Acrylic Painting with Pastel Techniques on Canvas: Big Eye Portrait Painting

1. INTRO: Big Eyes Portrait: welcome to this Fairy acrylic painting on canvas in this project will be going through step by step on how I painted this fairy face in acrylics and pastels. I'll be showing you my methods on how I painted her skin, her eyes, her nose, her lips and I'll also be providing the fairy line art that you can download and copy right onto your canvas. We'll be painting this fairy in real time, step by step. I also include painting the abstract flowers in her hair, the butterfly and my method of adding glitter to artwork. Discover my secrets on how I achieved these soft looking faces. Aggie Pixie let's paint a fairy. If you want to join this class with me, just find me on skill share. (In her quaint studio) You can also find me on instagram just going to my bio and click on my Link Tree link and click on skill share. I hope to see you in my class 2. Part1: PREP & TRACE: All right, so let's get started today. I'll be using a 12 by eight inch canvas, and I'm gonna prep it by using a cool grey acrylic paint. You can use any great paint you have on hand using on all over paint. Color just helps with seeing the tones better, and it's sometimes a nice just to start from one color instead of a blank white canvas that I'm going to take out my transfer sheets. This is the brand that I'm using, and I really like it a lot. Make sure that the paint on your canvas is dry. You can use a blow dryer if you want to speed things up, so you take a sheet out and this is what it looks like. There's two sides to it. You have to make sure that the graphite part is on the canvas. So here I'm just turning it over, and then you take your drawing, the one that you want to transfer onto your cannabis. You face it towards you. Uh, that is included in the class downloads, and then you take any pencil that you have on hand and make sure that you center it proper properly and just go over all the lines with your pencil. Basically, I used a very light hand because I didn't want it to be too dark on my canvas. If you press hard on your pencil, the lines will be much darker. So as you see in a bit, I went really light handed and you can choose to go a little bit darker if you prefer. So I just trace over carefully every line. Once in a while, I do lift up the transfer sheet to make sure that everything is going smoothly. I'm just checked in. Okay. So as you can see some lines or darker, I use the light hand and some lines are a little bit later. I decided to just trace over these lines again because I found they were a little bit too late. So I suggest you you don't go so light handed. Please note that the line art that you will find in the class downloads is slightly different than this original pixie line art. Just because at the time I was unsure of what kind of roses I was gonna put in her hair and then at the last minute I decided to add a butterfly. Thankfully, the line ERT that is in the class downloads is much nicer and my opinion, and I think you'll have a lot of fun painting this pixie with me. If you have any questions, please be free to send me a message on. I'll be happy to answer any of your questions on to Part two now. 3. Part2: MY SKIN BASE TECHNIQUE: Okay, so let's take out our charcoal soft pencil and I'll be using this acrylic paint in. I ever you white. And I'll be using this shaming. Keep Estelle color in 019 It is a burnt yellow Oakar, and this is going to be the base of the skin color. I really love this brand of chalk pastel. It's very, um, luxurious, I would say. And high quality. So if you could get your hands on this, I really recommend it. Okay, so I'm going to trace out all the lines with my charcoal pencil, and I am going to use this as a shading color. Now, I wouldn't usually use this as a shading color, but for this particular pixie, I am actually going to play with a darker shade. I usually go with blues and purples, but because I'm gonna keep this pixie in just three main colors which are going to be like pinks graze and, uh, like blacks and whites. I thought the black shading would be great for this pixie. Then I take my shoes mink, pastoral color, and I put it just everywhere on the face. Then I'm going to take a brush any brush, and I am going to smudge it in the face. It's okay if you get a little bit of the charcoal inside. Well, make sure that the charcoal stays on the edge of the face if you can. So I'm going to distribute the chalk pastel. Oh, around the face. Here. I'm just adding a little bit more of the charcoal, and I'm smudging it to add a little bit of the shading around the face. Now, I take this white chalk pastel color and I am going to add it where the highlights are going to be so mostly around the forehead, the nose, the color goes a long way here. I'm just using my fingers and I'm just smudging the color everywhere. I'm not really worried. If the color goes into the hair at this point, it's really not gonna matter. Once you play the paint, I'm darkening up the shading around the face just by adding the charcoal around the edge again. And then just with my fingers, I'm going to blended in with the face color, and this is going to give me the basis of the shading around the face. Now I'm