How to paint a portrait in Acrylics - Ben Affleck

hello welcome to my channel renzo here okay today i'm gonna paint uh ben afflecks with acrylics the colors i have are are titanium white medium yellow brilliant red ultramarine blue and ivory black my brushes i always use synthetic brushes i have round filbert i have this kind of diagonal brush i have a flat brush okay okay this is sketch hello cage hello monique hello way clevy sorry if i mispronounce the name okay i have a glass of water here and i have this to spray water on my paintings gonna mix blue red and yellow yes i want to mix brown but neutral brown okay it's enough for drawing just a minute okay let's see the top and the bottom of the head where it's gonna be the top okay here with my canvas okay and the head is gonna be here i mean imagine that get the you can put the the head in inside of a rectangular chain in this way you can calculate where it's going to be your head let's see here maybe a little bit to the right let me see the space that i have for mixing yeah i think that's gonna be okay okay now when i have the top of the head and the bottom of the head the eyes you know are in the middle okay don't count here just imagine that you don't see here okay now the center line now another line for the brows and once we have the brows the nose is going to be in the middle from the brows to the chin the nose in the middle okay don't think about anything more it's just simple proportions is the canon let's let's see the overall shape okay i have the overall shape of the face i have this line for the eyes the nose around here and the mouth here to find the position of the mouth do the same split this in half and this is going to be the bottom of the bottom lip that means on top of this line you put the mouth not the middle of the mouth with the whole mouth okay okay this is a basic structure let's say another thing that usually happens on the face this is a 45 degree angle here in the middle of these lines the curls where these two lines cross you can trace from here a 45 degree angle and usually this point here that's going to be the corner of this eye this is not perfect but at least it's gonna give you an idea to have the right proportions and from here of course we need to move that a little bit up a little bit down to the left to the right and of course i use our observation okay now let's paint with this i think that's enough i cannot do this thing uh about the 45 degree angle for this eye because because of the position this 45 degree angle just works when the face is enough and a front view on and within this trick review usually works in one side of the face the side that we see most of the face okay let's paint let's mix an orange okay and let's knock down this orange with white and blue let's see it's just too yellowy too orangey yeah that's not gonna work for the skin color mhm i'm gonna add more red more white and blue sometimes i use black because it's just faster to bring down any color with gray which is just white and black sometimes i use blue it's up to you i mean i just if you choose to use black just be careful because black is just a strong color and doesn't affect any color really fast and squinting down my eyes and trying to see just uh the lid area and the shadow light and shadow just that trying to represent just right now two colors two values no more okay antonio hello dania lo anna i need my palette knife right now i'm just using the acrylic paint and not even using water now at the beginning i prefer to establish this the thickness here because later i'm going to use more thin paint to go to make the corrections and i want this to get dry because when the acrylic is thick it takes a little bit of time to dry it doesn't dry that fast i mean i'm working with this uh brand riffs you can find a link in the description box to a simple set of six colors that you can buy from amazon okay more white more red at the beginning i just uh not so worried worried about to match the exact color okay i have enough time to correct this add more paint more paint and change this color hello if i'm spraying water on my brush just like this just to keep it wet because i'm gonna use another brush for this shadow we're running out of white okay let's paint the shadow now when i do this i consider this drawing tool because i'm trying to copy the shape of the shadow you're gonna soften this okay let me see one eyes here the other eye is here nose mouth chin okay i'm trying to keep the same proportions i mean the basic proportions and the canon a little bit of water let's see the beard okay i need to uh i need a greenish color for the beer not more yellow blue and yellow okay now the hair a little bit of red and black to mix a dark brown this is too dark i need more yellow and red okay i do this step back i think i have the overall shape right i can see that the shape of the face is it's pretty similar to the photo the the width and the high yep and the proportions i think that's okay too maybe the nose is a little bit larger i should reduce the nose a little bit i don't know yet i mean i just need to paint more okay uh okay what java oh yes there's a link in the amazon cases it's a little bit easier to work than oil to be honest it's kind of uh no i mean i think is both materials have pros and cons and no i mean you know i keep saying that what i love about acrylics is uh i mean it's not like we we're gonna just love one little thing about in uh or oil or acrylics but i loved that something that um it's kind of difficult to laugh about acrylics it's the dry time because you know uh but this is happening because i got used to working this way i'm pretty sure that as soon as i try some medium die slow down the process of the drying time process maybe i'm not going to like anymore just that that release to dry too fast but right now i count on that i count on the drive time it's the same then with oils i count on this lower dry time if you uh give me oils that dries 20 minutes i mean i don't count on that that's gonna be so difficult for me and if you give me acrylics the dry that dries in a couple of days that's gonna be that's gonna be the same for me because i mean i don't expect that and it's just that i mean we kind of get used to something and we uh we have like a different mindset every time that we work with oil paints every time that we work with acrylics and if somebody just changed me that pretty sure i'm gonna have problems to adapt myself to the material that