Learn How to Paint WINTER TIGER with Acrylic - Paint and Sip - Animal Portrait Step by Step Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint and sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm going to be painting winter tiger and i'm going to be sipping on some orange tea today and maybe because of the color of his fur i don't know but if you enjoy this process i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you can find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for my materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and primed 16 by 20 inch canvas you're painting along you could certainly switch up the size but that's what i'll be using i'm going to be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white burnt umber which i will call brown mars black deep yellow and burnt sienna which i have a tendency to call rust so i'll call it one of those two things you can certainly switch up the colors but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a white piece of chalk that i'll use for some drawing and then i have three brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number 10 round synthetic brush and i have a number one round synthetic brush and i refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and of course you can switch those up as well if you'd like to if you're painting along with me you'll probably want to have a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying your brushes and down below this video i will be providing you with a couple of additional resources that you can find in the video description one of them is a link where you can purchase the same exact paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas to the same type of paint and brushes and all the good stuff in between so that's there there's also a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions down there for you as well and that's all we're going to need today all right so we're going to do for the first step is we're going to be painting the background i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm using are black brown and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to have a real neutral gray tone for the backdrop of this so the snow and the tiger really pop out and it makes it feel like it's a a wonderfully wintery day out there so i'm going to pre or i'm going to pre-mix myself a gray color um and then i'll do it pretty dark at the top and then we'll get it a little bit lighter as it comes down towards the bottom so i've magically pre-mixed the gray that i'm going for so you can see what i'm going for it's like a mid kind of warm tone so what i did was i separated out some of my brown because i want to use that later i'll use some of that on the tiger itself and i'm going to use the rest of my brown with a little bit of black i don't need a lot of black in order to turn this into a gray type of tone and then i'm going to add in my white a little bit at a time and what i do is then i'll just do so you can see it better i will spin this around so it turns into a medium gray and if it's not turning the way that i want like that's a little too dark i'll add a touch more white to it but i add the black and the white slowly i don't just scoop up a whole bunch of black and a whole bunch of white because they can very easily turn this a little bit too dark or too light this is a little bit too brown for me so i'm going to add a touch more black and a touch more white which means i'm adding more gray to the to the equation that's looking pretty good and then once you've got it in the color that you want what we're going to do is we're going to color the entire background maybe just a little more a little more gray in there so touch more black and a touch more white we're going to color the entire background with this color and as we get down towards the bottom of the canvas we'll be adding more white to it so i didn't wash my brush i didn't take get the paint off of it i'm just gonna start applying it to my canvas and if yours is a little bit more browner than mine or a little bit more grayer than mine it's okay it's all going to work out we just want ourselves a pretty neutral base for the backdrop we'll be adding some like sprays of snow coming up so we'll have opportunity to to tweak this color with the other elements that we're going to be putting into the painting and you might find that you want to do multiple layers for this background but for me i'm just going to do the one layer because i know what i have coming in the future steps with it being um with us adding the snow that's being kicked up by this tiger as it's running through this i don't know if it's a meadow or a forest or where he's running through but once i got this i would say a little bit past the halfway point i'm going to start introducing white to the equation so i picked up my gray plus some white so this is going to get it to go a little bit lighter as it goes down my canvas and i'll get it to go even lighter as it goes down towards the bottom bottom but i'm going to get this to blend in a little bit here so i tend to go back up into the previous section when i'm doing a on the fly blend like this and i'm going to again pick up my gray plus white about equal parts of both of those colors to get to get this to be a little bit lighter as it comes down the canvas and i'm just getting it to blend into the previous section but again if it doesn't blend perfectly don't worry about it because you've got a lot to do on top of this so it will definitely you'll be able to adjust any non-blended areas it doesn't again we're gonna cover it with snow so this is just our background and once you've got this all nice and done we are going to be utilizing our piece of chalk for the next step so you can just put your large brush away take out your chalk and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be drawing an outline of our tiger with our piece of chalk this step will be much easier for you if you make sure that your canvas is dry before you start this so this is that time where you get to you know have an extra long break if you'd like to or you can find some kind of fun fanning method to get it dry or you can do as i did and just whip out a blow dryer for it and you'll get it dry that way so how i'm going to go through this we're just going to be doing some basic shapes no fancy details or anything like that we just need some place to start our tiger from so i'm gonna be giving you some markers you can follow along that way or you can make it into a different kind of animal or a different shape or whatever tickles your fancy i'm gonna have mine a little bit off-center to the left and he's jumping through the snow so we're not going to have much for detail on his body but his head is going to be the the focal point so we're going to start with an oval round type of shape for the head so if you go about halfway left to right on the top of your canvas you're going to come down maybe about three three and a half inches and then over to the left maybe two or three inches so somewhere in this vicinity is where i'm going to start the top of my head the bottom of my head is going to be right about here so this is about halfway up or down my canvas so right about there so that will be the top and the bottom when i go to do this it's going to be an oval type of shape that will be a little bit flatter on the bottom and a little bit rounder on the top i'm going to give you the left and the right how far out to go so on this left side i'm going to bring it out to about in through here so this is maybe two inches from the center and then you can do the same thing over on the right hand side so i'm going to connect these but i need to make them rounded so i'm going to start up and through here and connect this to here i'll do the same thing from