Watercolor Drawings: How to Paint Expressive Eyes

Overview

“At this point, the most important part of the eye is already pointing ways, and we are done with the most difficult job of all, which is wet work. Now, we have to close the context of this eye by adding dry elements: these are the eyelids and eyelashes. Let's do it!”

In this video lesson Carlos Rodríguez Casado addresses the topic: Dry work of elements, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Drawings: How to Paint Expressive Eyes. Take your watercolor drawings to the next level with our course. You will learn to paint realistic gazes in your portraits..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we are going to work on the rest of the parts of the eye, everything that surrounds what we have already worked on, but instead of doing it wet, we are going to do several dry parts and then combine the work between dry and wet. What we are going to achieve by working like this is to enhance the effect of the work we have done wet, that remains more melted to us, less sharp, and what the dry work is going to do is, let's say, frame it. The first thing I'm going to do to get ourselves in position is to work on the thickness of the eyelids, which is a line that I will really ne...”

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Course summary for: Watercolor Drawings: How to Paint Expressive Eyes

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  Illustration

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  Fine Arts, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Watercolor Painting