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Cartoon Watercolor Portraits: Female Character Creation - Sketch, Line Art Inking, Copic Shading

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:11

    • 2.

      Drawing a Pretty Face - Draft & Facial Features

      9:21

    • 3.

      Drawing a Pretty Face - Inking & Lineart

      4:54

    • 4.

      Drawing a Pretty Face - Shadings

      6:14

    • 5.

      Watercolor Portrait - Technique 1

      3:00

    • 6.

      Watercolor Portrait - Technique 2

      2:49

    • 7.

      Watercolor Portrait - Technique 3

      2:49

    • 8.

      Watercolor Portrait - Technique 4

      3:19

    • 9.

      Watercolor Portrait - Technique 5

      2:48

    • 10.

      Complete Timelapse Example 1

      7:13

    • 11.

      Complete Timelapse Example 2

      5:10

    • 12.

      Next Courses

      0:14

    • 13.

      Featured Class: Lips Painting

      1:49

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This class will show you the whole process to create beautiful female portraits drawn from a reference and rendered in a cute cartoon style.

Interested only in portrait sketching and inking? 

Watch videos 1 to 5 + 10 and 11

Interested only in water color?

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* If you want to use my line art, print it at home and paint on it, download the package here *

Material for this course

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  • Watercolor Paper Pad
  • Watercolor Kit
  • Waxed Paper for color mixing
  • Brush Set
  • Line Art Markers
  • Thick Grey Shading Markers

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When I ask to my family and friends, they say I'm a diversified person. I do arts, yes, but I'm also passionate about sports, writting, programming and pedagogy. I deeply believe that every human being should expand his skills and interests in several fields! We are not supposed to be repeatedly doing only one thing for the rest of our lives! We need to go out and learn new stuff, get out of our comfort zone and start being more than just one thing!

Here on skillshare, I think I can share my knowledge about digital arts and drawing, and I can also learn a lot. Knowledge is now accessible more than ever, and I really hope my input here will bring good value to your life!