this one to this one and then when i go to do this one down in through here i'm going to bring my my oval out a little bit and almost flatten it down at the bottom so something like this it doesn't have to be super flat at the bottom but that'll give you a more natural kind of shape to the head if you do it that way i'm going to put a couple of little ears on here so if this is my center point i'm going to go maybe about an inch to the right and then another inch down the head and then i'm going to connect these with kind of a little cat ear like that about an inch to the left here whoops lost my little piece of chalk another inch down somewhere in through here and then i just kind of connect these with a little cat ear type of shape and then for the bottom what we're going to be doing is the front legs are just kind of jumping through the um through the snow so i'm going to make a couple of markers one of them is going to be right about here and then the other one will be maybe a little bit lower coming down the head on this side something like that i'm going to come down from the center of the head to about here so this is maybe about two two and a half inches away from the bottom of my canvas that's going to be the lowest point on the right paw or on either of them um as far as they go down i'm going to connect here to here with a big arcing line it's going to go out a little bit farther than the body so something like this will get me to that from here i'm just going to continue this marker in a circular or curved type of line to something like that so this should be about halfway between the head and the bottom of the arm then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come up this leg maybe about a half of an inch to an inch something like that and i'm going to do a similar motion over here this is kind of like the elbow i guess if there was may i don't know it's probably not the right terminology but where the arm kind of bends i'm going to make this pointed part a little bit higher on this left arm so maybe right about here is where i'm going to poke it out the most so i'm going to take this and kind of bring it out to here and then i'll just kind of curve it along like this again it doesn't have to be perfect but this will give you a good starting point and then i'll do another little curve for this leg coming up in through here and that's all i'm going to be doing for my outline for my tiger you can certainly bend yours or make any little adjustments if you want to but we're going to be using our medium brush for the actually no we'll use the large brush for the next step so you can put your chalk away take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to paint the base coat for our tiger i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are rust and black and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to put a real dark area in through here with both of those colors the rust and the black i'll do the same thing inside my ears and then i'm going to color the rest of it with rust which will give us a great base color for the tiger so i'm going to put rust with just a tiny bit of black paint on my brush not a lot and this area in through here i'm just going to paint in with both of the colors i'm going to bring it right down into this little crevice you don't really need to do any fancy brush stroke at this point but i know that because i'm painting an animal with short fur that i can utilize the tip of my brush to just kind of give myself a little bit of texture with with every brush stroke so i take advantage of it my ears are going to come into this um shape that we made for the head a little bit so they're going to look like they're inside or they're in front this part will look like the top of the head so i'm going to bring this black and rust inside that head a little bit and just bring it up into those ears i'm leaving the um the exterior outline of the ear so i can add a lighter color in a minute but this is just going to get me started like that then without washing my brush i'm just going to pick up rust paint so i might have a little bit of remnants of the black on my brush but i'm okay with that i'm going to for the head i'm going to be dotting the paint on here in like a stippling type of technique for the majority of the head except for when i get towards the edges so right in through here i'm just dotting it you can go right up to those areas where you had the darker part for the ear you can cover up your um your chalk outline i'm actually going to bring it right along the edge of the ear as well and i'm just using kind of the corner of my brush just to give myself a little bit of a base color for these ears just reloading with a little bit more of my rust make sure i've got that on there and if your ears grow or you know any area of the animal takes on a little bit different of a shape during this process it's okay you'll be able to you know change it into whatever you want during the during the future steps and again just kind of tapping this in here as i get towards the edges i am going to flip or kind of pull the brush out just a little bit so i have ruffled edges as it's meeting that chalk so it's not a straight straight line as i go down down the sides of the face we'll be adding more fluffy kind of fur along the edges as we as we build the details to it but just as i'm starting the process just want to make sure that i've got that in there and where it meets this dark area at the bottom you can just tap it so they so they kind of meet one another but you don't want to over blend it so you lose your information in through there and then when i get to the arms that i'm going to use a similar brush stroke to what i did in through here so i will be utilizing just this kind of tapping type of motion even though it is a um one solid color that we're using utilizing you may get the evidence of the of the fur direction because you'll have lighter spots and darker spots so whenever i am doing animals it whenever i have the opportunity to put in the direction of the brush of the fur i'll i'll take advantage of it and go ahead and do that where these two meet here i'll probably save a little bit of my chalk showing so that way i don't lose the information as to where it is and if you still have some chalk over on your edges don't worry about it like i said we got many more steps to go that'll help to to cover up all that information just going slow so i don't make him grow too too much over here on the edges this is going to be that um arm kind of coming coming out through the snow and these edges also will be very disguised with the snow that he's running through so if they don't look perfect do not worry we're gonna cover them a lot with uh with much more information and then we're gonna be utilizing this same brush for the next step so once you've got the base coat of your tiger on here you can wash and dry that large brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're painting some facial features i'm going to be using my small brush the colors that i'm using are black brown rust yellow and white so i'm using all the colors on my palette i might even use the gray too that i pre-mixed so i'm going to kind of guide you into where they're going i know i said that i was going to be using my large brush for the next step but i changed my mind and i'm going to use my small brush because it's easier to paint small features with a small brush so i'm going to start with some black paint on my brush and i'm going to guide you into where these eyes are first and those will anchor the face and then we'll put the other features on so relatively speaking the eyes of a tiger are pretty small for its head so we're gonna have two little eyes somewhere in this vicinity so to find out where this is if you go directly below the inner corners