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: The eyes in an acrylic portrait should have the darkest parts painted first. Use thin paintbrushes to outline the eyes of 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
"Okay so now let's work on some more detailed parts, let's start with the eyes. Okay so I'm going to do the darkest bits first so let's do the outline. We'll start with this eye okay so let's see just to get an idea we have the hair coming here, eye, put another space under the eye and then the end so hair coming here. The eyes going to come about, I actually need a thinner paintbrush because it's detail. K, so we're working on doing the dark bits first so this is kind of the top of the eye and we've got inside bottom of this side okay, okay."
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