Acrylic Portrait Painting - Nose & Lips

1. Introduction: Hey guys, welcome to the painting classes. I am part of tundra. In this class, we are going to learn how to paint nose and lips using acrylic paints. Although the main concentration is on nose and lips, we are going to paint some part of cheeks and chin to an extent. And remember, this class is for beginners and intermediate students. So let's begin. 2. Painting stage 1: The painting should always be started with the darkest area first. That is like an unwritten rule in any painting. So here the darkest areas are at the end of the lip, the Pope, the lips, and nostril area. Once that is done, then move on to next darkest area. I mean, in a decreasing order. The most darkest is the first, then second most darkest. You can see the time I'm painting the shadow of the nose. So that is the, that is another point to be. Now keep in mind while painting nose and painting knows, the only thing which gives, knows that freedom, three-dimensional effect is its shadow. If you don't get the shadow right, then your nose, nose will look flat on a paper. They told him two-dimensional thing on a paper. So if you want to get three-dimensional off the nose, then they knew how to how to paint the shadow below the non nostril correctly. For skin tone, I am using the mixture of burnt umber, burnt sienna, yellow ocher, Gagnon weight, and a little bit of permanent orange. So for the shadow areas, I am the percentage of burned, burnt umber and burnt sienna is more for highlights below the lips where the ladies, ladies falling on our chins. The percentage of titanium, white and yellow ocher is mode. And the shadow area below the highlighted area. There, I have added little bit of permanent orange into the mixture. I'm taking a larger brush to fill out the blank areas. The percentage of yellow ocher is more when I'm painting the highlighted chin area. Remember, this stage is only about blocking the colors. This is still a stage one. And you do need not go entirely crucial level detailing and other things. You just he just plays what color you see on your reference photo and paint it. That's all. You can ask. Why am painting the entire lower, lower part of the face? In order to, in order to teach painting of nose and lips. But in painting, the values of your particular subject is determined by the value beside it. If you, if you paint, if you paint white on a white surface, you can't see it. But if you paint white, decided a gray surface, then you know, how much weight do you need? In the same case for dark also, if you paint, if you paint only dark paint, you will see that it is more dark. But once it is, it is compared beside it, highlighted surface, then you will know how much dark or how much light do you need in order to know how much you value or how much contrast I need for nose and lips, it is important to paint the area around it. And the area around nose and lips is nothing but chin and cheeks. Of course I'm not painting the T9 takes in detail. I'm just putting down the main colors to just determine the values of nose and lips. So it's not like I'm painting the skin, skin tone in a perfect way. 3. Painting stage 2: Welcome to stage two of the painting. Once you have painted the basic layer of the painting, the next stage is to add whatever the extra details you want to add to it. So here I am adding much more highlights for the chin and the area below the nose. You can see that I'm using larger, larger brush for painting the larger areas. And small brushes for painting the tiny areas. To create the wrinkles off the skin. You should take care of shadows, shadows, highlights, or the one we chose W just wrinkles and everything in your painting. So while painting the shadows of the skin wrinkles, remember that the shadows are not having single color or single value. At the middle of the shadow, it will be having the darkest value around it. It will be gradually merging towards the midtone and towards the highlights. So the shadow is not a single value or a single color. So always have that. Transitional colors are transitional values ready in your palette, which will save your painting, save your time. And those are the game changes in your painting. To paint the second layer, you can see that the painting is emerging from a color dump. It is, it is becoming an actual painting in this stage because you are adding those transitional mid tones, shadows and highlights and you're blending them. And remember, never over blend anything in your painting. Or blending is a mistake of armatures. It's it's better to leave it leave it like Apache area than or blending it. In the patchy areas. It's easy to transition from patchy area to blending Dan to over blend and make it much more worse. I'm just adding the highlights and details of the nose. The more you keep on adding the details, the more the painting becomes natural. More often than not, nose looks like a separate entity on a face. It's like noses and object, which is placed on Paste. That's what it looks like in many of the paintings. I mean, in many of the beginners paintings, there should not be the case. Usually that happens because we always tend to draw a defining line to indicate the nodes. You should not do that. It's like the nose more oftenly should blink to the face. I mean, the part of the face like cheeks. So here I am painting with tones above the reference later had drawn for nose. And blending is not mixing of colors. It's the smooth transition from shadows to make tones and midtones to highlights. 4. Painting lips: Just like nose for painting lips also, you should start from the shadows. And the darkest shadow is, is where the upper lip meets the lower lip. It's like a tiny ln of shadow, which turns to and then the next two darkish shadow will be either will be at the tip of the lips. Because it's, it's called backwards. Like it's a bulge where the center part of the lips is in the front and it goes backwards as it goes to end off the lips on either side. So lips will be highlighted at the center. And then the shadows will be on either side of the, on either end of the lips. And then the shadow of upper lips is always, will always be there on lower lips at this age. And lower lips will be even more highlighted. The center. I'm using a zero number, round brush to add those shadows and make it look like more natural color. The first stage, I had blocked the lips with the only permanent orange with a tiny bit of titanium white mixed burnt umber along with permanent orange to give the dark slightly darker shade. Lips also doesn't have a defining line to separate it from chin. Or the next part of the skin color which is inserted. Here. In this reference, you have somewhat defining features because, because the person who is in the reference photo is wearing lipstick, are there ways in a natural looking lips, there will be no defining lane. You can see that M naught am not painting the main highlight of the lower lip, that is the white light, which is falling on the lower lip because that is the most highlighted part of the lips. And that should be drawn at the very end. You can see that I am, I am trying to merge the lips to the skin below it. It's lake and blurring the lines between those two. So there will be no defining line like a solid B. Finally, defining line between the skin and the lips. 5. Conclusion: And then I add some more details here and there for cheeks, chin. And I can go another layer if I want, for the skin tone, for achieving skin tone and many details, the more, if you feel like you want to add more details, you want to make it more realistic. You can be adding as many layers as you want, because acrylic paints dry quickly. So the momentum you paint, it is ready for next layer. Next layer also. And also should be aware that I'm painting on a medium green Canvas where I can't go in for much details. So for detailing and much more realistic car, much more detailed painting, you how to, how to go for smooth surfaces like fine-grain Canvas. For any artist. The biggest question is, when do I stop painting? When do I think that the painting is finished? That's the question only. Each individual artists can answer himself. Painted nose and lips for two layers. And I think this is enough. I think for practice sessions, this much retailing is enough. So I'm stopping here. Thank you for watching.