How to Paint Aged Clothing in a Portrait

Video Transcript

"So, next, we're going to be aging the clothing. And for this, I'm going to want to have a couple different shades of gray. Get gray by first taking white and then adding in some Mars black and using our palette knife here, mix it up. Actually in this case, I don't even want to make it fuller monochrome, you can have different shades of gray because, as you're going to see here, we're going to use a bunch of different types of grays. Warmer and cooler varieties of gray. This under painting of blue here is very vibrant and strong. It looks like, you know, just bought this outfit down at the store. So, we're going to age it. Because we're going to go with kind of more of a zombieish, ghoulish look for our female subject here. So again, to illustrate the examples of what you can do just by building up the layers. You can see automatically, it's already starting to look more dingy. I'm not even always like taking my brush and dragging it over the colors. More of kind of like a spotty. And when you do that, you get like these wonderful areas of like a regularly shaped emphasis to where the paint's a little thicker than it is elsewhere. Now, I'm extending this brush work down this way. Again, just kind of dragging, taking some of the muted tone out. It's really; you can also see that where I'm allowing the blue to still show through and this is one of the magic?s of under painting. Because now this looks much more, much more of substance than it did before. Here's something else you can do, you can always take some paint. This is a little lighter for effect, I'll blend this more with the blue and basically, what I'm doing here is I'm adding in lose threads. This is not a nice, sewn, new shirt. This is more ragged. Raggedy. There are lots of lose threads going up over in here. You can also take this, see how this border is nice and strong, you can also take this to dig our big gashes where there are just chunks missing where the material has fallen away. You can take these in as deep as you want just make sure to keep giving the impression of, you know, lose threads in fabric. This isn't going to be like something take a bit out of this. It's going to be like frayed edges. Now, we're going to extend these aging effects we've covered onto the rest of the clothing."