Preliminary drawing for a portrait in oil. The drawing demonstrates how the features of a human face are located within an imaginary square. The width of the face at the level of the cheekbones is equal to the distance from the hairline to the interlabial line. The eye line runs in the middle of the square, and the tip of the nose is positioned halfway between the eyes and lips. (Figure 1)

At this stage, color and tone are added to the hair and a more saturated color is superimposed on the face and background of the picture. The sketch is now less linear and (Figure 3)

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This is a finished drawing ... It can be left as it is, or used as a sketch for an oil painting.

This kind of sketch makes it easier to work on a real painting. (fig. 4)

Modeling is the preparatory work of defining large light and dark areas for a drawing or painting, a very important process in terms of composition.

Distribute light and dark areas so that you get an interesting composition. Consider large planes and outlines that will create a pleasing overall effect. Details can be added later.

To simulate a portrait, when zones of dark and light tones of different saturation are outlined, it is very important to find the ratio of size and shape. Saturation means the degree of brightness of the color. Tone - determines the ratio of light and dark in a drawing or painting, regardless of whether they are made in black and white or in color.

You should not make a drawing as an island in a sea of \u200b\u200bwhite paper, it should fill the entire sheet.

The partially veiled face is interesting in terms of composition and design of the painting. Here, accessories such as a veil, scarf or high collar provide many possibilities.

Tips When drawing the head in profile, leave a little more background in the front rather than the back of the model. In this illustration, the head is positioned exactly in the center of the canvas, which narrows the front space too much.

Here the head is slightly shifted to the right, which gives a more favorable effect.

If the head is placed too low, it can give the impression that it "falls" beyond the plane of the canvas; if it is too high, it will sort of “float”. When thinking about a drawing or painting of a person's head, find the correct position from the beginning; in this drawing, the head itself is aptly placed in the center of the image. But when the neck and shoulders are added to it, you can see that the whole composition becomes heavy at the bottom. (fig. 1)

In this picture, it looks like the head is too high, but there is still enough room for the neck and shoulders. And you can see that the head is in place and the image is balanced. (fig. 2)

Oil A limited palette of colors was used for this work. Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Natural Umber, Natural Sienna and Titanium White.

First, a light gray tone was applied to the canvas, on which the contour was then sketched with burnt sienna using a No. 5 column brush with a sharp end. After the drawing was completely dry, a transparent layer of burnt umber, diluted with a mixture of linseed oil, was applied to it with a flat brush “20” and dug. In the next stage, the face was covered with a flesh tint, which is a mixture of burnt and natural umber and white. The dark mass of hair is painted with clean and burnt umber.

At the end, pink lips and cheeks are finished with burnt sienna and titanium white. The gray background around the hair is made from a mixture of natural umber and white. Thus, the finished painting is almost full of color, although it was painted using a rather limited monochrome palette. First, outline the facial features and determine the position of the eyebrows. Next, apply a flesh tone base, the unpainted areas will serve as the shadow.

Draw out the lips and add details to the nose and eyes. Outline the ear with the earring. Apply shadow near the front of the face to create depth and soften the shadows on the face. Add color to the details: lips, cheeks, nose and eyes.

An important part of the picture is its background. However, it can conflict with the subject of the image if the color or model is too conspicuous, but if the background is too gray and even, the feeling of space and air between the background and the subject of the image disappears. To give more volume and roundness to the head, you should lighten the background where it touches the shaded side of the head and, accordingly, darken the background where it touches the light side. This will also create a sense of space between the head and the surrounding background.

On a transparent tone of pale green cadmium, diluted with turpentine with a few drops of desiccant for quick drying, superimposed with a flat kolinsky brush No. 20 over the drawing. After drying (within 24 hours), on top of the first tint layer, a second transparent and thin layer of burnt umber is applied, which must also dry. This process is shown separately in the illustration to show the color and saturation of the tint layers.

We build the composition of the model. In nature, shadows appear transparent, so here diluted paint is applied to shadows. When working on lighter areas, paint should be applied more densely.

This pattern includes predominantly dark and light colors. Some parts of the tinted canvas on the left remained unpainted, becoming part of the image. This is a complete picture. The shaded side of the face merges with the general background, which gives the image of the head a roundness.

Here we used kolinsky brushes (flat # 20 and pointed # 5) and a palette of paints consisting of: Burnt umber, pale green cadmium, Venetian red, yellow ocher and titanium white. This limited palette still produces a wide range of skin tones.

Tip A 40x50 canvas gives you good scope for proportioning the head, but you don't have to limit yourself to a specific size or configuration. For example, the above composition is tall and narrow.

