Video: How to Paint a Face

Painting the face on a person can be very difficult, but with the help of our art expert you will be painting the eye, nose and mouth of any character with ease. Get tips on figure painting in this free video art lesson clip.

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Hi I am David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to paint with acrylics the female figure. O'kay now that I have got the female figure and the body pretty much laid out the way I want it I want to kind of address the face but it is a small painting and it is really only the eye and the nose and the ear so I really don't have to do much to indicate the face there. This is more of a stylized painting and it's going to look realistic but not photo realistic. I can take the raw sienna and just a smidgen in there and then that will darken that up and I can come in here and just indicate the nostril and then for the eye I am just going to come over here and indicate very lightly the eyebrow and then come in and do the pupil. You are going to have to have a very small brush. This is not even as small as I would like it but you do the best you can with what you have so less is more really right now with this painting. Now over to the ear I come in here and kind of indicate ear canal and so forth and I can leave it like that. Now that I have that indicated and there is a certain part of the face over here has been left out so I am just going to come back and just fill that in and make it more in proportion to what I am doing. That black was a little bit dark for me so I went in and softened it up just a little bit. O'kay so that is stylizing the face.

How to Paint a Face

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