of the ears and you're going to come down i would say about a third of the way almost halfway down your um your head so somewhere in through here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to make myself a little downward kind of arcing line something like this and i'm going to do the same thing on the other side so this is going to be kind of a downward arcing type of motion they're not more than i would say and maybe an inch in length or so so not not too long and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put two uh bottom portions of an of a circle down in through here so i'm leaving these little corners on the right and the left and i'm putting this bottom portion of a circle in through there and i'll do the same thing on the other side so leaving the pointy corners and then just bringing myself down this portion of a circle something like that and just making sure it looks like that they kind of blend in well together and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to travel down from the inner corners of the eye about halfway between them and the bottom of my um my face so somewhere in this vicinity right about here corner of the eye corner of the eye this is going to be the top of the nose portion so what i'm going to do here is i'm going to bring this down in a little bit of a inward arcing kind of triangle type of shape down about i would say down about an inch i have little curves on these little bits of curves they don't have to be very drastic and then i'm going to put myself on a little bit of a mouth i don't have much paint on my brush at this point just so i can have these kind of loose sketcherly type of lines i don't need to overdo it with a ton of paint i like my edges to be nice and soft i'm going to bring up these little corners of the nose in through here like this and then i'm going to create a dark area and the underneath the eyes which will give me kind of a contour shape of the nose i'm going to not wash my brush but i'm going to put some brown paint on it with the black so this way it won't go too too dark on me but at least it'll be dark enough where i will be able to see the difference between it and the um and the top of the nose and i'm just kind of rubbing this in underneath these eyes just to kind of segregate or to get that nose to pop out a little bit and then i'm just kind of blending this in to to the cheek area a little bit and of course you can certainly reshape your nose i think i want that a little bit wider in through there to get it to do what you want it to be and then what i'm going to do is i am going to be putting a little pinkish type of skin on the nose so i'm going to wash and dry my small brush and i'm going to mix my burnt sienna with a touch of white paint so this is going to give you a little bit of like a a skin tone that i'm going to utilize for the nose so i've got my skin tone on my on my brush i'm going to give myself a couple of little downward curves and through here leaving a little bit of that black along the edges maybe even a little dark line in between here and then just kind of getting this to almost fade into the top of the nose just put a little burnt sienna on my brush so this gets a little bit darker leading up towards that black in through there and then maybe i'll put a touch of white paint on my brush just to give myself a little bit of extra highlight and through here that's a bit much so putting a little bit more rust paint on my brush just so this sticks out a little bit so definitely you can see it and of course you can fiddle with it as it dries and once we put the rest of the face on you'll you'll see that this will make a whole lot more sense once we've got the rest of the face on there then i'm going to wash and dry my brush i'm not really doing anything with the mouth because that's going to be just an illusion with all the fur that's around it i'm going to put my eyes on right now so i'm going to put a tiny touch of white yellow and rust on my brush at the same time so very little bit of all three of those colors and what i'm going to do is i'm going to give myself a little crescent at the bottom of the um of this black area but i'm leaving a little bit of black underneath and i'm leaving an area for like the pupil of the eye so just a little tiny bit of this color i'm going to put a little bit more rust and yellow just so i have a little richer tone in through there a bit and of course you can certainly bring this into whatever kind of color that you want but once you've got the color in there that you want then what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of white paint and give myself a little bright glow at the bottom of that color part that's going to give you the um the gazing stare of the of the tiger and then all of the other like fur and details on the face and around the eyes we'll be doing that later when we do the fur on the head um but if you wanted to you could certainly pick up a little bit of the gray and the white in order to kind of start that process just with a little bit of light for underneath the eyes in through here maybe just giving yourself a little bit more information so as we do build the um the eyes and stuff you'll have some additional colors and maybe even that little bit of an eyebrow that you that is very iconic above the um above the cat eyes so once you get this done we are going to be um switching to our large brush so i'm just kind of getting some little light areas for my eyebrows in through here and then i'm going to do any little fiddles and modifications that i want and i will put my small brush away take out my large brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish the fur on the chest and the legs i'm going to be using my large bristle brush to paint but i'm going to use my medium brush to mix my colors so we already have black which we'll be using um and white which i'll use as like a little bit of a highlight for the exterior fur but i want to get a like two tones of we'll call them tiger tans so they're kind of like a real golden blonde type of color can steer a little bit more towards orange um as well at which this burnt sienna puts a great base to provide that orangey type of tone so i've mixed pre-mixed myself two tiger tans a light one and a dark one so i've got my light tan here and my dark tan here so how i got to these was i utilized yellow rust and white and i made myself two shades one is lighter than the other so this one right here is pretty pretty good i think i want it a little bit lighter so i add a little bit more white to it you can steer this in as light of a tone as you want as yellowy as you want as orangey as you want there's many different variations in tiger tan type of colors so i wanted this a little bit darker so i just added a little bit more rust and yellow to it and then once you've got that's one one tone right in through there that i'll work with and then i want another tone similar to this so this is going to be the same thing only less white so i've got some yellow i've got my burnt sienna and just a teeny touch of white will get me into this darker tiger tan type of color and then once i've got my two colors established yeah that's looking pretty good i'm going to utilize them for the fur along with black and maybe a little bit of white as well so i'm going to put my medium brush away because i'm going to paint my fur with my black so i've already got a good amount of darkness down in through here i do want to have a couple of the black kind of tiger stripes on one of the arms one or both of them so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my big brush and i'm just going to dip the tip of it into a little bit of black so i have a touch of it on the end of my brush and i'm going to give myself i want this black area in the middle to kind of make sense over