Today I really want to practice painting with acrylics and capturing my own style
together
so I've accumulated a few things: I've got a paper plate for
a palette -
some paintbrushes
I want to draw faces particularly but who want's to draw
faces with boring old normal colors? so I got these colors
and I'll be
starting off in my sketchbook
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now I picked out all of my flat brushes you
can tell they're a flat brush because the brush looks like a round brush that
someone sat on
(this one is actually an angle brush)
so I thought it would be good to
start off with these because I don't want to get into detail I want to try and be
a little bit abstract with this and I want to focus on like the planes of
the face and capturing my style in the paint that way
I'm going to be using my
mechanical pencil first and I think I'll just sketch out a face really really
quickly I'm gonna just be a little large with it
figure out where the nose and the mouth eyes are
let's angle the shoulders
a little bit to make it a little bit more dymamic
did I just say...by.....dy....
English.
(to make it a little bit more dynamic)
I'm not gonna worry about
erasing this sketch afterwards so I'm going to just add in a smallest amount
of shading I don't want to leave too much guesswork for when I start adding
in the paint
I do plan on like filling the entire spread, so I want to start simple
so I don't discourage myself
I don't love it but I do plan on
drawing more faces o I just want to like throw paint at it
I thought this
dark blue would work really well for shadows then I have White to lighten
up anything we need and then purple obviously is the color between pink and
blue so I got this just so I wouldn't have to mix colors as much
this is acrylic paint so it is going to dry pretty fast
I'll need a tone of white.
right I'm gonna start with a biggest brush I have this is a twelve flat, a
little dirty but it'll work
I think the way I want to go about it is maybe start
with basically the flat pink as a base tone and fill in the whole face and then
start adding shadows in with the purple and the blue
and the flat brush will
hopefully stop me from trying to be too detailed with it
and yeah I'm using
paints in a sketchbook that's a little weird but it's just how I like to work
obviously the sketchbook is not made for acrylics but I haven't had any problems
a little bit more white up here to the forehead though so let's start by next
going in with a little purple maybe I'm gonna leave the pink on my brush and
start adding this where I want it to be darker
I'm in my sketchbook which allows
me to be a little bit more creative with it I feel like it helps me not stress
out about making things perfect
I think for the hair I want to go straight blue
I'm gonna be really abstract with the ponytail just add splotches here and
there blend out some of these colors
even though that's not really what I'm
trying to do I'm trying not to be too blendy because I want to just practice
capturing something vaguely because I think if I can get better at that than
adding details of things/adding detail on top of something that already has the
good foundation is definitely gonna help my art overall in the future
oop I messed that
eyebrow up
oh well
I can actually had straight blue right under the chin
then maybe
blend it out just a little (even though I said thats not what I want to do)
let's mix the blue with some white
just highlight the top here and there
now I can't really do her eyes with this
wider brush I'm gonna switch to a thinner flat brush here
go in with
straight white at first
OOP! that is beautiful. look at her.... okay
now this was the whole reason I wanted to do this exercise whenever I start
adding paint around the eyes is when I really lose my art style
I think the most obvious feature of my art that kind of like tells people yes
I'm the one who made that is eyes and when I tried to do the eyes in paint I
just completely lose it
it doesn't look at all the way I want it to or like the
way I usually draw eyes
so it's the whole reason I'm doing this and I plan
on drawing a bunch of faces and hopefully we will see improvement even
just today and in the future
alright I just accidentally splotched some of
this like light pink paint on her face
I think I'm getting to that stage where
I'm overworking this so I'm gonna let that dry and it can just look the way it does
I'll come back to it when it's dry and see if I can add detail on it and how it
goes and then I can compare that to the rest of the art that I make on this
sketchbook spread so I'm just gonna scootch this over a little bit
clean the paint brush
hope that this paint here doesn't dry on me
while I sketch out the
next character I'm gonna try a different angle of the face too
just to make a little bit more interesting
there we go, we got a little face
make a nice simple
hair like I just fill in with color
something about this face doesn't even looking right (without paint on it)
let's throw some paint at this one now
the big brush again I think I think I definitely want to start with a
lighter color because I seem to add dark colors on top seems to be my process
quickly add a base coat I think I want the light source lights from over here
hey I'm gonna draw the Sun there and then as I draw characters around it I'm gonna
keep that as my light source so if the Sun is here, her eyebrow..i don't know what that's called
but the eye holes
under your eyebrows would be casting a shadow all
around here would be in shadow
okay there needs to be more purple in this I
should have just used straight purple probably -- trying to think of the
plains of the face
