Portraiture in Watercolours

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3 жыл бұрын

One of the harder subjects in watercolour, I think, is painting faces and portraits. As always though, a few pointers and tricks can go along way to helping us with our watercolour portraiture.
In this video I start off talking about some basic principles of portraiture and painting faces. We look at how to properly place ad align the key facial features. What should we be looking for?
After that I break down the face in to only a handle full of key shapes and we ask what tonal value they are. Tis gives us the tonal map for our portrait or face painting and makes the whole process of tackling this subject with watercolour much, much easier!
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You can find various formats of this painting demo on my Patreon Teaching Channel, links below:
There are various other portrait paintings on there in watercolour, plus acrylics.
50 minute narrated version:
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Shorter time-lapse:
/ portrait-in-time-47300582
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Пікірлер: 56

@shahrzadafshinpour5847 6 ай бұрын

You are an amazing teacher as well as an amazing artist. So grateful to find you.

@kristenrobinson7189 3 жыл бұрын

Always found people to be the most tricky subject to work on but yes the key is always to simplify, thats some insanely good work.

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely...I find them a real challenge! So easy to make them to complex!! Thank you so much ☺️🙌🏼

@chiarasola826 Жыл бұрын

Stunning! And you make it look so simple...!

@armandosrd.l9610 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom for this video! I enjoyed it 😊😋

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

So pleased! Thank you :) T

@OksanaBurr 3 жыл бұрын

This is such an amazing visual example of breaking down into simple shapes and values. Also love how all these colors work well together. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Oksana! Appreciate the support as always m! T

@DanBuell 2 жыл бұрын

That was fantastic - thank you so much!!!!

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! T

@JAsisterti 2 жыл бұрын

a great tutorial, thanks Tom ! :)

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!:)

@shahrzadafshinpour5847 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Tom. You are amazing.

@mamounabbas2107 2 жыл бұрын

This is a clever process to break down the face features into simple shapes and limited tonal values... Thanks Tom.

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!:) T

@lisalisana 11 ай бұрын

I love this! Bravo!

@vee35233 2 жыл бұрын

Wow Tom, this is an amazing tutorial! Thank you for breaking down the process so effectively. You make a very difficult subject look simple. Love, love your painting! .

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Veronica. So please it helped. I am amazed by how simple we can make our subjects and still create a good painting. T

@sue6002 2 жыл бұрын

Looovvvved this. Marvelous art!

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sue!!!:)

@sue6002 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomshepherdartist rewatching over and over. 🙂👍🏼👩🏻‍🎨Cheers!

@xVentax 3 жыл бұрын

I just love your loose style of watercolour, and envy your ease at producing the perfect picture. I’m particularly interested in portraits, so this is wonderful, thank you!

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! They never feel like the perfect picture, but we’re all critical of our own work hey!? Some more portrait videos to come over next few months :) thank you for the support and kind words. T

@melanieopperman6688 3 жыл бұрын

Tom, your channel is amazing- foundational and advanced principles and techniques are generously covered, making your site essential to artists at any level. Also mostly relevant for any medium. Thank you so much, I'm already seeing an improvement in the structure of my preparatory drawing..

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Melanie, thanks so much for such a kind and generous comment! So glad you’re getting something from it. T

@HeikeX 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, amazing painting! Thank you so much for your videos. I really enjoy them and they are really helpful. Love both, animals and portraits. Looking forward vor more tutorials! Best regards from Germany.

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! So pleased you enjoy them. Kind Regards, T

@leighanne5201 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely superb! and easy to digest. Thank you for such a great video.

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Leigh Anne!!! Hope you are good!!☺️🙌🏼

@carolpenn1155 11 ай бұрын

Amazing I really wish I could do this!

@tomshepherdartist 11 ай бұрын

Thank you...practice and more practice, it’s all learnable!! (You should see my attempts at painting faces less than 8 years ago, ha!!)

@jojones7474 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom, after your demo the other day I was literally wishing that I’d signed up for your previous demo on portraits as I find them really hard and like magic my phone just notified me that you had done one on KZfaq so as soon as I’m back from the hospital I know exactly what I’ll be watching! Thank you so much for sharing your talents in both art and in teaching! 😊

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Haha that’s great! Definitely a sign then ;) Hope you enjoy it!!:) T

@chipcurry 9 ай бұрын

Incredible.

@tomshepherdartist 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!:)

@sjommillera2109 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful! Love the looseness!

@tomshepherdartist 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!:) T

@sanshine5128 3 жыл бұрын

Superhelpfull and stunning painting! Thanks so much🤗 But; so many members and so little likes..🧐Everyone on a holiday??

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Ha! I’ve no idea, the mystery of “the numbers” 😅🙌🏼

@Bhodisatvas 3 жыл бұрын

So very weird! I was just thinking about faces as abstract shapes, opened youtube and the first thing on my feed was this video :) Time to get my watercolours out. Thank you!

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Well if that isn’t a sign!!;) 🙌🏼

@tomshepherdartist 3 жыл бұрын

Let me know what you think....More videos on painting faces in watercolour to come!! . You can find various formats of this painting demo on my Patreon Teaching Channel, links below: There are various other portrait paintings on there in watercolour, plus acrylics. 50 minute narrated version: www.patreon.com/posts/portrait-in-long-47421035 Shorter time-lapse: www.patreon.com/posts/portrait-in-time-47300582 www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt Upcoming Zoom Demos www.tomshepherdart.com/zoom-painting-demos ____________________________ Cheetah Video on Simplifying your Subject: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btd8h5N-1NHHdIk.html Thanks for watching! T