going to take the charcoal and just add the shading like, for example, under the lip around the hairline again. And then I blend with my fingers, okay, onto the cheeks. So I'm gonna take this color, which is called Carmen from the company called Rembrandt. This is another quality, um, pastoral. And I love this color for the cheeks. So I added to the cheek area and a blend away with my fingers and now time for the acrylic paint. So I take my ivory white acrylic paint for this project I use to a sizes of paintbrush. And these are the Filbert paintbrushes and the number four and the number eight. The's paintbrushes are really great for blending, and I really love the shape because it really gets into those curves, and I'm going to start applying it all over the face. And what this is going to dio is as I apply the paint, the paint will mix in with the pasta all colors and will transform the colors um, into basically, how can I explain this? Um, you're basically mixing the colors on the canvas as you go, instead of mixing the colors on the palette I'm basically mixing the colors on the canvas itself. And this'll is what gives it, um, a soft look. And you know this loose? Look, um, this is what I do with all my pixie illustrations. And I guess that is why they come out a little bit dreamy and soft looking. So I'm basically dab dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, Maxine acrylic paint with the pastoral colors. And as I go, the colors they don't go on as ivory. Wait, They actually will mix in with the pastels and resulting in this beautiful color. I switched to a bigger paintbrush. Now, just to get a little bit of a looser feel, um, you don't need to do this. I I just wanted to kind of go faster and at on the paint quickly. It's a little bit more challenging. You will start to lose the lines. Um, you can try this it if you feel uncomfortable, just stick with a smaller brush. Okay, So now I'm gonna take my charcoal pencil, and I am going to add a little bit of shading around the nose. I recommend that you wait a little bit for the pain to just dry up a little bit before you apply the charcoal. Apply it just around the eyes and the hood of the eyes. Then I take my brush. I do recommend a smaller brush for this, and I didn't add any pain to my brush. I simply smudge over the lines because the paint you know, it's not very wet. It's a little bit wet. It will smudge pretty well. Make sure your paint is not completely dry, but at the same time not completely wet. Okay, so, hero, I'm just checking to see if the paint is good to go. It's still a little bit wet, so I'm just gonna wait. So here, I'll just work on the hand and I'm adding the shading to the hand. Now just trace over the lines just on the edge, and I'm basically going to care. See, you can use a paintbrush or even your fingers. I like to work with my fingers, so I just want to darken up the shading so I'll go over the eyes again with the charcoal pencil. Okay, we will go over the I in the next section. Let's just continue working on the skin, so I'm going to move on to the hand. All right for the hand. I'm going to be using the every white acrylic paint with a touch of the white Jessel. Just so, um is great as a weight. And I mix the two together and I go over the edge of the charcoal. And as I will go over the edge, I'm smudging in the charcoal with the paint. And what this does is that it it turns the black charcoal into a gray and that is creates the shading on the edge of the hand. Now I'm going to add the highlights to the skin, and I'm taking my ivory white and I'm debited on toothy forehead. I added it on to the chin on the edge of the nose. You do not have to be perfect when adding the color. Just dab dab dab more or less where I'm showing you here on a little bit under the eye. Just ignore that painted I We will be going over the I in the next part. I have a little tip for you. Um, I think it's really helpful before you start. Any pain project is to do sort of like a pre paint mock up of more or less how you want the colors to be. And this is what I did before I started my project. And this is where I decided that, yes, I was gonna just stick to like, pinks and blocks, and actually, there was a little bit of green there, but I decided not to add that in. Okay, so I'm going to take the Carmen again, and I'm going to add more color to her face because with all the highlights, um, it kind of took away from the previous color. And I'm just intensifying the color now on the face, so you might ask, Well, why would you at the highlights, you know before and you know why it just it almost feels like you're doing this over and over again. Well, the reason is is that is the trick with acrylic painting, the more layers you have, the more depth you have, the more interest you have so by, you know, adding color, adding paint, adding the postal color, adding more paint. Um, it really does make a little bit of that difference. It has a painterly effect. And, you know, sometimes you might decide to change the color a bit. Maybe you do want the skin color a little bit darker, or you want the cheeks a little bit more pink. So I basically I found that she was looking a little bit too white, so I just wanted to even add more color to her face. So as