on the arms so i'm going to give myself maybe a little bit of a of a striped kind of effect over here on the arms and what i'm doing is i'm really just taking the tip of my brush and kind of pulling it in the direction that i feel that the fur would be would be falling on this particular body part and it doesn't have to be in perfect stripes or anything like that i'm going to put a little bit more up in through here and then maybe bring a little bit more underneath this chin in through here just to maybe separate out this um the chin from the two jowly type of areas so you can certainly when you're on this step kind of start forming the outside shape of the face and then i'm going to go ahead and bring maybe a little bit more of these stripes over on this arm too as it's kind of wrapping around and getting ready to kind of come out and through here i've got a lot of nice darkness on in through the inside but if you felt like you wanted to add any more to accentuate any of the striped type of look in through here you can certainly just kind of add some black intermingled with whatever else that you have down there so then i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to start adding the lighter fur tones onto it so i'm going to use my darker tiger tan over on this left hand side and maybe little bits on the outskirts of both arms maybe a little bit in through here and then i'll use the lighter tan as i get towards the exterior fur and especially on this right paw because i want it to look like it's closer to us so i'm going to start with a little bit of the dark tan on my brush and a very little bit you don't need much at all and i'm going to just utilize the tip of my brush and just kind of bring it in this curved type of motion again in between the um the black stripes but intermingled with them as well so that's going to help to sell the story that they are in fact kind of overlapping and they're um really together on this particular animal so if i have them too disconnected like not overlapping each other then they may not look as natural so i'm just kind of utilizing the tip of my brush to get myself these little markings that are gonna look like little pieces of fur and i'm getting them to intermingle with the black stripes as well i will um also utilize some of the light tan too in this area but right now i'm just kind of utilizing the the darker color just to kind of get this on here and make sure that i have a good representation of a tan to to work with and as i come down towards the bottom again in my head i know that this whole area is going to be covered by snow so i'm not i'm not doing a whole heck of a lot to it when i get into this inside area i'm going to do the same brush stroke i have not reloaded my brush so i hardly have any paint on my brush at this time so this is really just adding these kind of faint illusion of additional stripes and the and the fur kind of almost in the shadows underneath the um the chin area and inside here then i still haven't reloaded my brush i'm going to put a little bit of this darker tan over here on the edge and in a second i'll start to pick up my light tan color but right now just kind of want to make sure that i have all of these colors you know talking to each other and making sure that they look like they belong together so in order to do that layering them from the dark to the light helps to create that that um depth illusion in in in the fur so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of my light tan on my dirty brush i didn't wash my brush and i'm going to start to add a little bit of the lighter tan on top and get it to kind of intermingle with the with the darker tan and it will turn a little bit darker as it dries so just know that as you're doing this process especially when you have a dark base coat to it it will end up looking a little bit darker as it dries so i'm mentally planning for that and then i'm going to go ahead and do some over on this side i think i'm going to pick up my light tan plus a touch of white as i get towards this right side just so i can get it to have a little bit more lightness and texture to it and again i'm hardly touching my canvas i don't have much paint on my brush at all and i'm just kind of giving myself the illusion of this soft kind of tiger fur just on these arms with a lot of dimension to it and just getting it to look nice and fluffy again i know i'm going to have the snow in front of this but i just want it to all look like it makes sense i think i'm going to put a little bit more of my dark tan up in this area so you can again just kind of keep fiddling with it i feel like i want these edges to have a little bit more of that darker tan kind of represented and overlapping with the black and if even if you felt you wanted to put a little bit more of the black in there too you could certainly do that like i feel i may want that so i just picked up a tiny bit of black paint on my dirty brush and again just to make sure everything is talking well together so if you're going through this process and you're like oh my black's hiding or that doesn't look like it's you know talking to the other fur just intermingle a little bit more in there and you'll you'll get the job done and then once you've got your fur done you can fiddle with it all you want but once you've got it done we are going to be utilizing our medium brush for the next step just kind of adding a little bit more fluff into this chest area and of course you can you know mix and match all you want and get it to be as light and as fluffy as you want but again the snow will definitely um help to lighten up that equation as well and again i'm going to pick up a little bit more of my light tan sorry this is one of those times where it's like can i ever stop i'm not quite sure but i'm sure i will at some point um so once you find a place where you can stop you can put this large brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to do the dark areas on the face fur so i'm going to be using my medium brush this is going to consist of fur inside the ears it'll be all the black markings that you traditionally see on a tiger face so the little stripes on the sides of the face will put in some little dark shadowy areas by the chin some creases and some dark markings along the forehead and then maybe some additional darkness on the sides of the face and maybe a little on the nose too but i'm going to start with black paint my medium brush and you do not need a lot of paint on your brush so really just a teeny tiny bit on the tip you can wipe it off on the side of your palette you could even use it initially with a little bit of water on your brush that will give you a little bit of fluidity to it so how i'm going to do this is i'm really just going to be using the tip of my brush to kind of tell myself where i want some of these um markings so to speak so i i'm utilizing my brush in a kind of a wiggling type of technique to give me the um information of the fur in the same direction like i did along the body as well i'm going to do some up by the eyes so really if if you don't feel like there's a long fur type of area you really can just kind of swipe in these little dark marks i definitely want some dark black fur inside the ears so just making sure that that is represented well then i'm gonna go ahead um i think i want a little bit more in through here so i just wiped my brush off because i felt like i had a little bit too much paint on it i still feel like i have too much paint on it so let's just wipe it off and i'm just kind of rubbing in a little bit of a dark area along the edges of the chin just to make sure that i've got that represented i've got i want to have a little stripe down this side of the face so you can you know utilize the tip of your brush utilize as much or as little paint as you want