The upper lashes are thicker and thicker than the lower ones, so they should look darker. The lower eyelashes become longer and more voluminous closer to the outer corner of the eyes. The placement of glare in the eyes should be carefully considered, and the glare should not be too large (a large glare makes the naturally wet eyes appear to be covered with glare). The upper eyelid casts a light (but noticeable) shadow over the eyeball. To achieve the desired wet look, place a small highlight where the inner edge of the lower eyelid meets the white of the eyeball. Don't make the protein too white - it should actually match the skin tone quite well. The iris has a softened edge - it's not just a colored disc on the surface of the eyeball, but a color zone within it. At the pupil, the edge gently passes into the iris. Sketch of a head measuring 20x25 cm (canvas on cardboard). The sketch was covered with several light layers of matte fixative.

At this stage, the facial features were outlined with a # 5 core brush, and then the hair and color background were worked with a palette knife.

It is not necessary to paint the entire canvas. In this painting, for example, open, unpainted areas on the canvas are part of the overall composition. The flesh tone is composed of a mixture of cadmium orange, ocher yellow and titanium white. Hair is made of natural sienna and burnt umber; the background in the upper part on the left is earthen green; the background at the top right is pale green cadmium; dark places behind the face - pure burnt umber.

The image shows different color saturation of the picture.

In the section: Lessons for drawing with oil paints

Materials Blue paint Paint Mountain mixture white titanium paint Cadmium yellow paint White 1 "Landscape brush Painting knife, * 5 Fan brush, * 3 ...

If you dream of learning how to paint a portrait in watercolor, then put aside all fears and doubts and, using this step-by-step drawing tutorial for beginners, feel free to take the first steps towards making this dream come true. The available recommendations with step-by-step photos will help you easily master the basics of drawing a portrait of a girl with watercolors.

Tools and materials

To paint a portrait in watercolor, you need the following materials:

• watercolor paper;
• pencil;
• eraser;
• watercolor;
• brushes with a thickness of one to four (it is advisable to exclude the use of synthetic materials and give preference to natural ones: squirrel, ponies);
• a glass of water;
• palette

How to paint a portrait in watercolor: a step by step guide

1. First you need to build a face with a pencil on paper. For convenience, it is best to take the photo from which the portrait is to be painted. In order to correctly perform the construction, it is necessary to measure the angle of inclination of the head, the height and width of the head, the ratio of the parts of the face in relation to each other.

When drawing, you need to follow the pressure of the pencil - the lines should be light, non-greasy. After the portrait is completed with a pencil, you should erase all the auxiliary lines that were used to build the face, leaving only the main lines - the outline of the eyes, nose, lips, hair, face oval.

2. The next stage of the work will be the drawing with watercolors of the initial "frame" of the color component of the portrait. First of all, it is necessary to register the darkest, as well as prominent places in the portrait to obtain volume, but you should not get carried away with any particular area of \u200b\u200bthe face, you need to register the entire portrait with a thin layer of watercolor.

Advice! To apply large-scale shadows, you can use brushes numbered 2 and 3, for drawing small details (eyes, lips) it is better to take thin brushes - numbers 1 and 2.

At this stage of working out the picture, it is good to use the technique of staining, to prescribe the entire portrait with local colors. To better see what shade you need to apply to this or that part of the face, you can slightly squint your eyes.

In this process of work, you do not need to blur the contours of the shadows, but you need to be careful not to darken the light areas of the portrait. The first layer of watercolor should be thin. Watercolors must be diluted well with water.

3. After the first layer dries up, you can do a more detailed drawing: apply a background with a light layer (brush number 4 is suitable for this) and fill in all the white areas in the drawing (hair, clothes) with watercolors.

Important! The final detailing is still far away, but at this stage of the work, the watercolor should be applied more accurately and with jewelry than at the beginning of the work.

When registering dark places, it is necessary to slightly blur the edges between the color spots with a damp brush, forming them into a single soft shade. This procedure is necessary to achieve a realistic image. For this elaboration, brush number 2 is suitable.

On a note! It is worth knowing an important rule that you should not prescribe dark places with pure black.

It may seem that black dominates in the darkest place, but you should not use this color in its pure form, without first mixing it with another.

To understand what color you need to mix black with, you need to look at the photo, squinting your eyes. Also, so that this color is not too active, you can paint it with a thin layer, and overlap it with another color on top.

4. The technique of painting with watercolors is a technique of gradual darkening of a picture by superimposing layers on top of each other. But it is worth remembering that a watercolor portrait must first of all be "airy", so the main thing is not to get carried away with overlaying layers. The final detailing (drawing of the eyes, mouth, hair) must be done at the end of the workflow.

Before the final detailing for the effect of realism, you can slightly blur the edges of the face contours (eyebrows, lips) with a damp brush. The same technique is good for drawing the hair to make it look more realistic. The background can also be worked out at the final stage of painting the portrait.

Advice! To make the background with a smooth transition (from dark to light), you should make a tone stretch. To do this, you need to dilute the paint well with water.