might not take me a little bit and that's why i don't use anything to slow down the dry time process yeah it's just that uh the the brand of this acrylics is uh riffs there is a link in the description box it's not these are cheap again it's not the cheapest one that you're gonna find but definitely the link is uh is like a set of six colors the colors i use i think it's a good difference in and right i don't remember uh for i think it's thirty dollars i think check out the link i think this is really good it's better to use good acrylics for the beginners so i have a question for animal um i think it all depends on the personal bucket the personality i mean i have seen i remember i had a student that he started to paint and he was just okay i want to buy the best of the best and i said you can afford it that's okay and he did it and usually a student usually as a student used to buy the cheapest thing that i could find but i mean you gotta understand that the cheapest materials are not gonna work i mean that's not a good option i it's better to buy something that's not not too expensive not too cheap i think that's the best option so you try to paint jay luke oh wow that's going to be my next painting hello maggie hello manuel okay i'm going to try to make some details on the eyes here you know you see if you see the eyes i mean you don't see too much but that's what i want right now because for me uh right now this is like a sculpture okay and if i screen down my eyes watching the photo uh midnight is i don't see details when i was going down my eyes and that's exactly what i have here no details and that's enough to to to see the position of the eyes the nose and the mouth that's what i want right now and at the same time you know that we sometimes choose to paint a lot of details and sometimes we choose just to paint a more painterly a more painterly approach that means that more like say bold brush strokes without details and for both things it just works to see the paint and the image like a sculpture then start working the form this is something i keep forgetting i'm going to do this to my brush just brush for spray butter i don't want them to dry i don't want to clean them uh because i don't know maybe i'm going to use it this is the brush for this color still wet you see i can use it to retouch things to remember that acrylics dries a little bit darker i don't know if you can see the difference let me show you the difference you see here this is the same brush this color i add this this brush stroke it looks a little bit lighter than around yeah but it's not a little bit later it's just that it's wet as soon as it's dry it's gonna be the same color unless of course i'm a mistake and i pick up a little bit of white here but no usually i mean that happens with acrylics it dries a little bit darker almost nothing i mean if you don't pay attention to that you're gonna be okay just painting yeah don't don't i mean don't let that thing get into you because you're gonna be like thinking oh my god it's gonna dry dark it's gonna dry dark i don't know what's this this color is right or not let's forget about that it's just we need to know this everything about the material but in this case uh ignore this it's better okay one way that i have for blending is just apply the paint and pick up a clean brush usually a round brush i wet the brush a little bit and i do this okay more than blending just to know that it's just like fading one layer on top of the other okay and then continue doing that sometimes when the painting is wet or i mean this is waiting this is with two values with i can blend just uh there like it was oil paint but since this is dry too fast for me just about let's say do this pick up a brush a wet brush and do this okay now don't over blend because acrylics i don't think that's gonna work with acrylics if i uh stay here yeah i mean i don't see the reason because it's gonna dry faster okay now you see that okay the color is now right i'm gonna change it you see two values light and shadow there is a lot of more values here highlight a little bit of shadows i'm gonna just i need to start painting those values at the same time i can change the color right now uh once i have established light and shadow i have a better idea about the volume or the two-dimensionality of the face and at the same time uh it's useful for me to compare the shape like something flat remember that it's always easier to compare shapes i can see that i have a mistake here i have to close this okay i need to i need more green okay that's blending there you know that don't leave any sharp edge edge because usually we leave uh sharp edges here on the hair that's just uh it's not okay okay it's gonna look flat okay let me see it looks kind of jelly-ish on my screen it doesn't look that yellowish here on the painting i think maybe it's about changing something here on the camera i think that's better okay stepping back checking out okay hello rose hello mikey hello anita hello pop hello ho ho son continue add more paint here uh i just want to add more texture and you know we can add always more paint to the lights there's a little bit of yellow here last time i remember i added some uh paint with palette knife something like that i was tempted just to leave it like that and at the end i just erase it it's kind of um i'd like it but at the same time i don't know if that's gonna be uh okay maybe it's too distracting maybe let's see if i tried that at the end let's see you know you know once you have the proportion right if you try to do anything you can put a lot of paint here i mean i know that this is a the light is here i mean i can do whatever i want in this area speaking about color because when it gets dry i can add a glaze and change that color i mean that happens with oil true true i mean it's not just about acrylics that's why we usually we see sometimes some brush strokes on the highlights that i love those precious trucks looks really good like add some some uh i don't know some like filling it's like the you can feel the the presence of the presence of the human being that just added that pressure stroke i don't know i'm just trying to explain something that maybe it's not possible to spring okay remember about ears usually the ear is the same size you can split the face in two portions remember one two three portions and this just the ear is the same size uh like it's from the brow to the nose it could be a little bit smaller a little bit