it's that same technique of adding the pastel, adding the paint on top of the pastel dab dab dab, blending it all in and see just because the paint brush is loaded with that color, I can simply just add color with my paintbrush without adding paint to my paintbrush. So here I am re adding a little bit of the highlighting, and here I'm using the white Jess. Oh, now, as I add the white just so it will blend into the previous the under layers so it won't be as white again. I'm adding the white just so on top of the nose, the forehead that I'm gonna add it right under the eyes So the Jessel does two things. Um, it blends in the colors altogether. It adds highlights. It lightens the skin. As you can see, it's blending all in. It's almost melting altogether. This is the part that I actually love When I see all the colors melting altogether And as I move my paintbrush as you can see, the colors just blend away together. I don't need to add more, Jess. Oh, to my paintbrush. As I move my paint brush along the canvas. The colors will just blend in altogether. And it's okay if the paint goes onto the hair part. You will not see that afterwards. So the left side of her face will be darker. So we will be keeping the shading a little bit darker on that side. Where her hand Where she's sitting on her hand. Okay, I do take a just a touch of the Jess. Oh, and I'm going to highlight the right of her face with the Jets. So I'm going to add in a little bit more highlights on that side of the face because the light will be hitting from the right side. Okay, we can move on to the eyes now. 4. Part3: ETHEREAL EYES: painting the eyes. This is my favorite part. This is the brush will be using. Mostly it's around tipped brush and it's the number seven. Okay, so let's begin. I make sure that my canvas is dry and with my charcoal pencil, I will outline the iris and around the edge of the eye. And this will be the basis of my shading. Then I will take the every block and the Ivory White. I will mix it together to achieve this light Gray and I will just painted on the, um the iris part. And then I will take a little bit of that color. I see how I just added just touch touch of the black just to darken decrease of the island . Then I take a little bit of my ivory white, and I added to the iris because I want a lighten up that eye color. She's going to have ah, like great eyes. And then I just take that color and blended into the lid. I add a little bit more of the every white, and I lightened that up just a little bit more here I Instead of using water, I just simply wipe might brush onto the paper towel that I have there on hand, and then I feel that it's too dark. So I add, I continue adding the every white to lighten up that color here. I'm taking the, um, the Jessel and I'm adding it toothy five all part of the eye, and I added it on top of the lid. That's where the light would hit there, just on the middle of the live there. And now I just taking a little bit of block, and I'm adding to the pupils that will be the darkest per the I and I will dry my paintbrush, even, um, underneath the the lid there, that would be the darkest part of the eye. And here I'm just adding a little bit of shading, um, going to be adding the shading around the eye around the edge there of the corner, and now I'm defining the iris. I'm defining the crease a little bit more, and as I dab dab dab my paint brush on the canvas. The colors will blend together at the same time, so I'm taking my ivory white, and I just want to lighten up that eye color again. You can decide whether you want the eye color to be lighter or darker here. I'm just playing around with the color. As I move my paintbrush back and forth, the color does lighten up a bit. I do Just clean up my paintbrush onto my napkin There, Here I'm using a dry paint brush to blend away added a little bit of block here. I'm just defining the corner of the eye. The around the iris. I'm adding a little bit of that color just on the edge there of the corner of the eye where the eye begins to round out. So even with, ah, a dry ish brash, the color will still blend as long as the paint is still wet. So now I'm gonna take my, uh, my Jess. Oh, and I'm just going to really lighten up that iris. This is not actually the final highlights. I'm just I just want to, like, lighten it up, and I'm just muddling the colors together. I don't want the I to be so defined. I'm I just added a little bit of like a touch of black to the pupil to darken it up. Okay. In this case, I did add water just to take off the black here. I'm adding a little bit of just Soto waitin up the, um, the white part of the eye. Now I'm just adding the little bit of shading around the eye here. I'm just adding more color to the I. I'm basically just playing around with the eye color to see what is what looks nice to me, and I I think I like how it's going now. I'm just blending it all away, Okay? I'm just adding a little bit of more skin color. Um, and then I take my bigger brush, and I added a little bit of the Ivory White to it, and I felt like I needed to darken up the face. So I'm just adjusting this. The skin color. I'm adding a little bit of that skin color onto the lid a little bit under the eye, a little bit to the side. Don't be afraid to