went a little crazy
lighten it up when we get to where they're overlapping
I'm suppose to be using the wide brush so let me
just go bigger on that
add a little eyebrow action
it's still a little wet so
hopefully we can blend it although it doesn't seem like it's blending, the brush is
a little wet so it's a little transparent
I was gonna switch to the
smaller brush okay got the smaller flat brush
add a little pink around the eyes
just seeing what looks good seeing what doesn't
it's all about experimenting and
finding my painting art style
try adding some pink for the lips I just realized I've completely abandoned the lips
EW I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it
yeah I actually think
I hate this one [laughs]
like that's a strong word but mmm kind of feeling it
but I think what's wrong here I think I know what I'm doing wrong I'm trying to shade
the face a little too much and I like it to be a lot simpler
I like flatter shapes and things like that/flatter colors I think it's
probably a better way to put it so let's try one last thing and if this doesn't
work I'll get some references with some lighting and we can practice that from
real life - What I'm trying to do is just translate my style to paint and if I
decide that the problem is that I don't know faces well enough then it's time to
go back to studying from life which probably should have started with anyway
but I thought I thought I was trying to do something else but I think everything
always comes down to practicing from the life so I shouldn't be too surprised
here we go, add some nice big ears
I think I'm gonna try this time is to be a lot more subtle
with the shading because you can see this is kind of my style of shading the
face- can you see how different these two look ?? I'm
going way too crazy I think I'm getting very overwhelmed by the art supply and
thinking I have to do something one way when that's not at all how I usually do
things which would explain why it's turning out so messy because it's not
something I do on the regular
give her some hair, nice and simple
see my style is kind of simplifying
and I'm trying to add way too much shading and I think that's definitely
where I'm going wrong here so this time let's try and add a flat color to each
element first that seems like an interesting place to start
oh let's do
I still want it to start light though
let's try very light pink for the skin again
I'm not gonna add any other
tones to this not right now
that's not what we're here for
fill in the shapes
there we go nice and simple now I want to add a little bit
more darkness around the nose and underneath the eye so I'm
going to switch to the smaller flat brush grab the pink maybe with just a
little bit of white for now kind of blend it in just very subtle shading I
also want to add a little bit of blush to the cheeks
make it pretty dark there
I'm liking this better already
a lot subtler
just need to blend out these
cheeks they went a little overboard
I think I'm gonna try this nail art brush
try to just define this nose a little not crazy about it so far
I'm currently only using the one color and white so it's definitely easier for
my little brain to wrap around
which might be a good place to start it's
almost like working in greyscale because it's monotone but it's obviously more
fun because his pink
might try adding a little purple right under the chin
I've kind of given up
on my flat brush idea
add a little white to the eyes they are getting lost in
there somewhere
come back! eyeballs!
highlights
the Nose still completely lost its shape
I'm a little lost as to how to fix that though except just like maybe
drawing it in as if it was pencil but with paint - i can try that
nope that didn't really work
darken up a few things, add a little bit more contrast here so for today my
plan was to just try and practice capturing my style or finding my acrylic
paint style really I've dabbled I just haven't really found my clear vision yet
(this paintbrush is driving me mad)
so it just takes a little a finagling I kind
of changed up the light source it's coming from over here (sorry mr. Sun)
I think I'll go back to the little nail art brush use the blue try my darndest to do these eyes
properly
slow maybe
focus on the shape
just try to get it right
probably my best so far
this lash is a little droopy
I'd really like to one day, the dream, is to be able to make like a big
canvas painting of a portrait of some kind but like in my art style so it's
kind of important that I know how to do that first before I jump in, right? I mean
I suppose jumping in it's never terrible I like shading faces with markers
because of the way they blend in and out they're usually subtle enough where it
looks nice she doesn't look all that happy just kind of blank faced so
emotions maybe will come later
I might actually go over that with some pink
it's light pink mixed with the white wonder if I can like somehow do what I
learned from this face and move it into this one -- can't make it worse I know that
switch back to the nail art brush that would be an awesome sign if I could
somehow take what I learned from that one and fix this one I think that means
I'm going in the right direction
but I might need a little more experience
before I have that ability
but if I can even come close
that'll put me in a good mood
I mean it's better it's an improvement I'm
basically evening out the tone canceling out most of the shadows that didn't make
a whole lot of sense [cough] losing my voice oh [coughs]
it's a little too wet to try and add eyebrows they're just blending in but I like it
better I can actually look at it without baby barfing in my throat so that's a plus
eh whatever.