but i know for me the less paint that i have on my brush the more control that i seem to be able to keep with it so that's why i'm you know definitely not having much paint on my brush at all i think i want a little bit more over on this side as well with a little bit of black stripes of sorts around those eyes and they don't have to be the same from one side to the other so maybe one side of the face has more stripes in it than the other so you can certainly feel free to utilize your own visual preference a little bit of darkness on the sides of those nose on the side of the nose i'm going to put some up in the forehead so i've got maybe some around some darkness around the eye and through here maybe we've got like a little dark crease in through here and of course you can manipulate this whatever way you want if you feel like you are doing you've done a stripe that's too big don't worry when we go to do the the lighter areas of the fur you'll be able to lessen it or make it um you know a little bit duller and not so vibrant or so dark if you if you do an area that's too too much for you to for you to like and something like that i'm going to make sure that i've got some black up in this ear up in through here and then i think the mouth is pretty good maybe maybe just a little kind of darkness in through here not much i think i'm going to bring in a little bit i didn't wash my brush i just put a little bit more rust on my brush just to make sure this is really pretty dark in these cheeks as it's going to go into the um into the brighter fur that we'll do in a minute i'm thinking that's pretty good maybe a little bit more above this eye and through here and i can always add more later if i get to a point as i'm doing the light fur if i get to a point where i'm like i wish i had more darkness here you can always add more it's you know that's the beauty of painting you can you can adjust it as you see fit maybe a little bit more in this crevice of the eye and through here so that's looking pretty good to me um so i'm going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry the medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the light areas on the face so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using probably my um dark and light tiger tans white and maybe some gray too and maybe a little birth sienna if i feel i need it which i probably will use it a little bit on the nose so what i'm going to do here is i'm just going to kind of work from my dark to my light so i'm going to use my dark tiger tan i should patent the name on that one my dark tiger tan um for a lot of areas on the maybe the top of the head and maybe in the cheeks and then i'm going to work my way towards the light tiger tan and then the white areas of the tiger are going to be around the the chin and the sides of the face in through here a couple of white areas above the eyes and through there and then around the ears but during the white areas i'll also be using some of my gray color that um i had from the background which i'm not sure if i said that or not but i'm going to use that as well so what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with some of my dark tiger tan so it's going to be this orangey beachy kind of color and i know that i want a little bit of it on my nose i'm going to be using a lot in the shorter fur areas a stippling type of technique so that means i'm just going to be kind of dotting it in the area that i want it and what i'll do is if i want this color in through here and then i want it to blend up into that burnt sienna i'll dot it here and then what i'll do is i'll pick up some of my burnt sienna and get it to blend right in as it's traveling up that nose so something like this will give me that brighter tone at the tip of the nose and then because i have a little bit of that tan plus rust on my brush it'll get it'll allow me to bring it up into these um little creases that we've we've created i'm tapping it in between the black areas with just the tip of my brush and that's giving it a nice effect i'm going to pick up some more of my dark tiger tan and do the same thing up in the head so i'm just going to kind of tap in this color in between where i had the black markings and because i'm tapping it it will naturally kind of overlap the black a little bit and it's going to give you a nice textural effect that'll almost make it look like the black areas could be either creases or markings or both so you can you can visually um have a good play with the um with the effects and through there and then when i'm getting into this ear region i'm going to start to just kind of intermingle my dots with um the the little fur that comes up in front of the ears so something like that and then again just kind of dotting in between my my black areas to get this lighter fur to to happen up on the top of the head it's going to be shorter first so i'm not terribly concerned yet about using a distinct brush stroke i'm going to gradually get to that when i get to the longer fur around the edges of the face i just kind of keep picking picking up that um the darker tan color and just kind of continuing to add little bits of of layers to it and it gets brighter and brighter every every time every pass i do because it'll put a thicker coat on there which allows me to bring it into a more vibrant place without really doing too much to it and as the color dries you can see it might get a little darker so you just keep adding those little bits of dots and layers until it brightens up as much as you want i still just have the dark tiger tan on my brush i want to give a couple of little pieces of um fur in through here intermingling with the cheek a little bit so just kind of tapping the corner of my brush in a little bit of a down and out type of um direction this gives me just a little hint of that orangey type of fur around the face that's looking pretty good um i got my nose done i think now i'm gonna just put a little bit of the light tiger tan on here so i can give a nice bright highlight up at the top of the head so something like this and this will um i can intermingle this a little bit into some of my stripes just to give it a authenticity that some of it is fluffed up a little bit more than others maybe a little tiny tip on the on the edge of the nose maybe a little bit in through here giving it just a little bit more length perhaps i'm going to have a couple of pieces kind of fling out the sides to show a lot of movement in my tiger so right now i'm going to start that with the light um the light tan that we have so just maybe a little bit maybe a little bit below the ear or i mean below the eye into the right to the sides of the face and i'm going to do the same thing here so again hardly any paint on my brush is allowing me to do this and then just kind of tapping i'm working my way into what's going to be the white areas of the face i'm not really doing much on the ears right now because they're going to be the white fur but maybe just bring a little bit of this tan up the sides just so it kind of works its way into it now what i'm going to do is i'm going i'm going to wash and dry my brush i'm going to pick up now my t my gray color plus white on my brush so i have my gray plus a little bit of white i don't need a lot of paint but the what i'm going to do is i'm going to start my white areas with gray paint so that way i can build and have some dimension within them so again very little bit of paint on my brush i'm going to have white fur on the um on the chinny chin chin in through here and as i do it i'm bringing it in a brush stroke that makes sense to me that looks like it's coming out and has some curve to it i'm overlapping it into the chest area just a little bit so it looks like it's got some natural pieces of fur in through there i also want to put some on