Painting Acrylic Portraits: Practicing Proportions
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Supplies
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Reference Pictures
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Basic Outline
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Filling In Spaces
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Defined Colors
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Eye Outlines
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Filling In the Eyes
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Adding Highlights
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Shadowing the Eyes
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Shadowing the Nose
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Finishing the Nose
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Shadowing Nose to Mouth
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Highlighting Nose to Mouth
Painting Acrylic Portraits: Highlighting the Top Lip
Summary: Painting a basic outline is the first step in creating an acrylic portrait. Outline the face when painting acrylic portraits with tips from an illustrator in this free art video.
Anna Greene-Smith is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from MassArt in Boston in 2006 and spent some time studying at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She is...read more
"We want to start with the basic outline of the face. Let's look at our reference, this is it. We're just going to be doing the face right here. We've got the face, ear, a little bit of the ear this way, so let's go ahead and block that out on the painting. We're going to mix up a kind of fleshy color here, you'll get used to doing this, and seeing what works out, but we're just using some red, white, and yellow here. Let's put it on here, kind of just blocking it out, getting the outline of the face here. Get some water. This is just blocking it out so we see what we're working with. And then we want to get the ear, right here. So there we go."
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