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: When painting with acrylics, it's best to keep colors from getting muddy. Avoid mixing colors 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're going to continue with the blocking in, being ever mindful that we want to make sure that our colors are clear. That you're not mixing colors and making them muddy, you want to have really defined color, which is pretty good here. Let's block in the dark spaces of the face, the more shadowy parts. So we look at our reference. This is shadow, nose, neck, so lets see, eyes."
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