a little bit bigger depends on the subject but usually it's really close um stepping back and squinting down my eyes i didn't see the proportion of his face which i think is really good okay everything is okay i'm going to wet this brush and use another brush okay i can use this one okay so do you see what's happening here is i'm kind of lifting up the paint i see the canvas okay i'm just going to add more paint here okay i need to let it to work there okay this is this this gives me an idea about adding more saturation to the shadow yeah make it more transparent i mean if i do that i have to do the same with all the shadows see if that works i need to step back it's just it's just too light right now too bright but it's not about putting orange all around the shadows i mean just some accents i have to keep some grayish color like here for example i have to go back and add a little bit of black white it's gray to gray down this now you work comfortable with black you can use it a lot when you paint a portrait to gray down any color it's just faster sometimes when you're trying to gray down an orange you end up with some kind of violet that means that you added too much red maybe to the mixture in that case a gray black and white is small it gives you just right away a more neutral color but at the same time i mean you can end up with really muddy colors if you don't control the mixture see if i have this orangey here definitely i need a more orange here that's the goes the good thing about acrylics i can do this and if i don't like it i can change it just really fast you know because it's going to get dry really fast i mean that would add something to the painting i'm trying something i mean with color but i don't even know if i'm gonna just keep this because i'm doing something simple i mean is every time that i try to add more color to a painting is think think about the light where is the light coming from or the reflected light coming from and you can use the reflected light and change the color of this reflected light let's say that here i have an orange reflected light and that's why i imagine that this light is hitting here hitting here hitting here it's hitting all the areas of the face that are facing this reflected light okay it's just like all the lid area is facing what or first or main light source you can change the temperature of this light too except you play with color you'll remember that color is light and you have to understand how light hits an object and spread around the object okay and for example uh if if i make this orange this area i need an even more bright orange why it's the same here why here the light is too bright and not here the same reason that's how lights hit an object and spread on the object and this reflected light is followed the same i cannot put orangey strong orange here strong orange here and strong orange here okay at some point i have to work on that and try to control the amount of uh color and see how it's gonna when in what areas is gonna work there those accents okay i'm gonna leave that to dry i'm gonna work on the lightness okay yeah we can do anything to the color but sometimes when the lightness is not there we sometimes feel like the work of the painting is not complete but you guys you gotta know that the likeness is maybe the last thing that you have to be worried too worried about that's gonna be difficult to get and what can we do i mean just try always trying and don't get discouraged if you don't get it just relax and try to enjoy the painting process i'm pretty sure you want but try if you don't want to paint alone you can join my patreon account and paint along with me with a nice a group of nice people there wow that's a nice commercial so i don't want to paint alone this eye is going to be really difficult to get um oh okay um let's see let's step back hello son hello nicola anita did you consider your paintings to be realistic hello barbara hello maggie oh to be realistic yes yeah i mean representing just a face yeah it's realistic maybe you mean uh something like a more like a photograph i mean that's different but releasing if even if i let's say add paint with a palette knife as soon as you see as you see a face that's realistic i'm just representing a face realistic is not always just about making really everything really soft or smooth out the brushes strokes not always about that let me see the ear here so there's a little bit of a reflected light here it's gonna be kind of difficult to get i think is here okay something is wrong here the width i can think that the width is no right i need to move this reflected light [Music] oh yeah not it because i'm going to leave it there but no i have to fix something here okay i add the brush stroke if we have another brush this width i blend a little bit okay you can continue doing i can continue doing this during the whole process right now that i have established light and shadow i can go like again here i change the brush and i blend okay let's see the highlight on the nose with the highlight on the nose light here okay let's blend i need to open this is a round brush but i need to open the hair a little bit like this it's kind of a combination between let's say uh end up being more like a filler brush okay and then i do this because a round brush is just too pointy and i'm not gonna be able to blend okay you try to do this just uh maybe you're gonna be doing this with your hands trying to get that shape okay there's the book hmm a little too far for to get from getting the likeness but it's been 50 minutes i have plenty of time i just keep checking always the proportions i mean the measurements on the face like from the brow to the nose the nose the chin and all of that okay and then just working on details most the making let's say details working on this set of values like here there's no this is not flat there's a little bit of shadow here a little bit of noise shadow all those things does that's for the likeness and that's what makes the face okay for example here now what just one thing i've i'm going to work for example here i gotta be sure that this color is knocked down i'm not gonna add a pure color or pure orange there why of course because i want this to create illusion that this is something that is round you're going to be thinking always about color theory if you add a pure color here it's gonna make this pop forward if you add a grayish color here it's gonna make this recede that's color theory that's