Expressive Watercolor Portraits

Overview

“We will be painting the first layers of our final project. We will start by observing the different colors of the skin. We will paint two or three layers to map out the colors on the face. We will paint the background color so our painting comes together more successfully.”

In this video lesson Arthur Braud addresses the topic: Painting the First Layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Watercolor Portraits. Explore color, composition, and technique to create captivating portraits with a powerful message.

Partial transcription of the video

“Painting the First Layers In this lesson we'll lay down the foundation to our painting. Remember in our previous lesson we created a thumbnail sketch and we refined it to a point that would be helpful for our process. Looking at my sketch here, I did the background and the hair color. We wanna keep that in mind when we're painting in this first step because we'll go off of this sketch and create a pink and blue background for our portrait. I chose the blue color because I wanted it to match the eyes of my subject, It would help the eyes pop a little more and make them stronger. I chose the ...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Watercolor Portraits

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (154)
• 3815 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (4h 13m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting