Shadowing for Acrylic Feather Painting

Video Transcript

"Okay, so at this point, I've added a little bit more of the light and darks, the shadow area and the reflective light. It's a little bit more defined now as you can see, where his eyebrows are, his eyes are going to be, his nose. Basically what I do is just add in solid areas. Again, it doesn't have to be super detailed because we're not at that stage yet. It's good at this point in the shadow area to add some of your colors like the raw sienna. I use my finger also as a blending tool. You can add other colors in there, reds, blues. You don't want to use anything like yellow or oranges at this point because you're just trying to add a little bit more depth to the dark areas. You're just kind of going very lightly adding some colors in there. My paint is already starting to dry up here. That's why we use very little. You go in and add a little bit light. Again, not super detailed. We're just showing where the light is going to be giving you a little bit more definition. Okay. Still it as this stage, it's very rough. You might not be able to tell if it's a man or woman at this point, but that's okay. It'll all come in the final stages when you start adding detail."