Archive Monthly Archives: October 2022
How to Line up the Feature in a Portrait
Let me show you a common mistake many artists make (I have too) when it comes to painting or drawing portraits where the head is tilted.
In this critique of a student’s sketch, I’ll show you how to realign the features to match the angle of the face.
Do you want to have your painting critiqued? Or do you simply want to learn more about painting realistic acrylic portraits? Visit Realistic Acrylic Portrait School for free painting tips and tutorials, as well as paid online classes where you can get personalized painting instruction.
How to Line up the Features in a Portrait
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
Paint Realistic Acrylic Portrait Better by Correcting Values
You will learn the importance of contrast, and correct value.
Lastly how to adjust certain areas of your painting early on to achieve the realism you are looking for. Want a critique of your painting? Or just want to learn more about how to paint realistic acrylic portraits? Visit Realistic Acrylic Portrait School at RealisticAcrylic.com for free tips & tutorials, and paid online classes where you can receive customized painting instruction.
To learn more about how to paint realistic acrylic portraits better by correcting values, watch the free video tutorial
Paint Realistic Acrylic Portraits Better by correcting values
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
Easy & Inexpensive Palette for Acrylics
Are you tired of wasting acrylic paint on a palette that dries out too quickly?
Frustrated with the time it takes to scrape paint off your old palette and set up new colors? Let me show you an inexpensive way to set up a palette for acrylic painting that will save you time, and money, and help the environment too!
Watch my free tutorial below to learn more about the easy and inexpensive palette for acrylics.
Easy & Inexpensive Palette for Acrylics
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
One Simple Fix to Make Your Acrylic Portraits More Realistic
Something is off with this portrait. Can you spot it?
In this fifth video of the oval acrylic portraits series, I’ll show you how to correct that common mistake, and also how to paint wrinkles in clothing. Specifically, I’ll be working on the transitional tones between the darkest shadows and highlights.
Watch the free tutorial below to learn more about a simple fix to make your acrylic portraits more realistic.
Make Your Acrylic Portraits More Realistic
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
How Do you Paint Realistic Hair in Acrylic Portrait
How do you add shadows and give the illusion of wet, stringy hair?
Many artists struggle to paint hair that looks lifelike. In this video, I’ll show you, to use a size #6 round brush. This is the sixth video in our series of oval acrylic portraits. I’m painting in the acrylic glazing technique so it will take some time to build up the richness of color and depth. You can learn how to do this too! There will be more videos to follow.
Watch the free tutorial below to learn more about how you can paint realistic hair in an acrylic portrait.
How Do you Paint Realistic Hair in Acrylic Portrait
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
Techniques for Painting a Realistic Nose in Acrylic Portrait
How do you paint the nose in your acrylic portrait painting?
Do you know how to paint a nose? That’s the topic of this video. I’ll be working on the face, adding some nuances here and there, but primarily adding roundness and subtle tints to the nose. (starts at approx. 9 minutes in.) This is the seventh video in our series of oval acrylic portraits. I’m painting in the acrylic glazing technique so it will take some time to build up the richness of color and depth. You can learn how to do this too!
Watch the free video tutorial below to learn more about realistic nose painting techniques.
Painting Techniques for Painting a Realistic Nose in Acrylic Portrait
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- What are 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alters your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- How to Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
Read more: how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. It’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
2 Techniques to Paint Realistic Hair in Acrylic Portrait
What techniques do you use to paint hair that looks realistic?
Painting realistic-looking hair in your acrylic portrait doesn’t need to be hard.
Let me show you two techniques that you can use to paint hair that looks almost like you can touch it.
1. Paint specific value shapes within a larger area.
2. Paint specific value shapes within a smaller area.
Repeat these two techniques several times, until you build up a convincing illusion of hair. Watch the video to find out how you can do it, too! This is the eighth video in our series of oval acrylic portraits. I’m painting in the acrylic glazing technique, so it has been taking some time to build up the richness of color and depth. You can learn how to do this too!
Watch the free tutorial below to learn more about two techniques to paint realistic hair in an acrylic portrait.
2 Techniques to Paint Realistic Hair in Acrylic Portrait
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
How to Paint Clothing in Acrylic Portrait
Learn how to paint wrinkles with convincing light and shadow.
This is the ninth video in our series of oval acrylic portraits. I’m painting in the acrylic glazing technique so it has taken some time to build up the richness of color and depth. You can learn how to do this too!
Watch the free tutorial below to learn more about how to paint clothing in acrylic portraits.
How to Paint Clothing in Acrylic Portrait
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- How Photoshop alter your Photo
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!