The artist Victoria Lemtyugova shared her artistic secrets on how to paint a portrait in watercolors with the readers of the Wings of Inspiration project.

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Instructions

Sketch it. If you are going to paint a portrait with watercolors, acrylics or gouache, you can draw a sketch with a simple pencil. Before working in color, the pencil lines will need to be lightened with an eraser. If you prefer tempera or oil paints, you will have to start the painting with underpainting. Make a sketch on a separate sheet, calculate the proportions of the person. Transfer these calculations to paper or canvas.

For a tempera portrait, do underpainting with a tempera shade, which is in all elements of the picture. The shade should be light so that later it can be enhanced or overlapped. For underpainting, it will be more convenient to do it with acrylic paints. Add guidelines for the basic shapes and apply a drop shadow.

The way you work in color depends on the paint you choose. If it is watercolor, diluted acrylic or gouache, you need to paint over the drawing with wide fills. Start with areas of your body that are not covered by clothing. Determine the lightest shade that is visible on the skin. Mix the same in the palette. Try to mix in just enough paint right away so you can paint without having to re-match the color combination.

Then create a shade of eyeshadow on the skin. Use a wide brush to spread the first color over the drawing. When it dries a little, apply shadow spots. Fill the person's clothes in the same way. After that, paint the face using smaller brushes. Do not draw the face to the end, just apply the main shade and partial shade on the cheeks, temples, chin, next to the bridge of the nose.

Take thin brushes and paint all penumbra and your own shadows on the body and head of the person. In this case, it is important not only to convey the shape of the body, but also to take into account the change in shades of both clothing and skin. They affect the color of each other, so on a red shirt, for example, in the shadows, the blue of the trousers will be noticeable. And on the face there will be a warm reddish reflex from the shirt.

To make the drawing look vivid, do not forget about the glare. They do not always appear on the skin, but an unpainted section of white paper must be left on the hair and eyes.

When working with tempera, you will not have to create large fills, but work "from a piece". That is, with small strokes, completely draw one area and only after that move on to the next. If you are painting a person with oil paints, pay attention to the degree of transparency of the shades that you are going to mix. This information is on the paint packaging. This is especially important when choosing skin color - if you mix transparent paint with opaque, the color will turn out to be heavy, unnatural.

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Typically, ordinary photography does not recognize tints and complex color combinations. Most often, the tone in photography is the same foreground and background, there is no aerial perspective, which is especially appreciated in painting. An oil portrait conveys the personality of a person, in the picture you can depict objects that will serve as a hint about the profession and hobbies of the person being portrayed.

Taking a good picture of a portrait can be more difficult than painting it with paints. This is due to the fact that the camera changes the color and coloring of the portrait depending on the lighting. A photograph cannot convey the same colors and tones that are in a portrait. In addition, the camera distorts the contour of the face and in some places the sharpness. All this leads to the fact that the photo does not at all look like a real portrait. It is very difficult for a customer to explain this effect, because a person has never encountered this problem. Most often, the customer trusts the photograph, and not the words of the artist. That is why it is more expedient to show the portrait "live", and not in the photo. Showing a portrait can be compared to measuring a dress or suit. Until you try it on, you don't know if the suit fits or not. It's the same with a portrait - until you see it live, you don't understand whether a person is similar or not. The portrait and paintings should only be viewed live!
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The portrait shows a girl in an autumn coat and beret with a scarf tied around her neck. Head in frontal position, shoulders in 3/4 view. The background is dark. The color palette is based on the ratio of cold and warm tones. The light is soft, diffused.

We determine the proportions of the height and width of the neck, placing the main masses of the portrait in sheet format. Linearly sketch out the front part, beret, scarf, shoulders. We draw the middle axis and determine the vertical ratio of the parts of the face. We outline the incision of the mouth, the base of the nose, the lines of the eyes and the armor.

We continue to work with a graphite pencil on the constructive construction of the details of the face, identify the volume of the scarf, and shape the hairstyle.

Refining the pencil drawing. We are working on the similarity with the model. We work out in detail the facial features, beret, folds of the scarf, outline the strands of hair.

We proceed to a picturesque solution. Lay the front part and coat with a transparent fill. We make a warm lining on the scarf, hair and beret.

Paint the background in a rich tone with a large flat brush. And then, when it just starts to dry up, create a texture on it with a clean wet brush.

Taking into account the nature of the lighting, we begin to reveal the shape on the front part with light semitones, layer by layer with glazes.

We actively work with color and tone. We prescribe beret, hair, coat and scarf, revealing their texture. We put emphasis on the collar of the sweater. Be sure to let each layer of paint dry.

We work on the face in detail, focusing on the eyes.

Finishing work on the portrait. We generalize the face with transparent halftones, with a damp brush we emphasize the structure of the beret and the fold of the scarf protruding to the foreground, modify the hair, glaze the background.