use your fingers, okay? And then on to the next I which I will speed up because basically, I just I basically go through the same, um, steps just as a side note. I did go in again with my, uh, pencil to retrace my nose and my lips because I did lose them while I was painting in the skin color. So if that happens to you, you can go ahead and retrace those details in. All right. So I'm adding a little bit of highlights around under the eye on the lid. I'm adding a little bit more of the cheek color with the Carmen color from a Rembrandt. And I'm just blending in a way here. I'm just going to start adding the final touches to the I. And I feel like I just need Teoh. Um maybe add a little bit more color to the I. I have to always go back and forth, and and the more layers you add, the more interesting it will become. So don't be afraid to play around. And here I'm just adding the highlights to the other. I so added basically on the lid and then underneath EI and I'm always adjusting the color. This might drive you a little bit crazy, so just, um, just try to pick a color that you like and stick with it. I kept on changing my mind, but Finally, I decided that, yes, this is the color I liked. Okay, so I'm adding a little bit of pink even to a little bit on top of the legis under the eyebrows. And then I take my white chalk pastel and I do add a little bit there onto the lid, and then I just take just a tad of my acrylic paint, which was the every white and I go over the pink that's under the eyebrows, and then I go over the lid. Now I need to just re add a little bit of the shading, So I will take a little bit, just like a tad of my, um every black and I will just add in the shading on the crease and at the corner of the eye, I'm basically wiping off my brush on my napkin and I blend away. I just add, like a touch of the paint to my paintbrush. And then I added to the canvas. I don't need to use a lot of paint at this point. I'm just, um, using a hint of color at this point, the acrylic a still wet. So I do have time to blend So you kind of have to work fast. And I'm adding just a little bit of, um, highlights to the eyes. I'm starting to lighten up the eyes now. Now I'm adding the white Jess Oh, to the the inner pupils and on to the edge of the eyeball, just right at the edge of in a little bit on the iris. The lightest part is just there on the edge of the iris and just in the middle of the lid. This is the Jess. Oh, paint. Now I'm just adding it to the, um just just underneath the eye like little dots. Little sparkles, I would say. Then I like to add a little bit of highlights just to the the tear decks that that, um it just adds that final ferry like touch, which I really love. Now I'm just adding in the eyebrows with just a hint of color, and I don't draw a straight line. I kind of just dab it on. Now I'm taking my white pistol. I added it right under the eyes and with my fingers. I'm just going to smudge it out. I add the weight pastel to the forehead. Um under the eye and a smudge it out, and it just gives thief face a very soft effect. Okay, with a clean paintbrush, I'm going to add the final final highlights Toothy eyes. So attitude the iris. Just a little dabs, um, on the edge of the iris on the islands, a few dabs on both eyelids, and at the same time I'm just contrast ing under the eyelids to add a little bit of contrast. I just add a touch of that block just underneath the eyelids. Here. I'm just blending it away, so just blends a little bit more, and that's pretty much it for the eyes. Let's go on to the eyelashes. 5. Part4: FULL LUSH EYELASHES: Are you ready for eyelashes here? I'm using appointed around tip brush. This isn't in a number seven, but you can use any pointed brush that you have as long gets its appointed brush. And I'm using Ivory Black because is not as strong as just like a normal black. So I just want to mention that before I start, I do dilute the black with a lot of water to get an inky consistency. That's how I get the paint to smooth and glide on. So very slowly, I I kind of practice on a separate piece of paper, my strokes to see if the if the paint slides on and to see the thickness of the paint. And then I go on to my eye and I just go very slowly. It's great just to take a deep breath, have your hand lying on the canvas and then flicking each line without worrying too much, just sort of flick flick. It seems easy, but I do admit it takes a lot of practice, and I think, um, if you practice on a separate piece of paper first and then dude on the canvas, you'll feel more confident. So here. I'm just kind of using the paint that's already on my canvas to make some of the eyelash strokes. So I'm going to start on this. I again I draw on a baseline and then without picking up more paint, I just use the paint that I already have on my paintbrush and flick up. And now I go, The lines are important here. You see that? I'm looking my brush now the other way, and I'm following the curve of the I. I'm adding a little bit of definition under the eye, and here I'm using just the tip tip of the of the brush. Now I did did my brush in the water and I diluted the paint just to add a little bit of shadow so you can decide whether to add eyelashes under the I. I'm just gonna leave it like