Video: Painting Acrylic Portraits: Practicing Proportions

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Painting a portrait begins with being comfortable with proportions. Practice proportions before painting acrylic portraits with tips from an illustrator in this free art video.

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So, being able to paint a face with acrylics, just a basic proportion face, is, is going to be really good , if you do it enough so that you're really comfortable with just getting proportions right. It will really help in the future with your different painting compositions and, and what you're working on. First of all, when you really are comfortable and familiar with the bone structure and the muscles that are going on in a face and you are able to draw it, that's when you should go in to, in to trying to paint it. And, once you've done it a couple times, you, you really are comfortable with just putting, rendering a face with paints. You know where you're going to be starting and how you want to progress throughout the painting, in order to get the complete and finished painting of the face. So, it's just good to practice getting down everything proportionately.

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Painting Acrylic Portraits: Practicing Proportions

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