![]() You can also use burnt umber in oil thinned down with Gamsol at this stage. I first toned the canvas with a yellow ochre wash in acrylic and then started my line drawing with a thinned down burnt umber, most likely in acrylic. ![]() The photo above was taken at night in poor lighting, so it’s reading quite dark. This is known as sight-sizing, which I will go over in more detail with tip number 8. I painted this portrait on an 8×10 stretched canvas and had my reference photo printed out at the same size. The next article I publish will go into more detail about how painful it was for me to paint a portrait because I didn’t take time to get my drawing right. I would encourage you to make sure you get your proportions as accurate as possible so you aren’t having to move features around on the face later as you are painting. ![]() Tip 2: Get Your Sketch As Proportionally Accurate As PossibleĪ lot of times I get a little too impatient with sketching the face at the beginning. It will give you a good sense of how wrinkles need to be painted in a portrait. Practice drawing out the rivers and tributaries in the image above. Next to the wrinkle may be a hill that will catch light from one side and cast a shadow on the other side. Think of a wrinkle as a small river or tributary which would be dark. This is the same as wrinkles on an aging face. The valleys between the hills are also a darker color. The light source on the map is from the upper left, so the hills are highlighted on the left side and go into shadow on the right side. The tributaries, hills, and valleys are the best visual metaphor for wrinkles on the skin that I can think of. The river at the top is a lighter color because it’s filled with water and reflecting the sky, but if it had no water it would be a dark color (and a very deep wrinkle). I like to think of these as the Earth’s wrinkles. Tip 1: Change How You Think About Painting Wrinklesīelow is a topographical map showing a river, tributaries, hills, and valleys. But it’s a skill you can learn and master.Īt the end of this article, I have provided a list of the supplies I used while creating this portrait. Like anything else when painting portraits, it takes practice. If you are intimidated about painting wrinkles, I hope this article will help you feel more confident about giving it a try. In this article, I’ll go over 12 tips for painting wrinkles and grey hair including how to think about wrinkles in a different way. In my portrait painting tips article, I gave a basic 3 step process for painting wrinkles. Wrinkles add a lot of interest and character to a portrait. The more wrinkles, the better as far as I was concerned. I’ve loved drawing and painting wrinkles ever since I was a kid. Painting wrinkles and grey hair have their own unique challenges.
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