Stylized Portraits in Watercolor

Overview

“In this class, I will show you how to mix colors to build a skin tone palette and to create combinations that work well with various shades. ”

In this video lesson Caroline Passos addresses the topic: Introduction to watercolor painting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylized Portraits in Watercolor. Learn how to turn a photograph into a stylized and simplified portrait using watercolor.

Partial transcription of the video

“Introduction to Watercolor Painting In this lesson, I’ll show you a bit more of the colors I use to create a color palette when painting. I also like to use some key color combinations and I’ll show them to you. I have some of the colors here on paper and the mixes we’ll use will be based on those colors. Usually, when mixing for skin tones, I like to use earthy colors, like browns, oxides, which are red browns, ocher, which is a type of yellow and sometimes, I like to use some white to add a bit of opacity. These colors I’m using now are a bit far from the color wheel, but if you want to b...”

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Course summary for: Stylized Portraits in Watercolor

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (77)
• 1433 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 40m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Painting, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting