If you look closely at the portrait, you will see that in many areas the initial line drawing is still left in, becoming part of the final piece. The final result has an artistic flare to it, not a polished finish, since what we are looking for is broken colors that combine to create the illustion of a more finished portrait.

On our portrait we intentionally leave broken color passages and areas of the face where greens and blue greens shine through the warmer skin tones. We are trying to achieve an impressionistic style, rather than a traditionally rendered one.

The method is similar to what we have been using so far: using the oil brush in combination with the custom color jitter brush we build up the colors avoiding that any area appears too flat. With the custom color jitter brush selected, we start to build up the color base, varying the foreground and background colors every few brushtrokes, so that the different hues start to appear on our canvas.įrom here onwards we continue refining the colors and values in the whole picture, carving out the volumes of the portrait. Our goal now is to block in the big masses of light and shadow, but do it in a way that we sprinkle around a variety of colors, but always within our chosen color palette. We set our line drawing layer to multiply, then create a layer underneath it, and then we start adding in opaque paint with the color jitter brush. We want to explore color variation at the same time that we work our way up through our portrait.įor that reason, after our line drawing is done, we start to add in colours straight away with our newly created color jitter custom brush.

In this portrait we want to achieve a more impressionistic look, rather than a refined, smooth one. This portrait is done in a slightly different way. This is because I would like to share new ways of painting with you, tips and techniques that you may not have tried before and that will most likely make you grow as an artist. The technique you are going to learn in this tutorial is a bit different from what you would typically see in portrait painting tutorials.

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