not about painting a face okay know color theory you know color theory and you're gonna be able to add volume to anything you paint just by following those simple rules but the problem that uh with a face that is we have a lot of things to paint to deal with and we tend to forget that and sometimes we tend to use maybe the same mixture this make sure that is here we tend to add this color to the corner to the edge and at the end we have the forehead let's say flat and the idea of course is they uh to see that this is a bump we're not gonna get this bump if if the color here is maybe too bright it's too saturated okay hello santos say michael hello michael how are you hello sudip now this is a knockdown color yeah i mean this is a grayish color that i said that i'm using just following that color theory theory rule and i can change now to a more saturated color here it's too dark okay and of course the color for the nose i can even saturate that a little bit more even that this light here i need to find a way to work on the light and make the nose pop forward for example here if you want the nose to pop forward what do you do speaking about color you have to it's not just about working the nose it's about working the colors around the nose what would you do with those colors you're gonna grade down those colors it's just that remember it's just a scholar theory you're not gonna find that if you try to look like color theory for for a portrait no it's color theory theory is color theory for everything painting a portrait and i'm escaped still life for everything let's see the difficult thing about his face that's gonna be of course trying to capture the he has some kind of sadness on the face i don't know i mean that's what i think um that's my dog stepping back hello linda i was looking at your other videos thank you hello gilbert i'm gonna have a lot of work in this eye okay i need to work on the shadow here and this on the brow that's too orangey i need more blue oh my god i forget to spray water pink um spending too much time here but i uh you know i just want to get this eye right since this the other eye is using shadow here i'm not going to work that much i'm i mean i'm going to spend some time because it's kind of difficult because i don't see that much but definitely it's it's more about get this height right and expression that's the difficult thing okay and not getting that anyway i mean it's just about working more here okay let's move to the nose i paint and i soften the paint with this brush is wet okay i need a new brush this is the set of brushes i'm using i i had like six of this now i have like two i think uh you know my daughter she is working on illustrations and you know that she's sometimes she she loves these brushes yeah this brushes are just amazing i mean they're cheap and they work perfectly i didn't put the link in the description box but i will but the brand is really easy to to to see oh it says oh it says that's the problem with this it says here it says and here it says uh vandic it's the same brush okay i'm gonna try to look for the link okay i promise i have to add a little bit of green for this color this brush is wet i mean i dip the brush in butter i do this okay or sometimes i just squeeze out of the water and then i use it i need to step back okay hmm let's see let's see some mistakes okay the eyes just the brown the eye the nose so many things to deal with okay the nose here blend a little bit now the brow here paint and use this brush to soften the brush stroke okay mm-hmm this is just like a glaze to darken the lower eyelid okay let's see the reflected light on the nose because the shape of the nose is not right it's too late okay okay hello gilbert i want to try and try to figure out the lighting of this photograph oh yes i mean the light is from the left it's a little bit of a reflected light a little bit i mean there's always reflected light so there's more or less intense park gaming tell me more about yourself i just love painting but due to lack of resources i can't do anymore i mean there are materials that are really really cheap and one way to keep up is always close to painting and clothes is drawing for drawing we don't need too much yeah i mean uh i live in peru you know in south america uh when i was another student for me everything it was about just the cheapest things that i could find i could buy i mean that was for everybody for my friends you know we love to earn but sometimes we have to just to i mean we cannot spend too much money on money on materials because art materials are expensive and when i was in my what i get i started to study in the school of art when i was my i think 18 18 years old was too young and it was to where john and get the money the only way it was just trying to save as much as possible on our materials this is the cheapest one and you know i don't even remember the brands but definitely they were really cheap and for drawing i remember for a couple of years i just i had just one i worked with just one pencil it's graphite even i i think i even have one here one here no i don't have it is uh what we it's kind of um really soft graphite but what you see looks like a charcoal pencil but it's not charcoal it's graphite it looks like a charcoal person i mean the lid is thick it's nothing like a regular graphite pencil okay but that's really soft and that was it for me it's just that if i want to make something really soft it was just pressure less if i want something dark pressure more and that's a good training i mean because yeah and i remember i mean i remember that some of my a few of my friends maybe they had like because i mean it was the same situation for all of us i'm not saying that it was just for me it's like 60 of our maybe 80 of our students we uh have to deal with that we deal we did with that at that time and right now it's the same i mean when i was a teacher for a year about three three years ago in the school of art it's the same i remember i i loved i loved paint with my students i love to draw with them draw along with them and paint with them and i remember once one of my students told me yeah i mean you get those colors your painting is looking okay uh because i'm using a different paint we don't have that that's too expensive for me he told me to use i mean i don't i i i don't use a spacey brand but it was expensive for him and i said okay if i want to show something like how to do something i have to we all have to be in the same