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1. Intro: Hi, everyone. I'm if it be today, I'm gonna teach you how to draw beautiful pretty faces like those in the first part of the class. You will learn how to sketch of face position the facial features into a good Leinart. In the second face, you're gonna see how to color your portraits using watercolor they're not really gonna need for discourse is watercolor paper path. Make sure that your paper is really ticked, so won't become wavy when you put water on it. Some men's ills for sure to do your draft in any razor, then fans markers to do. Did Leinart make sure top different thickness. You will also need larger markers to due to shading. The difference is that those markers have really take brushes. Make sure to have a variant your tone to facilitate your shading. For the next part, you lied watercolor kit with different those that you can have a nice pellets to afford to do too much mixing. Make sure to also ask some brushes off different sizes. So before we get going, make sure to follow all my social pages and then 2. Drawing a Pretty Face - Draft & Facial Features: all right, so let's get started with Official Element and our drop. All right, so just you keep your reference close to you. So let's start by using some geometric shapes to place the facial features at their right place. I always start with a circle, are in a vertical line, which just show DEA symmetry. Axis off the face are depending off the buster off your character. You will made this vertical line more or less inclined just to make sure you have the writing. Go for the face 90 degrees. You'll draw on horizontal line, which represented the top off the eyebrows. So now you said that your circle is divided into let's take approximately the same size as after circle and draw a line under the circle, which represent the chin are the nose will be presented by a small circle as well, which is just intersection off your big circle and your vertical line. The distance between the nose and the chin can be divided in tree and the mill part. You can draw a rectangle over it, which is the mouth I Later you'll do details. Now you want to drop those side off to face ESU can use to other vertical lines, but they can be inclined in a word, just a little bit. And for the jaw lines, while depending off your character, there'll be more less inclined. Your change of slope eso Let's say for a lady, you'll have a face that this may be a more V shaped, a soft V, but for man is gonna be much more like a square, so the chin would be larger as well. I Once you're done with this counter, let's place the eyes. Eso You will trace another horizontal line between de elbow lines and nose, and you're gonna have to Oh, veils on this line, just Teoh position damn correctly, like diem inside Part of the oval Should be are concomitant with decided the nose basic and 40 years is also to avails, but they are like elongated on the horizontal access, and the top off the ear is at the bottom off the eyes and the bottom of the here's is other , but I'm of the nose as well. Okay, so now that everything is on place, it's time to start designing a little more. All the features before you get into really detailing. Nose the mouth. Just make sure that the things are at their right place. It's really important to build your face in a way that it say, like logic and that necessarily realistic because depending of the type of the Rohingya gonna make gonna play with proportion and you're gonna move, uh, lemons here and there. But they should respect the extend our position unless you draw Canadian. So how do you detail all the features? Well, for that, it's really going to depend on your reference because depending off the position of the head, it's going to change a lot, for it is drawing. Their character is really facing us. So we have quite a good symmetry, and the point of view is kind off a little bit below her. So this is why are knows as this shape. So we kind of are just lube it on the nose. Eso It's quite a flat line, but let's say you would be I'm on top off the nose. Well, then those would look more like a triangle. All right, now you're seeing me detailing the eyes. This character has a lot of makeup and that actually helps. I really like to draw. Gal's would make up to get good at drawing eyes because it's making all the A I features really detailed, so it's kind of easier to get them. I sue a nice just like normal, but, uh, it's not perfectly symmetrical, like center corner case against 80 Corner of the Eye, which is closer to D knows well, there's always like a little coma looking just like Goma, um, that you can drop decisions that you don't draw the eyelashes right now are just make link basic shaved that true present them simplified the shape student maximum because really like the eyelashes are probably the last thing you want to draw on your drawing. Um, it's just like a little touch up again, but at the end, but make sure you reserved a space for them. Our once you've got the idea, nose the mouth while you're ready to build the rest off your drawing. It's really important to first posicion ice nose, mouth, detail them and then only build arrest because for me, like all the life for drawing is really our interface. So if if the eyes, nose and mouth are not satisfying the rest of the drawing will not be good. So make sure that they are done the way you want. Once you're done with this, well did. Necked for a lady. The neck will be much dinner, of course, and men, and depending off Amish stylization you put in your drawing. The neck will be more or less take. So, let's say, for this one, uh, the neck is approximately facing the four pills off. Dear guys, I could be even a little thinner