by teaching myself at home …
Practice is the key. Take photos out of magazines, or old photos of yourself or your family, or even better if you can get someone you know to sit for you, and just copy them down onto the canvas. Acrylic isn’t the best medium to use because it isn’t easy to blend on canvas, and it doesn’t give a very natural look that you normally want for portraits. You could try using oil or water colour instead, oil’s easier but quite expensive, and watercolour’s cheap but you have to be fast.If you really want to work in acrylic then I’d reccommend havig tons of colours mixed up in various shades and using lots of different tones gradiated so as not to make the shading look sudden and blocky. Light and shade are the most important parts of painting, so when you’re trying to get down the shape of a face, don’t do outlines of the nose and mouth like a cartoon, use shadow and highlights to bring out the shape. If you can’t make out a feature just using light and shade, you’ve not done it right.
Best of luck.
January 30th, 2010 at 2:12 am
Practice is the key. Take photos out of magazines, or old photos of yourself or your family, or even better if you can get someone you know to sit for you, and just copy them down onto the canvas. Acrylic isn’t the best medium to use because it isn’t easy to blend on canvas, and it doesn’t give a very natural look that you normally want for portraits. You could try using oil or water colour instead, oil’s easier but quite expensive, and watercolour’s cheap but you have to be fast.If you really want to work in acrylic then I’d reccommend havig tons of colours mixed up in various shades and using lots of different tones gradiated so as not to make the shading look sudden and blocky. Light and shade are the most important parts of painting, so when you’re trying to get down the shape of a face, don’t do outlines of the nose and mouth like a cartoon, use shadow and highlights to bring out the shape. If you can’t make out a feature just using light and shade, you’ve not done it right.
Best of luck.
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