level yeah and then i started to use the the paint the cheapest paint it was kind of okay but you can tell the sun there are some differences well that was a really amazing experience because you know it was just like going back on time for me was like that for every one of my friends it's like everywhere i mean the school of art here there are here in lima three they say three or four school of arts one is they just find art is you don't pay anything you just get into the schools or pay one fee for just a whole year really cheap and then you have a private school from the university where you pay more obviously and if you don't have enough money you're gonna get i mean obviously if you love art you're gonna get to the national school of art but that's where i i have studied for six long beautiful years see what i'm doing i'm adding paint and then with the other brush i soften the paint and we have to go back and forth because it's about just trying to get the right values for example here's a little bit darker this maybe because i want to do this dark i'm going to make it maybe too dark and i have to go back in at a lighter color and maybe it's going to be too light again and i have to add more paint again again and again and again that's just repetition repetition okay gaming is asking me is necessary to join art school or it can be done by by itself nowadays i mean you can learn to paint by just watching youtube videos see you on nick okay and yeah i mean somebody saying if this is hard yeah this is hard for real i'm struggling here i mean it's never that fun i mean maybe sometimes i mean it's never fun painting a face trying to get it like this there is always some difficulty on this always do you think i'm having fun no the fun is at the end when i see the face that is getting close close to what i want and i say oh my god this okay now i feel that it worth all the effort but in the process it's not it's not funny the process is just a challenge or every time every time i've been painting this for 20 30 years portraits and every time it's the same every time is a challenge now sometimes there are like uh let's say faces that looks like they're kind of easier to paint yeah that happens and sometimes there are just portraits that i don't know what happened that it looks like i cannot get the right i have the proportions right i have everything right and something is missing and i don't know what it is and since uh i mean my experience i don't stress i don't try to stress out too much myself with this i don't even think about that i finish up and then i move to the next painting and that's it for me this is still wait this is what i hate about uh when i add thick acrylics it didn't dry i mean it means like this for look at that for i don't know you can see it's a little bit wet from the last hour i did apply this version strokes at the really beginning because i wanted to drive yeah at least for the next hour but it's been an hour and still wet okay i was saying that somebody asked me about studying school of art or not i mean nowadays definitely not i mean it's too much information out of there i mean youtube is just a lot of information a lot of free information and yeah it's just uh the only difference you know what is is that um the only difference is that we choose what we like that's good and bad at the same time why because an er and as an early student i when i was an artist student of course i mean we study all the all the time we keep learning our whole life uh we don't choose what to paint sometimes we don't like what we paint we don't like the subject we think it's just a waste of time i mean but it's necessary to somebody just to tell us someday paint this draw this i mean you don't like it but it's gonna be good for your training and when we just choose to study by ourselves we don't do that we just tend to pick up what we like what we want to draw and paint and it's kind of weird skipping too many themes let's say themes or subjects that are going to be good for us it's like for example when i was in the school of art drawing usually the teacher used to pick up a models a model that was fat and then next week amaru diet was muscular and then this week a really thin moral a really thin slim model that we can see just the bones through the skin and yeah you know sometimes we don't do that when we choose ourselves what to paint or what to draw we always choose the beautiful images because that's what we want that's what inspired us and it's not good always it's like i remember so many oh i have to add one once i remember uh one student he was in i think he was maybe 18 years old he was in the school of art he was oh my god i mean uh i i i draw really good and now i'm drawing boxes and cylinders yeah i don't think that's that's really boring i mean and you know in the school of art usually withdraw and paint that for one year just boxes spheres cylinders guns and at the beginning for at least three months is just about black and white with oil paint black and white at the same time with drawing in drawing we draw the same it was the same when i was a student it was the same when i was a teacher three three years ago and what can i say it's boring yeah it's boring what is what is what we need it's what the students need imagine yourself like a self-taught student maybe you're gonna say okay well maybe this guy is right i'm gonna pick up i wanna draw a sphere with a cube today i'm pretty sure you you're not going to repeat that tomorrow or in a week you're going to say okay that's enough but let me tell you in a school of art maybe you're going to draw or paint a cube a sphere with a different positions with different lighting of course maybe for three months daily okay now you all tell me what is the difference between being self-taught and studying the school of art is that and at the same time it's the training school of art is just like going to a gym to work up to work out yeah why because i know we stayed there drawing and painting like daily for four or five hours it's a lot that's why we can compensate that by drawing at home like at least 20 minutes a day an hour a day or painting it's just different it's just like a school of art it's just like a preparation for a competition daily daily daily uh pakistan mean recipes try to draw indian celebrity painting many youtubers they don't have one percent of your skin and they have millions of subscribers there is a vast audience in india yeah well i will well uh i'm