guess for the hair I'm gonna go straight
blue kind of like we did over there just start filling in the shape so it
might need a couple coats cuz this blue seems to be a little runny - add a little hair coming out here
I think the
smart thing to do would be to try and draw one more and see if I really
actually learn something here or I just got lucky I mean hopefully I will get
better the more I do as soon as I figure out what it is that I am doing
PENCIL!! my favorite art supply I'm so glad to be back with you - okay
so let's do one more we haven't done any faces looking left yet so that seems
like the obvious choice
make sure that the eyers are lined up
guess she needs a body they are all so headless.... well
(they're all so bodyless)
don't really plan on painting it
for me art styles and
their exclusivity like the way they look like a certain person drew though I
think almost eighty percent of an art style of an artist's art style is in the
face obviously there's ways to do like line art and stuff that carries
throughout the whole piece but I feel like faces are the part that people
really differentiate between artists so that is why I am focusing on faces when
I'm trying to capture my art style in paint
there we go - good enough!
start adding in some paint
I don't know if I want to switch to another color yet I
want to make sure I can do pink since Pink's the closest to like a
natural skin tone that I have here so let's go in again pink, with white, mix it all up
add in our base color - a little hand down here
muppet hands
next I think I grabbed pink I just started adding a
darkness to the nose and the cheeks and maybe the ears as well I would like the
ears to be even Pinker than that so uh redden up the lips
alright it's not going too bad yet - though I don't know if the other ones look bad right off the
bat did they? maybe I'm blinded because they're much children
[mouth clicking thinking sounds]
a little white to this color
just to lighten it up oh that's kind of pretty I love that color
oh
it's like a periwinkle almost
so I know a lot of you draw with me so I was
wondering what are you drawing right now if you're drawing along be really
weirdly specific like I am drawing the right side of a bang styled in a fashion
popularized by the model from the 1960s named Brigitte Bardot
let me know what you're drawing
I guess it's the left bang isn't it
it's her left bang, right from my point of view
I was using the blue as
line art at this point
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darken up some of these areas
add highlights to the eyes again
that always makes like a huge difference
for the nose...what did I do? I added purple this one from the nose
let's try that again
and I still want the nose just to be Pinker I don't I'm
saying how it ended up so light
I'll let that dry and add just the tiniest little
highlight on it
I think I might be almost done with this one but I do think
I am headed in the right direction I do like these two more than these two -
even though I kind of enjoy the way this face looks like the structure of it even if
it's a bit of a mess
I'm happy with today's progress
art is definitely a
process takes time and I think I'm slowly figuring out how I like to use
acrylic paints obviously there's like a million different ways and styles and
forms that you can use acrylic paint I'm just trying to find the one that works
best for me
this one I think I did um resort back to like the errors I was
having with this one
so it's nice to know that I got it right once I want to
thank you guys for watching I'm kind of like to fix this though before I sign
out i'm just try fix this one last time
yeah i do prefer the subtle flat look
even if this maybe went a little too far in that direction
oh art, you continue to drive me mad and keep me coming back for more
I think from overworking this face it got a
little muddy but I did manage to accomplish the look I like with the
darkness around the eyes and the nose and pretty flat around the face so I'm
happy with that
I want to thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed watching
me practice drawing acrylic paint faces trying to capture my style in acrylic
paint and maybe I guess more so find my acrylic paint art style
let me know what is
something you've been practicing lately and something you want to improve on
that if the putting time into or you'd like to put
time into in the future
I'll see you guys all next week and I hope you have a
delicious evening full of waffles!
BYE!
that was a weird wave....uh bye. [giggles]
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