial.
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we are going to do dry brush.
Place a little bit of oil paint on your palette, and then dab it lightly
with the brush.
Then clean the excess on a piece of paper or a tissue paper
or a rag.
And now we can paint with it, I suggest you to start in areas
that are not so important, or that will be dark.
Such as the back of the head, or this part of the hair behind
the face, which will be very dark.
We can test here and when we feel safe, we can go over the skin.
Vey good!
Go over it lightly in different directions.
It is better to go lighter and darken little by little,
because you can always darken more, but you cannot
go back and light it.
Good!
Now with a little bit more paint and a flat brush, I do the edge.
As you can see I had already drawn the outline of the face
with pencil, that´s because this tutorial it´s about dry brush
specifically.
But in case you´re interested on how to sketch the portrait of a person,
at the end of this video I´ll place links to two portraits
I made in pencil, narrated step by step.
Continue the same procedure with very little paint but with a small brush,
for the detail.
Now the eyes...
And continue in this way, enjoying your painting.
Of course if you need to go a lot darker, grab more paint
but generally for shadowing, you use almost a clean brush,
like this.
I love painting so much!
While it is wet, you can erase and pull lights with a regular
pencil eraser.
Nice, eh! [laughs]
Now let´s do the lips and the shadow under the face.
This is such and enjoyable technique.
The list of materials is in the information below the video.
Ok good, now we need to really darken this area
behind the head.
With a flat brush, we can make some lines indicating the hair.
Very good! And with a thicker round brush, we can give a general tone,
in this way.
Let´s go back to a thin brush for the detail.
Of course you can go back from thick to thin, as needed.
With this small brush and more paint, let´s do some of the fine point.
And more definition for the lips.
The upper lip goes pretty dark, as it is in shadow.
With almost no paint on the brush, let´s build some more volume.
And now the back.
I´ll do this, with the round thick one.
Little by little, as before.
Good! Here goes the shadow for the arm.
And back to the detail of the hair.
This is so enjoyable to do!
Some lose and small ones over here, will give it more life.
Let´s darken the tone while also working on more particulars.
I hope this video and this technique is been helpful to you.
I´ll give it the last touches and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by: Grethel Trejo