drawing i'm painting on paper on canvas cotton canvas hello dennis what meaning i love the most oil of acrylics okay i've been asking this question like so many times i i mean oh no i mean i think i love both i love i love the difference between one and the other right now i'm starting with this portrait and if i was if let's say that if i was painting with oil paint i will i will struggle with this painting too and you know that's mature the material doesn't make a difference when we have problems with the likeness proportion of with that i'm repeating this for the i think just for the last hour i i paint and with the other brush i'm just softening the paint just like this i add paint i'm not softening the paint with the other brush okay just the only thing that i hate uh about i gotta say mostly maybe about acrylics that sometimes sometimes i want them to drive fast normal and i have to deal with some some areas that they don't try i don't like that i i just want to and i mean i'm experiencing that in some areas because i i paint and i'm blend and when i try to blend it's kind of lifting up the paint from that area i have to be really soft right now another thing that i'm working with just with thin paint because you know i added more paint at the beginning and now it's kind of easier just to work with fuel paint and blend i add the paint and i blend okay okay here's gonna be a problem i don't see anything speaking about the school of art and about being self-taught sometimes at the same time another thing that happens that is about not the subject that we paint is about the materials we use and for example i experience working with i don't i don't know the name but let's let's say wet charcoal which is pretty difficult okay i did that maybe a couple of times three times i didn't try it again for the next 20 years and there are so many things that we try and we don't use anymore but that's important because we experience the material we learn from that for that experience okay and i think a couple of times i i drew drew with coffee the same yeah that's something that i don't do now i don't even think about doing that now maybe i will just because uh uh to experience that again but definitely something that i don't know maybe just for trying for see what happens but you know uh those little things are just things that uh school of art make us experience and to compensate that we have to try to look for different materials there is a channel oh remember there is a channel that i usually i saw so often and there is a teacher that she tries different materials all the time maybe that's kind of the the thing that's really close to a real school of art is the name is i think is our prof like like our professor professor initial our prof really good i mean uh it's not about making that i mean if you see the channel there's no you don't want to see a complete painting or drawing or maybe you do i mean i haven't checked out the whole channel but definitely i mean you're gonna see how they use different materials that's really good i want to do the same to know that my son is the one that he pushed me to i mean not just him but he was more like a dad i mean do this do this why don't you draw this guy i want to paint this this guy why don't you put more videos on youtube channel i mean you know because i had the channel and i didn't have too much too many videos when he was okay you have to have to do this that and now he's telling me at the time hey uh why don't you make a sculpture did you do this culture in the school of rds i i did for how so long for for a year i think okay doing the sculpture and i say okay okay i'm gonna bite uh the what's the name clay clay and he's like yeah dude oh my god i mean it's kind of difficult but i'm going to try it um let me see this is going to be difficult okay a little bit more to the right yeah i think that's okay the reflected light here i think that's okay now this shadow here is not okay you see the shape of this brush is it's just like a for a makeup brush it's a brown brush but it works perfectly for for blending okay um stepping back okay you know that the most important for me i mean the likeness of course and this uh kind of sadness that he has on the here look his look sorry hello uh with tables representing hello brandon hello fun [Music] by saying that that would be a great sculpture my knowledge of anatomy hello david mcdonald gilbert listen oh that's this is nice i think that's like a good joke okay okay let's continue working on the eyes specifically this eye well it's too much water can you sing a lot of water okay let's imagine that i'm glazing looks like oil paint yeah just because of this i mean i added some thick brush strokes at the beginning um i add the brush stroke and i blend and i repeat again okay i blend you know it's more like like fading more than blending okay whatever um okay i think i'm getting close next minute i think oh my god i'm just too far away no further like this next minute oh my god i'm really good next minute unsuck that's normal yeah i need to add more change the thickness of the brow and work on the highlights so i think i'm getting close that was funny gilbert is saying gabriel gilbert said if someone is interested google google me i paint a little bit too okay i'm going to do that gilbert let's start are you painting my jig is asking me how you're painting remembering to say portrait with thick pastel layer layers no no i haven't but i will try jswg i googled myself in a teenage sailor in australia okay okay let's continue painting i'm gonna add more light to the uh forehead i was right there i was i mean i did this highlight uh at some point i don't know what happened uh when i worked this when i worked and this shadow i just end up darkening this i have to light up this again okay let me put some wrinkles now i'm just in really really transparent paint i'm just going to do this okay let me see i'm going to just copy the the background this is light here and dark here okay hmm okay i'm gonna solve this h me stay back okay i think it's okay oh is okay i need to paint the ear so many things yet is the blob next to him going to be jennifer lopez sorry that i don't speaking too much i just got tired why you want to ask me anything just you know you're free to comment and if you like my video you can press the like button i think i have painted this eye maybe too big i have to think about that i'm going to reduce it from here and i need to make uh uh i need to