this 6. *Part 4 UPDATE* FULL LUSH EYELASHES: This is a little update on how I paint lush lashes. So with acrylic paint. Now, there was nothing wrong with the first technique, but this is another technique that will make painting on a lush lashes lot easier. I'll be introducing a new medium that we'll be adding into our acrylic paint. That will make acrylic paint a little bit thinner, a little bit easier to blend. So it's this product here. Maybe you've heard of it. It's from Golden. It's actually a glazing liquid, but it is great for blending and extending your drying time. I actually prefer it than using water. You could still use water, but with water, the water will evaporate and the acrylic paint will just dry a lot faster. And I'll be showing you how to use it with the acrylic paints. Alright, so let's start. I'm going to use the black. This is the same block that I use in the project. And I'm going to be using titanium white. This time I have a 50 brush. It's around TTIP brush for acrylic paint. You can use almost any round tip to brush. And the important thing is that the tip is appointee. And then I'm just gonna take out this palette knife before that mixing. For this painting, i'm gonna make her lashes less black and that's where they titanium white comes in. I'm going to make her lashes more of a dark gray. So I'm just going to mix in the white and the black until I get to the gray shade that I'm looking for. Now, if you like the full unblocked, you can just use black on its own. But for this painting, I just figured I wanted a software look. Little tip I have today is to use palette knives when mixing acrylic paint. I don't always do it, but I try to do it because when you use your paint brushes, it's usually destroys your paint brushes. So if you can use a palette knife is just a lot better. Alright, when I'm happy with my color, I'm just going to add a little bit of this medium. And actually when I read the directions, the ratio doesn't matter. So you can use as much or as little, but I like to use usually 50-50. I find using the 50% acrylic paint to 50% of this, a glazing liquid is a good ratio. It doesn't then the paint out too much. So I'm just going to mix that in really well. And then when I'm ready, I'm gonna take my paintbrush. I'll just with the wet the tip a bit. And I'm going to practice. I always do this before actually going on my painting because as you know, acrylic paint is a little bit more difficult to erase after. And because they are lashes, I just want to get it right the first time. So I'm just going to practice the paint consistency. I'm going to just practice the brushstrokes. Then when I feel comfortable and confident, then I will apply these brushstrokes onto my painting. Here's where I'm just going to lay my arm onto the table, get comfortable, breathe. I'm going to align her lash line to start. And I'm taking very small brush strokes. This will ensure that I will get it right the first time. This is all in real time. So I figured you're seeing the, the reality. A lot of tutorials might be a little bit sped up and sometimes you don't see the reality of the process. But I just wanted to show you the time that it takes me to apply the paint. And now I'm going to go in for the eyelashes. So starting from one corner, I'm just going to earth the line. And I'm gonna make a very small curve's going to the left. So I lashes needs to be curved. As I approach the center though, the line will be less curved. And now that I'm heading towards the other direction to the right, I'm going to start curving the eyelashes the other way. And I'm just going to follow the curvature of the eye. And as you see, I'm just taking a quick sweeping motions and just trying to think about it too much. And also, I find that you just need to flick your brush and not go over the line too many times or once the line is there, you just need to leave it. And that will give your lashes the most natural look and most painterly look, I think two. And I'm just gonna go in and add a few more lashes. Because I want her lashes to be superficial. I'm going for this sixties style painting. I'm just going to add a little bit more paint to the edge of her lash line and fill up her lash line and make it a bit darker. So this is a sixties inspired. I, so I am adding a lot of darkness and I do add a little bit more eyelashes to her bed if you can add as little or as much eyelashes to your painting. This is just my process of how I add full lashes. And I turn out to go overboard and I think I'm just going to stop there. So in this project, I didn't add the bottom lashes to the big ICT fairy. But for this painting, I will add some Laura lashes. So this will be an extra technique if you want to add Laura luscious to your paintings. So I went in with my white and I'm just going to add a little bit more color on her lower lash line. And because it's a sixties style painting, she usually they have this white makeup under there, so I am emphasizing that lash line, so it is optional, you can add it or not. And I'm going to emphasize the lower lash line by adding a very light gray line on top of that. Just want to emphasize that lash line and little bit more. So I'm going to put a little bit more white. But then I will blend