and loose fit with the kind of drawing, which it's not completely realistic. Kind of a little cuter. Uh, then I'm going with the hair, and it's really a funding to draw the air. And just like for the eyelashes, you should not draw every strand individually, never one by one. Always try to make it big shape. Simply fight. And then only later again, you can draw little details, a couple of strength here and there, just as a final touch. Um, as I'm drawing the hair as well. All right, you said that I'm trying Teoh off a flowing movement in my pencil because hair is just like one material flowing, so I tried to imitate it with my movement, probably remarked that for the draft, I'm using a lot of little lines. Um, some artists don't recommend. Dismissed. Did they say you should draw one? This is if lying for your comforter. I'm not of that school. I believe that when you're drafting, you don't exactly where the Fisher will be. All right. They may change a little bit. So for me, I prefer to draw with little lines. Which kind of lows? Me to change the position off it. What I'm drawing a until I decide to final position off every feature. But that's up to you. But a friendly, lesser line is the best. Getting closer to the end of the drawing. I'm gonna draw the iris of the eye. It's really going to give the life to the drawing, so make sure also and that they are looking in the same direction. If you don't want to have this, are Corey feeling? Ah, and always keep a little space for the eventual reflection in D I, which is going to bring a lot off life drawing eso. You can try different angles for the eyes. The 1st 1 I made the first time I made the character look directly at us. But it does not always rinder good. So sometimes I prefer the character looking away that in distance, so it kinds of feel more arts artistic. So it's something you can experiment. So just make sure everything is on place before you move onto the next. A step which will be thinking because once ink isn't drawing, you cannot go back. So it's really a time right now to raise again, move things. If you're not satisfied with, do it again and don't feel bad about it. It's OK to just I redo it in a better way if you're not satisfied. Otherwise, you're drawing will keep this same aspect for the rest, um, off your work, so make sure it's at the right place and elastic you can use. If you have a mirror at home, you can have your drawing in front of you and look at it in the mirror, and normally you will see immediately what is wrong with the drawing. Like if something is not in the right place, you re market very, very efficiently using district, so make sure everything is at the right place and then ready for the next step 3. Drawing a Pretty Face - Inking & Lineart: Leinart Now so forth this part you will need some dark markers are make sure to have different thickness is going to be much more interesting for the aspect. If you're drawing, um, to draw your lines, you will need to be much more concentrated than for do draft because you have Onley one shins. Your line must be at the right place from the first shot. Otherwise you're missing it up. Okay. Don't stress too much. We're still doing art should be fun. I am with you. As you see For this barred light, I put my face really close to the drawing to make sure like the point of the pen is exactly the right place. If you do down bigger, full with your neck Sometimes drawing a long time is very stressful for the neck. Find ways to have better posture and good desk and sometimes even a little stents. If you want you, I have your your paper inclined. In order to make your Leinart interesting, you will vary due with and Thean intensity of dark areas. Right now on the drawing. You're seeing that do corner of the mouth. I've put a little dark triangles same thing for the eyes where we know. Well, after the eyelash, I put a line that it's really dark and ticker. Um, is just making sure that you're gonna see the facial features from far. And those are the element that are really important into drawing. So you have to make sure that we see them clearly, um 40 Leinart for sure you don't want to draw little lines really want to have a flowing line? He wanted to be clean. Um, and and the advice I can give you to make good lines is just first practice on another sheet of paper. So just do a couple of straight lines, just you make your fingers and arm kind of fused to the movement, and then when you're doing it on your final drawing, all right, it's okay to take your when you're breathing, and then you're tracing you Brit out. Okay, so you're trying to be, like, really regular end away, yet you're doing things, and also you don't want to draw everything. You want to show the basic shapes, but not all the details, because all the details will be broke later by their shading and color I really like. It's just giving the structure to your drawing and not all the details. Yet you see that I'm not starting to draw the air. And just like before, I'm still using a very flowing movement because the air is a material that really do some waves. Some curl some twist, so you try to imitate it with your movement. I'm using a figure marker, which is really dark, because, as we said, hair is kind of bulky. It's a big mess on the out of the character, so you don't want to have too many details because it's kind of distracting from the main subject. So you just want to fill all the space that is taken by year with the lines that are flowing curly, wavy as you wish. Also, we could kind of say that I'm already putting some shading in the air because get if needed , to understand really the movement of the year. So this is something I draw as I go with the air, Um, and later I will put more shooting in a in another state. So finally you will have little details to add. Here is just a clothing because It's kind of a lacework with a lot, a lot of Neil details, so I take time to do it the right way here. So when you're almost done with your Leinart last thing to look at this do global aspect if you're drawing, is it the way you wish? And one thing is good is that if you made all your Leinart with a thin, thin worker, you still after chance to make it larger and correct your little mistake with dicker marker so that would be lasting. I look for before I move on to the next stage, in on the shadows, just to paper for the next stage, you can erase what's less from your pencil and advise. Just make sure that the ink is dry before doing it. If you don't want to have big stains on your drawing. 