make the this i brow grow too much so thank you bro adding just an orange reflected light at some point on the video i wanted to add a really strong reflected light i'm still thinking of that but i don't know i just gotta think if it's gonna be okay to this really warm reflected light mm-hmm so i'm mixing this color just with gray because i just want this just knock down the color there i don't care about this too much i don't want to spend too much time here black red touch yellow more red okay uh word buzz saying can you show us your studio one day if you don't mind yeah yeah where of course one day i don't know let's see i have to just prepare move my things to show you when they wear our paint i mean it's different the where i paint like a regular portrait and where i paint for [Music] uh youtube right now i had a really small small room i picked up this room because i wanted to try to avoid all the noise on the street and all of that and and at the end like already i was let's say successful about doing that but the problem is that it's kind of difficult to be here kind of everything glows it's just i don't know you know i work with oil paints acrylics not a problem but with oil paints smear and all of that i have to open uh a door here a little bit i don't like this color it kind of looks like kind of yellowish and you know i mean that's what you can hear you know you can hear noises from the street from my neighbor to my right to my left and uh this is the roon and this is the last room at the home at the just at the bottom of the house okay i don't like this color let me ruin this area i'm gonna clean all this okay i need to prepare more paint again gray prefer mix everything gray and go on top of this dark grey and then i go again with skin color now uh and then i have another space another room for where i paint bigger portraits but to be honest i kind of just stay i end up being here in this small room like the whole day at the end uh to make the livestream i need a good computer you know and with a good internet connection and at the end i'm here where is my very computer i have another computer upstairs it's not as good as this one and i have another computer that i don't use anymore and nobody wants to use it because i mean you know my son he preferred to just uh the one that he considered the best for to play because he just loves to play you know ps4 i don't know i mean all those games at the end i'm here lot of time and then i have another small small space of my dad's i don't go there like i know like here i have there a little bit of paint some brushes paints canvases and there you know what because they they're uh it's really in a quiet place i don't listen to anyone and even i have a room a room there when i close the door i don't listen anything from the house nothing and i just to go there to record some videos but you know i mean the problem is is that i mean that place is perfect but i cannot stay there like a couple of hours it's not good for my health it would be in a closed space and right now if i close the door here pretty sure you're not gonna hear my any noise but definitely i mean for me i just start to smell uh to smell all the dropping time all the things that i have here the only thing i don't like about when i painting this like the background i have to be a little bit fast because i don't like sharp edges you know sharp edges really really uh aren't going to damage all the volume that you you've been building up a heart age is just going to you know heart age always drive the tension and usually flatten any area okay i'll try it but i have a really hard age here let's see hmm i'm going to darken the whole ear just a little bit okay it's too colorful i don't when something is you know it's colorful usually it come forward pop forward i don't want that i need to add a little bit of gray i mean i don't want a gray ear but definitely i don't want this to pop forward just careful that neutralize the ear to make it recede and at the same time i mean i'll end up with a grayish here because that's not going to work let's see i didn't really transparent okay i think that works a little bit but not perfect i need to go back here and work okay let me stay back check out i think i think it's okay i'm going to darken this area more because i don't i don't want to work there and thus that would be just too much i mean these areas are just particular particularly difficult really difficult it's more about creating the illusion that there's a night there just that i mean we don't we don't we don't need to make details you know the basic example of this is uh are our rembrandt's painting you know rubber is a master of creating illusion of that he had painted an eye in darkness and when you get close to the painting there's nothing there it's a little bit of shadow and that's enough to make us believe that there is kind of sometimes even a detailed eye if you choose black remember black is like a dark blue you add yellow you're gonna have a dark green you have just red you can end up with kind of a purple color a violet a violish color okay what about the orange just like that i want it too hot i don't think i won't do that anymore now uh i want to work uh with what i call dry brush that means i'm not gonna use too much paint i'm gonna use a dry brush and that's gonna be something really close to scumbling in oil paint gilbert is telling me his upper lip might be a little thinner and darker i'm not sure okay thank you gibraltar why do people hate russian dolls uh thank you so mitra okay let's see my brush is dry i try to dry out this as much as possible and i pick up a little bit of paint i'm not going to add too much water nothing nothing nothing water because with this and i do this okay this is what is called scrambling in oil paint use that i have one wrinkle here two three wrinkles okay that's enough this way i can darken or change the color a little bit without adding too much paint you can think about this like a dry glaze i mean the glaze is always wet and transparent that's the idea but this is dry but at the same time it has some transparency maybe because it's just almost no paint the only problem with this if you don't like texture is that you're gonna see some texture when you a texture because of the tooth of the canvas i love this you know what it looks like more more like an oil paint than the felix i love that for example here i think they should be a little bit darker just here i can use this but