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: In acrylic painting, the top lip will be highlighted more than the eyes. Highlight the top lip 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
"So this line of, of white it's going to be above the top lip, you can just see it here. You can see how the shadow from the Cupid's bow ends just there and right there so let's go ahead and add that to the rest here. Okay, alright that's about right, let's roll it up here. This whole area on the face comes out more so it's not going to have as many shadows. It's going to be more highlighted then the eye area."
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