4. Drawing a Pretty Face - Shadings: time to put some death on this drawing with the shading are 40 shooting. I'm using some kind of cheap copy marker, so they are not the most expensive you can find. I found that the cheaper one are actually going quite well in any way. Those markers. They never last so long because we used them too much. So that's OK to save a little money and buy the one that are not too expensive. Um, for two shading. I'm using different tones off. Great. I'm going with something very, very light in the beginning because it's always easier to add darker shades than you remove them from the paper. Um, I would also say that this stage is not necessarily a mandatory if you wish. You can just paint directly to shading with the color. But I would prefer to have really, like all the black and white and great and great work on the one drawing because I can be used is drawing somewhere else and for other purposes. So this is why I'm doing distance. So I'm starting with the eye because it's kind of easy to living to make up with the shading, and it's going to really bring life to destroying quite quickly. Some area, like the lips, generally have a flat collar. Um, so I use a very pale great and then for the corners, I add a little bit off a darker great for sure with the shading. I will not put color everywhere on the drawing. I will keep a lot of places completely white, but unless it that the important features they need to be shown by by the shading, um for sure you're shitting will depend a lot on your lining as well. So for this one, I'm using my reference, and I'm kind of just getting inspired by delight it as on that drawing. But if you get really good, you can decide if a new angle for delight and start from fresh completely. Just putting the shades at their right logical place just by experience, are for this drawing. You see that and the light is quite frontal and uniforms, so there's no very dark places on. The drawing would kind of see all the future. All the face are very clearly, and the face is quite pale as well. So I suppose there's a lie that is frontal and maybe a little bit on top of the character. It means that my shadows will be a little bit under the nose of the RCMP, eyes under the chin and light under every line you can find. Basically, I think it's important to say also that this paper is ready. Take if you draw on paper, that is dinner. I would socialize that you make some tests with your shading markers before otherwise it can completely wet your drawing, and you'll be kind of surprised at the result, and it can be undone. So make sure that you made your test and you're kind of no weighing what to expect when you're starting to drop. Uh, you see that drawing here at some kind of bluish atmosphere is just When you get the kids off marker, you can have those for, like gray just really grayish shadows blue, green or red shadows so you see that can have a different look, and you can make makes as well, for it is drawing. I kept on Lee do blue shadows. I think I went to the with the same, a positive called as we said earlier, while we inked our drawing. We would not put dark black lines everywhere because the shading is kind of doing to work for us. Uh, you see, like I didn't trace lines around the nose for its old length. But the fact that there are some shading close to the I you know, I kind of guess very clearly What? Where would be the lines off the nose? Eso is just the shooting that isn't going us to see that when starting and drawing from a white page. I'm talking only about the shadings and not the I lights because I can just add more darkness. I cannot remove, uh, darkness or add white on a drawing like this with ink. This is why I'm talking about the shadows. And but if you were, if you were in computer, he could add white instead off I think black to create the shadows. Um, also like the type of shadows you will use, which could be like very art or a little softer will change a lot to look off your drawing because you can make it more card any more realistic. Um, it's really going to depend off the type of Flynt's that you use. It's very personal to your preference and a personal taste. So let's the check time for D. D Isis. As you saw, I did not intend them before. All right, It's quite difficult for me not to follow exactly the work floor. The work process that I teach you. I kind of go here and there. I have a general order off the actions I do. But sometimes I skip one to do it later, and that's OK. Don't really won't work like a Roberts. Kenneth, I need you keep some intuition in its but be organized as well. 5. Watercolor Portrait - Technique 1: Ah, some the exciting part is starting now. The color eso you see that they're drawing is already you need to do some preparation before starting to apply to colors. Make sure to have a glass of water or bowl. Here is some kind of washed paper, and I'm using it to do my collar mix because it doesn't