this area right near the nose so this is just little short pieces that are going to have the whiskers on them so just kind of tapping this in in the direction that i feel makes sense so it's coming out and just kind of in in that direction then i'm going to also bring some of this up the sides of the face so again just gray plus a little bit of white so this is um and again very little paint so you can always add more but it's really tough to take away once it's on there so i'm gonna have this kind of overlapping it my um my black stripe over here and your markings again will probably be much different than mine it's going to be totally up to you how light and bright or gray that you want yours to be you might want yours to be way more powerful than mine or brighter than mine it's going to be a personal preference on your part they don't have to be the same from one side to the next so just know that i'm going to go ahead and bring some down over in through here and this is going to be some kind of blending in with this midsection in through here and again i hardly have any paint on my brush and if you're nervous about the brightness just add more gray to your to your equation and that's gonna allow you to build it in a in a um or not necessarily organized way but a controllable way so it doesn't end up being too light or too bright right off the bat so again it'll add more dimension to it if you if you kind of build it in this slow fashion as opposed to just going white right out of the gate because if you go white right out of the gate you can't get any whiter than white so so in order for it to have this dimension to it you've got to kind of build your way to the white paint so that's definitely one i i heard one time i don't know if i heard it or somebody told somebody i read it or something but i remember a time when it was brought to my attention that you cannot see the the light without the dark so if you're doing white areas they're not going to be bright bright white or you're not going to recognize them as such unless they're built around some darker areas so even white fur it'll appear whiter if it's built with or next to some darker paint so that's why i like to give it with the the darkness underneath even if it's like a gray type of color and that's going to help me to build it in a nice natural kind of way so now i'm i'm almost just about ready to go right in for my white but you can also if um you want to you could use white with a little bit of yellow as opposed to doing this grayish area or the gray build but i'm going to just pick up some white paint now without washing my brush and i'm going to start i'm going to build these really bright pieces so i've got some brightness coming out into here you could also use your bristle brush if you wanted to give this more if more of a textural type of a look if you've got some good control with your bristle brush or if you're using a smaller bristle brush you could certainly do the same type of effect i get this fur to overlap the mouth a little bit so that way it looks like it is um living on top of it and perhaps he needs a tiger haircut in order to to be able to um you know eat better i guess when i'm going in through here you can also do like little rows of the white paint so it looks like it gives you that initial um area where we can put our whiskers something like that and then go ahead and you can do it on the other side and again if white is too white for you you can certainly dull it down with any any of your tiger tans or with the gray or with a little bit of uh yellow would help to to dull it down a little bit and then i'm just going to kind of keep making these little areas here i think i'm picking up some of my light tan with white as i work my way towards these outer skirts of the fur going up towards these areas that i'm going to have kind of picking out or flipping out in through here so this is i'm on my brush right now is light tan plus my white and this has given me some really nice dimension on these um white areas as well so just again with that little bit of addition of a different tone in in that white helps to give that beautiful markings and that dimensional element to it i've got to put a little bit above the eyes and then in the ears and then we'll move on to our next step this is looking pretty good maybe a little bit more in through here i don't feel like this is reading as white enough in through here so again you know stepping back and and kind of seeing your painting from a distance will also help for me i see it this close so sometimes i have to remind myself wait until you look at it from a distance it'll you know you'll be able to see things better but right now as i'm looking at it close up i feel like i'm going to need a little bit more up on these ears so i'm picking up some white and maybe a little bit of my gray just to get these ears to have some good dimension and i want them to read as as white but i still don't want to just go white to start so just gray and white is going to help me start this and just pull these little pieces of fur into the inside of the ear so it looks like he's got the you know the protective pieces of fur covering the important parts of his ear and then once i've got that on now i can pick up a touch of white paint and just give these little kind of fluffy edges to it and you can certainly pull them out as far as you want they some of these tigers have a lot of little fluffy edges to their ears i think especially during the winter time when they've got some extra fur coat on them they can tend to have you know longer little pieces on their ears and all kinds of stuff so have fun with the with the thickness of those or if you just want your your tire to look really nice and and comfy with a lot of fluffiness to them you can certainly do that as well and then let's see what else we've got little details that we gotta attend to so we're gonna do that in the next step which will be like our whiskers and the little details around the eyes so you can fiddle with your fur as much as you want make any little adjustments that you want and then once you feel like you've got it all nice and done you can put this um this medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish the facial details so it's just a little fine-tuned whiskers and any little magic we want to put around the eyes as well or any other little little details i'm going to use my small brush i'm primarily going to be using white black and probably my light tiger tan so what i'm first going to do is i'm going to put in some little chaotic black markings where i want my whiskers to come out of i do not need a lot of paint and you can even use a little bit of water on your brush and i'm really just gonna i just want to make sure i don't have much paint on my brush at all i'm gonna just tap in maybe two rows of little darkness in through here i i like to have it very um organic and kind of natural looking where maybe it's just layers upon layers of the the fur and the whisker holes which i'm sure that's not exactly what it's called but um if you feel like you did too much just pick up some of your white and maybe a little bit of the light tan and then just kind of bring uh you know any little pieces in front if you feel oops i have too much paint on my brush if you feel that maybe your your row of whisker dots is too much you can just kind of put little pieces of the fur in between and that'll just break it up a little bit so while that's kind of drying i'm going to tackle my details around my eyes so i really want this to have a little bit more expression so i just picked up some white paint i could have done this with my medium brush but i felt like i was going to get more control with my small brush so white maybe a little bit of the light tiger tan but definitely um white i'm going to put