it all in with a lighter gray. And I'm just going to lightly go over the white line and just sort of make a shadow under her lash line. So now we're ready to paint on those lower lashes. So again, a very short strokes going downwards, always with a curve. And these lashes are going to be a little bit shorter, a little bit more apart. So here I did make a little mistake, and because I used to that glaze, I could quickly erase it. So you do have more time to erase those little mistakes. So I basically took a little wet paper towel and wipe it off quickly. And there you go. It comes off very easily. And the curves are the same. You have to curve more towards the right. But when you're going towards the inner eye and then more towards the left as you curve outside of the eye. And I think I'm just going to speed up the process here a bit. I went a little bit overboard with the lower lashes on the corner. So I'm going to just erase that again and I'm just going to wave my paper towel and remove a bit of those eyelashes on the corner. And that's why I love this medium so much. Because you do have a little bit more time just to remove those parts that you don't like. When you're painting. Just at home. It should be an enjoyable process. And, you know, you just need to take your time and you have to just breathe through it. It is a little bit more stressful when you're videotaping all your braze says, this is how slow the process is when you are painting and those small details. And to say that I'm not enjoying this process. I am because I just, I love painting eyes in general. So I am having a lot of fun painting these lashes. And I'm just trying to take my time. And now I'm just stepping back. And I just noticed that I just want to emphasize her eyelash line again because it's a 60 style type of makeup look. So this is optional. You do not have to add to this detail. If you want to keep it simple, you can just avoid this little detail, but I just wanted to include it. See my whole entire process for this. I and here I did add a little tiny bit of water just to soften up that line. So you can still use water. You just have to use a just a tiny bit to blend. Okay. I totally just could have stopped there and the I would've been just nice, but I could be a little bit of a perfectionist. And, you know, this is one of the things that when it comes to painting, it's better not to be. But here I am just, I just wanted to deemphasize that Lash, the lower lash line. So I'm just going to soften it up by adding a little bit more white on top of that. And then I'm just gonna go in with a very light gray and just make the lash line a little bit thinner. And then I'm going to apply a little bit of a white dots on top just as like a little tiny highlights. By hope you enjoy it. That updated lush lashes technique. You could use this new technique if you like. Both techniques work. This is just an easier way. And if you want to try a new medium to blend in those lashes easier and make your life easier than I recommend you try out this technique. So I hope you continue the class. Please share your artwork. I would love to see what you come up with. 7. Part5: POUTY LIPS&NOSE: now onto the lips and nose here, Um, using a zinc white acrylic paint. This is a translucent color. These are the past ALS pinks that will be using and this pink as well. So I am going to start with the upper lip. I just add on the color the pastel color. I just color it on. And this is where my technique comes in. I take my paintbrush, dip it into the zinc white, and I dab it on to the color. And as you can see it is, is becoming into paint. So I take some more white, and I just mix it on to the lower lip. And as I smooth on the paint, the the paint with the pastoral mixes together, and it creates your very own acrylic paint. I love this method. Uh, it makes acrylic painting so much easier, and it just gives that soft effect. So that is my secret. Now I'm going to take the charcoal pencil again, and I'm going just to add the definition and again, I'm gonna blur it out with my paintbrush. Ah, I didn't really add any paint here. I just blurted out with my weight my wet paintbrush. Now I'm just going to lighten it up by adding the zinc white again because it's transparent . Um, it's not. Oh, pack. You could still see the color underneath. I'm just layering the white. This creates a subtle highlight. Now I'm taking my beloved skin color here, and I'm just tapping it onto the nose and that I take again the translucent white and I just blend in the pastel with the acrylic color, and I just move my paintbrush wherever I need the color to be. So you know, you could even use your fingers, your paintbrush. I I tend to go back and forth here. I just I want to add a little bit more white. I'm adding a little subtle highlight, and then I take my charcoal pencil again and I add, um, darkness to the nostrils. I'm adding a little bit of definition there, and then again, I will blend it out with my brush. I just added a like a tiny, tiny bit of paint and water to blend it out, and just with the paint that already had on my paintbrush, I'm adding a little bit of that darkness, um, around the nose bridge to create a little bit of that shadow. I do like to add a little bit