just careful really careful because you know the acrylic stripe is a little bit darker and then they can go like this almost nothing okay enough yeah the name is you will not want to knock down any highlight uh let's say i'm gonna make this darker i'll repeat again darker color okay this is dark well i think it was too much if i mean you paint something too dark you have to go again over that and change it for example i did the same here i think i just added too much shadow in this area i go this color and i paint here almost not in this way you can retouch anything okay in fact i'm thinking one of these days i'm going to paint a complete portrait just using this because i said before that i had a teacher that he painted his own creations just using dry brush i mean it takes maybe a lot of time definitely maybe i'm gonna do maybe two a couple of live streams to finish up a painting but i think it's really really good to try to do that i mean i always i loved his my teachers my teacher payton i never tried because it was i thought it was just i love alla prima because i love to paint faster okay and that process is just takes a lot of time i'm not saying that because i love the prime minister paint with a longer process of technique definitely we will i mean we need to always practice different techniques but you want to paint as rainbow and painted definitely that's a really long a long time i mean you're going to spend at least more than a month trying to painting trying to emulate rembrandt's paintings it depends on unless you're trying just to let's say make a quick study of there's two ways to to to paint let's say a study remember one way that would be follow his process i know i mean usually a painter process change with time but let's say we follow his process from the beginning to the end and the other way to study is just try to copy the painting just the last layer you know that what we see on the painting are just the last brush strokes of a painter the first strokes just we don't see them i mean they are being covered by it more paint and in order to study a painting we have to go let's say go deep to try to see all those initial versus strokes try to understand the process definitely for youtube the best way to do is just to make a study of the surface i mean copy what we see do that in the painting instead of going and try to study the full process okay what is anything okay we need to look for anything that we can fix with this for example i see that i need to okay i'm not using any water i'm trying to use as not too much paint almost nothing this is a scumbling okay i see that this is a little bit darker i go like this this is for the end i always do this because i don't want to continue adding more more and more paint in this just simple way to change values and color at the end and you can use this for everything i mean you want to add more red here okay i'm mixing orange here a touch of orange some touches just touches okay you know that if we add some saturation on the shadows we create some transparency there that's something that sometimes we want that sometimes we don't you can continue doing this like adding more and more of this let's say glazing remember that we need a little bit of red on the cheeks a little bit of red on the nose for example for the mouth the upper lip is on red on the picture on the photograph i see a lot of red on the upper lip maybe that's too much for a painting okay and you can push this even more and more imagine that you add more red more red but at some point we need to stop but you can just push this and see what happens and then using this this the same technique the dry brush you can just darken this again or gray down this again instead of going on the process of painting this wet and trying to deal with the difficulty of blending acrylics okay what is sunny squinting down my eyes checking out everywhere or here a little bit darker yep oh a little bit darker up here [Music] yeah there's a reflecting light here that you can take advantage in that maybe blue or any color you want i'm not gonna do that now because i just tire it i think that's it it's a nice exercise a good practice okay i'm gonna change the background because i don't like this kind of yellowish background i prefer green like the picture my thing is pretty neutral and just with that background i can see clearly the skin colors mix in black and white i'm running out of white that means my next acrylic painting that's gonna be maybe in a week because i got i gotta go to the store to buy more more white so to brush it's just black and white since i'm not going to work on details at least i'm going to try to make some crease on atmosphere here hey what do you think i'm painting on an easel hello mary how are you yeah this acrylics it takes it doesn't dry that fast i still feel that i should produce the size of the eye i think it's just true also sure not completely sure but i feel this i don't know something is not it's not there about his face maybe more beer yeah maybe more weird let's see okay what else okay time to eat here i gotta go hmm [Music] okay when it's sweaty for this i should work a little bit more on the year but you know i don't want i'm just tired just a little thing okay that's it for today doesn't he look like a ryan rhinos oh it's clear it's flat yeah thank you kepler we're gonna make this a little bit darker yeah yeah oh my god i didn't okay that's it for today okay i just want you to see the texture you know this is because i added more thick acrylic acrylic paint at the beginning and i love that i mean it wasn't my it wasn't my intention that it looks like i mean right now i think it looks like a more like an oil paint it wasn't my intention and it just i wanted some uh sometimes because with acrylics sometimes we can work really thin you know because we add water is and that's why i wanted to add if you check out my channel i have a couple of paintings with acrylics where i don't use too much paint it's really thin layers the effect is different in small smooth out i knock down the light my camera a little bit okay thank you so much you all for being here hope you like you like the video hope you like it thank you so much see you next time see you tomorrow tomorrow gonna paint with oils let's see let's see what what to paint okay bye take care bye mary thank you bye linda bye and bye bye everybody thank you so much

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Published: Fri Sep 17 2021