absorb the liquid so the water really stays on top of this paper. So before putting the colors on your drawing, just experiment with your palette of color. Find some colors that will fit together, and that's your light. Are if you're after your watercolor kid with a lot, A lot of colors. Maybe you already have the perfect right tone, but if you don't, you will need to do some mixing. And it's really just by experimenting that you'll get the color that you wish our remember also, that the color here are is really intense. But when you put it as watercolor on your drawing, it will not be that intense. So their first technic I'm teaching to you is painting by Hurriyah. What I do is I'm using a large, thick brush to put water everywhere on the area where I want to apply the color. I'm starting with the skin color as well, so I'm just wedding might. Paper wit. Dis large brush. And don't be afraid to put a lot of water. And when it's wet, you just with a little bit of color on that. In this way, you're making sure, actually, that the color won't spill out off the wet area. It's very powerful for death, so it's kind of really precise. Are if your brush your big brushes not precise enough, you can still complete the water covering by a more precise, more accurate brush with a little tip. When you put the colors on you, just use a little pigment here and there. That's totally okay. If you don't ever absolute uniform distribution of the color because we're doing water color, it would be kind of boring if it's a really flat and uniform color. Well, you make sure there there's like no big white old anywhere, but doesn't have to be equal equal. It's actually beautiful when you see places where the color is more intense, or where you kind of see the line off where the color is kind of finishing. So it's a one of the nice aspect off the water color, so you can just add a little more color when you're ready here and there. And I think that's you see, they're still like your big water reflection. You can wait a little bit for it to dry, uh, or it can move to the next every year when you're ready. 6. Watercolor Portrait - Technique 2: Okay. The next technique I'm gonna show you are it's completely compatible with the 1st 1 that we saw I'm going to do with for the air here. Eso Right now I'm preparing my color makes I'm gonna use some pink and, um, blue in order. Tried like being purple cooler air Really foot Foucher air. So, as you see, I'm still using the same large brush to wit, the section of the drawing where the air are. And again I'm putting color here and there and I don't paint. I'm just kind of dropping colors in the right area and you'll see me do it in a minute. What I'm doing is I'm taking my drawing and I'm putting it in a vertical position So the water kinds of drip and goes down. So you see that the top of the error is much wider and all the pigment is tired of falling down the air. Of course, you could do to contrary by just holding your drawing. Indeed, other direction. And this is what I'm called drooping or spilling. You just used the fact that you're pigment is liquid and that it's moving to fill out all the area and to create some very fluid flow. You'll see that I'm adding more pigment afterward because it can take different front of figuration to make sure to. I have exactly the caller that you wish. Um, and since this paper is also so, tickets kind of possible for me to paint when I'm holding to drawing vertically, and it's really nice to see out. The pink is kind of sliding down the air following the curls are following. Actually the wit to wit part to offer off the paper. Um, if you didn't use so precise area would see it's really interesting to see out of pigment is expending. You can make some tests before going on with your final drawing. I should. It's a very good thing to experiment. Just you know how water color will react because it's not like acrylic like the color doesn't stay where it is. It's kind of, I don't know, escaping. Howard say a lot. You've eso. It's really the kind of friend, and you need to practice just before so you can kind of guess or expect or understand how the color working, how it will move away from apart to another in your drawing 7. Watercolor Portrait - Technique 3: All right. So we have this skin we after air. Um, so right now I'm going to you to rate another round off color and detail to make sure I have t aspect that I won't are really? You'll see that watercolor is all about water. You just have to put a lot a lot off water, and the power of water is diluting. So the more water you put, the water it becomes, and a grating with water is that I can always put mawr, and then you can just use a stamp. Port uses Scott Hello to you. I take out the excessive water, and that's the technique I call erasing colors because as long as you're drawing is not completely dry. If you put more water, you'll be able to deal ute our depict mint and absorb it with some. Ask a towel and come back with a whiter color so you're able to kind of remove the pigment even sometimes when it's dry, I can put water in a way a little bit and remove again. A part of the pigment. It's very powerful. Get kind of erase. Andi, get lighter colors. Um, something you have to be aware off. It's just not to put water everywhere. It's really important to have different ingredients off. Big meant intensity on your drawing. Eso you will use dis stickney to erase the color are for two reasons. 