of pink onto the nose. I just get I think it gives, um, these little pixie girls a little touch of innocence, and I just think it's cute. So go ahead and add a little bit of pink if you wish or not. So now I'm adding my first touches. A very subtle highlights. I added to all the places of the face that pops out, So that would be the chin, the apples of the cheeks. And as you can see with the translucent white, which is zinc white, it really is translucent. And it's not as bold as the Opa quite would be. Although I do go back in with the OPEC White, but we'll see that in a moment. So here I'm just leering again with the white. I don't blend it in as much, and as you can see, it does pop out more, and I'm just gonna add a little bit of some highlights onto the forehead because the forehead is rounded and that pops out to Seoul. Just blended that in with my finger. If you're liking these videos, Please leave me a little review. It really does help me out and onto the next lesson. 8. Part6: ABSTRACT FLOWERS: the's air, the pinks that I will be using. But you can use any pink or any other color for that matter off pastels that you have. And I'm going to start with e darker pistol and I'm going to darken up the middle. I'm just going to draw short lines from the center and go around the rose. And then I take the lighter pink, and just under the darker lines, I will just simply draw lines. I draw a little bit of the outer edge, and then I take my zinc white, which is the translucent acrylic paint. And then for this you can take basically any paintbrush you have and smudge it in to the color. As you can see, the colors will be mixing it together. I'll take a little bit more of my paint and I'll just go over the pastels. And as you can see, it just creates this beautiful blended look. All right, now we're gonna take the titanium white. This is the OPEC white, and what this is going to do is add a little bit of more of an OPEC color to your rose. So you're going to be highlighting the pedals. Now you can add as much white as you want. I probably added a little bit too much here, So here, I'm trying to blend it out. And, um, as you can see, it really lightens down the color. Now, if you did go overboard, you couldn't a simply wipe off the color. Um, if it's still wet, or, um, you could Once the paint is dry, you can just go over it again with your pastels and odd, um, more pigment to the rose and then just go over with the titanium white and, um, work over it. But I'm just gonna leave it like that for now. So onto the next flower, um, here, I'm going to do sort of like a daisy like flower. And I chose, like, a warmer pink just to to just to make a make it a little bit different, um, at a little bit of interest. And then I take the lighter, uh, pink. This is thes two pinks air still in the warm family. And then I just take my is in quite which is the translucent. Wait. And now I'm gonna smudge it into those pedals, so I'm gonna take my paintbrush and I'm going to move towards the centre. I'm gonna brush each pedal towards the center. I'm trying to imitate like, a daisy shape. And these are very abstract florals, so I don't I don't really care if they're messy. I actually want them to look messy. That is the look that in trying to achieve here, and then I did my paintbrush into the titanium white, which is the more OPEC. Wait and I'm adding highlights not to all the pedals, maybe to the top pedals where the sun would hit. And then I'm gonna move onto my next flower. And here I decided to again a different, more brownie er pink. And I'm just fast forward in here because it's just the same techniques you can use any shape flower you like. These are just very obstruct roses, and it's always the same. I take my dark put in the lines than my lighter color put in the lines at the time. Um, these in quite first and then I go over with just a tad of highlights, probably to the outer edge or wherever I think the sun would hit it. And there you have it very simple. Rose is very easy to do with a great effect so you can leave the flowers like this, or you can go back and add little centers to each one by simply taking your pastel color and adding color to the centers and adding a little bit of paint on top. 9. Part7: BUTTERFLY MAGIC: Okay, so now on to our little butterfly. So I am using the Ivory Black once again and the pressure amusing is the rounded flat brush . It's actually number four, and I basically dip my paint with a little bit of water just to make it glide on a little bit smoother. And just so the black is not so dark. And I'm just following in the lines and color in it and it in. So it's always better to use, uh, very short strokes. I find it easier myself. Now I'm going to use the translucent white, which is the, uh, zinc weight. And I'm gonna push my paintbrush up at first to define those the top layer of the of the wing. And then so this is the top layer. I'm pushing it outwards. And then I point my brush downwards to define the lower layer of the the wing. So I just add a little bit of more white. The more white to add the lighter the butterfly will be now for the dots on the wings. I did change my brush. This is a more rounded brush, appointee. Rounded brush a number two, but you can use any pointed brush you