kind of i'll call it like the eyebrow bone kind area in through here just kind of elevating the brightness of it maybe bringing some of that white marking down in this little corner of the eye and the wonderful thing about tigers is they have markings that are not all the same so you can really have fun with where you want to put the light areas and the dark areas i'm going to do something similar on this side where i had this little area in here so just a little bit of the white and just making sure that it kind of blends in with all of my other markings but i like to have this lighter marking of sort kind of represented on these eyes because it really gives them that expressive type of look i'm even going to put a little bit of lighter fur underneath the eyes just to give them a bit of more detail i'm going to do the same thing over here just kind of tapping in a real light color maybe bringing this out in through here i think i'm going to pick up some of my light tan plus white so i can put a little bit more of some information up in through here and of course if you felt that you wanted to add some extra black markings feel free to do so you're you know again you're you're going on this journey this tiger journey on your own so you can certainly make it into whatever type of tiger you want it to be you can have lots of different information i think i want to build up this little fur around this eye too so maybe a little bit more of this white fur coming out in through here maybe this trails into the face a little bit more in through here and then whatever you do just make sure that it kind of makes sense with the rest of the with the rest of the face maybe i think i'm going to pick up some black paint and give myself a little bit more black detail over on the edge of the eye and through there maybe bring this up just a little bit more widen that eye a little bit and you know just play with it until you feel like you've got it into the zone that is making your painterly eye happy but you know giving these little extra bits of information around the around the eyes can really help to make it more uniquely yours i'm going to put a little bit lighter fur up on this forehead i didn't know i was going to but i'm going to because i feel like i want the forehead to pop out a little bit more so just maybe that light tan plus some white on my brush and then any little details around you feel that would um advance or make this into what what you want it to be and then once i've got that done i'm of course just going to keep tapping in different little colors on the forehead i'm thinking that's pretty pretty good i keep putting my head back so i can kind of see everything i'm doing here but i might have to step out on the other side of the room in order to see this fully but once i've got this done i'm going to put some little whiskers in if i can ever stop this putting colors on the forehead but okay i'm going to stop i'm going to stop now maybe i think i think now maybe a little bit more rust on my brush to get this little rust yeah there we go we got some rust in the face there we go that looks nice okay so i'm going to do some whiskers so i'm washing and drying my brush so my trick with my whiskers is you want to have very fluid paint so i'm going to take my white and just add even if it's dirty water like i've got right now just adding some water into it so it's very fluid i can always make my whiskers more dark if this turns out to be too translucent but the fluidity in it is going to help me to get long slender whiskers and if you go too thick or whatever don't worry you can always wipe it away quickly if it's if it's you know still wet you can wipe it away with your brush or a paper towel or something so they're going to naturally come out of where we just kind of put those dark marks i like to kind of go quick and i'm going to have them coming out like this but they're going to have some good length to them they're not all going to be the same length and as i do this i like to kind of if i can use my hand as a brace which will help me to not push into my canvas too hard most of the time and you can have them coming in different directions so don't feel that they all have to be coming out in the same direction so that's looking pretty good for me on that side i'm going to go ahead and do some on the other side so again just kind of getting them to go out so that one's too thick for me so what i'm going to do while it's still wet i'm going to just take a little bit of water and just kind of narrow it so you can do that i could even just pull it back a little bit with a paper towel there we go and that of course i just totally switched brushes too i grabbed from my tray there we go so just kind of doing that and just bringing it out whiskers are so much fun you could always also just grab some of your gray from the um background to thin it out if that happens to you so here we go we're going to make some more now and hopefully they won't get too big so there we go that was a perfect one so that's the beauty of um whisker making is they don't always come out exactly the way that you want but if you do them enough you'll find your own way of of correcting them when they don't go the way that you want so that's looking pretty good i got i got a good assortment going on here i can see that they look like whiskers to me and they're going in in different directions so that is totally flying for me all right so we are going to be using our um large brush for the next step so once you've got your final details done on your face make any little final adjustments that you want and then we're going to utilize the large brush for the next step so just get ready all right so for the next step we're going to be making some snow i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm going to use are my background gray white and maybe a little bit of yellow or my light tiger tan but i'll see how that goes as we're going through the process so what i want to do is i'm going to build from the dark to the light and i want there to look like there's a little shadow underneath my tiger but i also want there to really look like he's barreling through this snow and maybe there's some sunshine somewhere so the sunshine will be lighting up some of the snow but i really want there to be some bright snow flying up so the only way the bright snow is going to look like it's bright snow is if we reserve the white for last so don't just come out of the gate using white paint you want to start with it being darker and work your way to that so how i'm going to first start this is i'm going to put a shadow underneath my tiger so i'm going to be using my background gray plus a tiny bit of white so i have my background gray plus a tiny bit of white i'm going to be just rubbing it down in through here i want it to be darker than what i have here but i don't necessarily need it to be just um that background gray so that's why i'm using a little bit of white with it and then i'm going to get it to kind of blend out into the regular snow it or the regular ground itself so just kind of get it to blend out a little bit so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to be picking up my background gray plus white in order to give myself this airy like um um i don't know what the word is um the snow being kicked out i'm like an atmospheric kind of fluff to the snow that's being thrown about so i have my background gray plus white and what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna rub it in in this almost like a dry brush technique so i don't have very much paint on my brush at all and i want to give it this airiness as it's going up into the um sky the only i if there was a tricky part about this i'm going to say the trickiest part about this is going to be getting it to go around your tiger so it looks