Realistic Pet Portraits with Oil Painting

Overview

“Let's create an exercise together where I'll paint three furballs in different colors explaining how to add depth to your work and why it's always important to have the idea of painting one thing inside the other. This exercise also serves as a reference for different coat colors for your future work. In addition, I will present techniques to better see a work that is in production, avoiding the problems that occur when we look at the same shape for a long time.”

In this video lesson Marcelo Rochá @artrocha addresses the topic: Painting furballs in 3D 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Pet Portraits with Oil Painting. Learn to paint your pets from scratch in oils using the expressiveness of the alla prima technique.

Partial transcription of the video

“Painting fur spheres in 3D In this class, we are going to do an exercise with spheres which will represent fur balls, as if we were painting these two works. One of them is Jewels, who is an all-white Chihuahua. It's quite an interesting exercise. because we have a light and cold part, and a dark and hot part. Here at Jovi, we have a lighter part that is also bluish and a dark part that is warmer. Milie, who is the main reference of our project, she has mostly brown fur. If you are going to use it in your project a reference that has coats of different colors, as white or black, which is th...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Pet Portraits with Oil Painting

• Level: Beginner
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• 2805 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 16m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Oil Painting, Painting