have. It really doesn't matter as long it's ah pointy. And you can achieve these little dots. And I do use now the opa quite the titanium white. As you can see, the white is very oh, pack. And it does pop up more. And if you want those dots to really pop out, um, you need to use the titanium await. So I just add on those dots wherever I please. So I'm gonna take that same brush, and now I'm going to define the body of the butterfly and I'm using the ivory block again. And I just basically trace out that line and I will just connect the wings to the body and I'll just try to blend in that color. I'll try just to to find the wing a little bit more. I'm just sort of using the every black with a little bit of water and I define the body. I pop on the head and there you have it. A beautiful butterfly 10. Part8: ABSTRACT HAIR & FINAL HIGHLIGHTS: Okay, so let's start on the hair. We are going to trace out the strands of hair with the black charcoal and the hair color, Um, sort of going to remain the background color sort of this gray, and we're going to be very loose with the hair. It's sort of just gonna be this abstract mane of hair. And so now I'm just gonna go over around the hand, just define it, go around the face and now very lightly with my finger. I'm just going to blend out that line just with my finger is fine. Just so it's not so harsh. So here I'm just adding some more strands. You cannot strands wherever you think needs it. This is you could just play around at this point, I had a little bit more strands there around the face. Now I'm gonna take, um, my white pastel color, and I'm going to add some highlights to the hair. So just on the outer edges there, wherever the hair has movement, and then I just again blended out with my finger. I'll just add a little weight around the curve around the, uh, the edges there, um, whoever I think, Ah, highlight is needed. It sort of adds definition and the hair is not so gray Now it's becoming served like like a latest agree. So here I'm just defining, like around the butterfly added a little bit of shading. And with a very small brush, I do take the zinc wait, which is the OPEC weight, and I'm adding the final highlights to the face. So I added a little bit onto the lips, the top in the bottom lip, and I just tap out the color with my finger. I don't want the dots to be too bright, too harsh. So just apply the zinc GOPAC white to the tip of the nose, for example, and then tap it out with my finger. Um, just at the corner, edges of the eyes, which is really pretty will give that very like effect. Ah, little bit under the water line of the I. I'd like to add a little sparkles to the apples of her cheeks. I mean, you could do this or not these air, just my own personal touches that I like to add to my fairies. I think it gives it this, uh, the real look and then to the bottom, I sort of have a little bit of pink to the hair. I mean, this is so optional. You could do it or not. I just I did sort of like this gray ombre effect where starts out gray and then it finishes off pink. I mean, I I sort of decided to do that at the last minute, but you could just leave it all Garay if you want. And if you feel like you need to define the hair more, just take your block, trickle pencil, and at the hair strands, where of you feel like it needs it. And then I added some white sparkles with appointed paintbrush and my zinc white, and I splash on dots just above the wing forever. I feel I want sparkles. And speaking of sparkles on to the next part, adding glitter, This is my favorite part. 11. Part9 FLAKE PROOF GLITTER & WHAT NEXT?: Let's add some sparkle to this beautiful ferry. So we're gonna start off with by using this gloss gel and do not use your fingers. I use a spatula for this or you can use anything else to apply the gloss. So here I'm adding it to just to the edge of her cheek bones and after I decided to add it even to her temples, but that's totally optional. And here I use two types of glitter, a gold and a white. But you can easily just used one color of glitter if you wish. So I go with the white glitter first. I tap it on top of the gloss. I tap it in with my spatula. And this part, I didn't film because I decided to add the gold a little bit later. But I do take my gold glitter and I added on top of the weight. Now, once I have all the glitter tapped in, you must wait till the gloss is completely dry. And then you take a very soft dry brush and you wipe off the extra glitter. If you wanted to add more sparkle to that area. Once it's dry, you can just go ahead and add the gloss on top of that. Add to the glitter on top of your gloss. Top it in wafer to dry. Once it's dry, take a dry soft brush and remove the excess glitter. And at first, when you add the gloss, it does seem thick and opec, but it will dry out to be clear and flat. So don't worry about that. And there you have it. It's as easy as that. Once the glitter is on with this gloss, it practically will not fall off. It is there to stay, and I just love this method. And congratulations. Bravo, bravo. Hope you enjoyed this video lesson. I can't wait to see your fairies. Please tag me on Instagram or share them in the class project here on skill share. 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