natural so what i'm going to do down here it doesn't matter because you can bump into your tiger because it'll it'll all work out you want that bottom of the tire to look like it's kind of just intermingled into the snow anyways but when you get around the back side of it that's going to be a little bit trickier so when you come towards it if you want there's to be some lightness behind it just kind of wiggle your brush in a little bit right into those edges you can always paint things like whiskers back on top of it if you need to you can also use a touch of water when you're doing this light kind of atmospheric misty stuff not mist foggy type of snow that you're using but if you use water what you'll want to note or know is that it will look lighter when it's wet so just don't be alarmed if as you're doing it you're like oh my god that's so light if you have water in the mixture it will look lighter when it's wet and then it will just darken as it dries i'm going to put a little bit around the head so it looks like there is definitely he's coming through and it's be trailing behind him all this like fogginess to it and i'm just kind of bumping into them i don't want it to look like i'm painting around them so if i accidentally bump into them i can totally do just some little touch-ups if i want to i think i want this mid section to be nice and bright so what i'm going to do i am going to use maybe a touch of my yellow i'm going to just mix that in with a little bit of my white so i have like a real faint pale yellow type of a color maybe with a touch of water on my brush just to give myself this real light maybe sunshiny type of appearance to some of the snow but again i don't need it to go all the way white yet i'm really avoiding that because i i want there to be that illusion of the snow really just kind of piling up or like the bright part of the snow um coming out as the end result so if you feel like you go too light like i felt like i just went too light i picked up more of my background gray so right now the colors i'm using are my background gray white and a little bit of yellow but again not much yellow just enough to give it maybe a sunshine type of glow to it and just making sure that it everything dissipates into one another and looks like it belongs together and then i'm gonna be working into my making sure that i kind of overlap my tiger a little bit um in through the paws and in through these legs just so it looks like he's really just kind of barreling through this snow making sure i've got a little bit coming up in through here so again just my gray and my white you can even start to put a little bit of more distinct type of snow as it's coming in front of them like this something just kind of tap in my brush a little bit to give a little bit more information as opposed to just the fogginess so this is looking pretty good to me i think i'm going to start in a minute to add maybe a little bit more lightness i just want to get a lot of this on here before i start adding the white white again so it really just looks nice and natural to me and because i'm using very little paint i can still see those whiskers but if your whiskers disappear feel free to just kind of intermingle or just re you know repaint them when you feel that it's necessary and again i just want this to look really natural like it's you know just foggy as it's dry and i'm just watching it and if i need to amp it up a little bit i do so that's where you'll see me kind of going repeating myself in certain areas that's looking pretty good so i'm thinking i'm just about ready to start with the brighter stuff so i'm going i'm going in i'm going in for some white but i'm cautious so i got a lot of white on my brush and maybe just a touch of my my gray just you know i'd rather be safe than sorry and i'm as i do this bright white and again if it if it ends up too bright you can always bring back some of the some of the gray but i know i definitely want a bunch in through here like he's just barely i'm using a lot of a tapping type of um brush stroke in order to get this in in through here making sure i've got some down in through here i wanted to disa you know make sure that it looks like it's making sense so just as i'm adding it i'm also kind of tapping and just rubbing it into the the neighboring areas so it makes sense i want to continue to see that shadow underneath them so i'm not overdoing it in through there and i right now i'm i'm not reloading my brush yet i will in a second but just getting some of this brightness over in through here putting a little bit more on my brush now gonna give myself some some bright stuff over in through here just kind of tapping this i'm slowing down now because i want to make sure that i put things exactly where i want them this is going to kind of just splay up in through here maybe a little bit more white with a touch of my gray since it's going a little bit further away and so i can maintain that brightest stuff right near him maybe we've got a couple pieces just popping up over and through here and again if once it dries and you and you see how it kind of settles if the if it goes too bright you know you can always dull it back down with your background gray so don't you know i know i cautioned you don't make it too bright but if it does go that way you've got the ability to darken it back up if you want to i'm going to put some of this brighter stuff right in through here make sure this looks like it's kind of just being kicked up by his beautiful paws maybe a little bit of the gray mixture just in through here again i i like to make sure that you know the white stays white and that we've got some some different variations of it so it you know we have our darker areas and then it builds its way to that bright bright stuff and then i think i'm just going to kick a little bit more up in through here right now i just am picking up white just making sure that i've got some beautiful displays of this yeah this is looking pretty good i'm gonna bring some of this out in through here maybe maybe bring this up in through here and this is the part where i'm just going to start fiddling and and and getting the i keep wiping my brush off on my paper towel because as i go farther away i want less and less on my on my brush i think i'm picking i'm going to pick up a little bit of the gray as well and so i just kind of keep um going from my white to my gray and concentrating on the whitest white bean right around here and then as it gets farther away maybe we've got a couple pieces of it through here being kicked up as it goes farther and farther away letting it be a little bit more gray so it looks like it's you know just adding to that atmospheric kind of way of the snow maybe we'll get this to go a little bit lighter as it comes out in through here but not all the way white and then just you know let it settle sit back look at it from a distance see if there's anything more that you want to do on it and then we are going to be utilizing our small brush for the next step so once you've got this beautiful snow done and if you can ever stop or you can put your big brush away take out your um small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i typically sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right i'm going to sign it with my small brush with black paint i think i'm going bottom left on this one so i signed mine with my initials but you could certainly sign yours with your first name or your full name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like for your identifying mark to be is totally fine and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself a beautiful winter tiger and i look forward to 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Length: 71min 1sec (4261 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 18 2021