How to Paint a Face

Video Transcript

"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."