1st 1 you made a mistake and you want to remove the color. You put our or 2nd 1 to places where they'll be some highlights I solicit for dis drawing well Ah, the character will probably have some I light into four ads on the tip of the cheek on the nose. So there are the places where I would use more water to absorb the pigment and room. Remove it a little bit. You can also use a Spanish technique it without too much water just to create the shapes that you want with the pigments on your drawing. Finally, I would also like to emphasize the importance off keeping it clean water. You see that by just using your your brush here and there in the water At some point it gets a color Eso. If you want to dilute your drawing with colored water, well, you may have unexpected results s and just make sure you keep are very clean water. Most of the time 8. Watercolor Portrait - Technique 4: This next technique is called water color, layer and intensity. Um, you probably remarked that I'm putting colors at the same place many times. It's really an interpretive process because you want to use many layers off colors for the places where the pigment is really intense. Sometimes you can do it with just less water. But if in the beginning you use a lot of water with that much paler color, which is totally okay with war color because it's not always arteries that are very saturated, I'm but if you want to have some my lights and you're drawing or emphasize on some part off the facial features, you want to put more collars on it, so you will need many are round of many alterations of color that you put over and over again so you can create this intensity off course. Layering the color comes with at one. The seven days would sit, which is waiting. You kind of need to wait for the color to be really dry in between. Otherwise, it's kind of always dilute again with itself. But if you wait between every iteration off coloring, you'll see that it's creating a first very nice. Um, layer layering effect. So you see, like the borders offer every layer of color, and that adds to the text during in the rendering off your drawing, which is really positive in I give very artistic feeling to your drawing, and the other thing is that you'll see that the intensity is adding up so you'll see the great didn't off color layer by layer want above the other, which is also blowing you to have very intense colors on your drawing are you will especially need to wait if you going with pale colors because otherwise is just really not appearance. Our win painting With watercolor, you should always sing from lighter to darker, so it's better to have a pale, unsaturated drawing that's you make more bright, more saturated afterwards. Done to contrary because, well, though, you have to do it in process. If you wait completely for something to be dry, it's going to be hard for you to remove the color, but you can always add up more for sure it's taking time, but what practice is going to be more and more efficient? This is also something you can, um, restrict yourselves we see let's say I have one hour to put. The color is not more so. With time you get more efficient and you don't do too many layering and say, like towards really layering would be enough. You don't need to do war otherwise is just, like, not efficient. But it's also about having fun and feeling relaxed when you draw, so ideally, you will find the perfect place for you to put the colors on. 9. Watercolor Portrait - Technique 5: we are the final stage X cheering and Dutch shops are at this stage. You should be content with your color layers and all the great and that you have. And what will add basically are just lt'll drops here and there to create some Dexter's. I'm using it here to create the freckles on the cheek off this character. So what I do is I'm using a large brush. To be honest, I think did. Toothbrush is the best one for death on, and you're just using your finger. Um, like a spring. So, uh, the drops are falling on the drive. Eso you need to use a color that is probably little darker. Donetta once, and you will not need too much worry because you want a pigment to be quite condiments or quite intense are for that dignity. It's really adding a lot off Dexter on your drone are. When you're done with that, you will also on some highlights. For that, I recommend that you have some gel white marker. So it's something you can put really at d toll and after drawing, and you will ask yourself where would be the biggest reflection on my character I could be knows could be the air, Uh, the eyes here and there. And you will just use this white gel marker to I. I light those places and it's just a final touch of that Makes it look better. If you don't have Jell Marker, you can use brush with white painting. That's what I'm doing here. But there are not always. The white paint are not always take enough, and sometimes they just looked transparent. I guess it depends on the quality off off the painting that's rough. Um, if you don't after eating or if you don't actual market, you can also do it with I would pencils. It works quite well. It's kind of just like it past ellipse, really put some more material on top of your drawing. For sure you're drawing and painting must be dried before you add those stash up. Otherwise, are the paper will just be destroyed by by the point of Depends A, which is a really hard so that says that that that's the last stage. Depending off your artwork, you could decide to create a background. But for those one in particular, I think like the subject was really important. So this is why it was kept alone in de middle off the page 10. Complete Timelapse Example 1: So this is a full time lapse example because I wanted you to see again to process from A to Z. So this is what a completely different drawing. So I just chose another model, but you'll see that I'm following the same steps. I will not repeat all the steps here because I want to talk about another topic. But very quickly you start with geometric shapes. You put the I D. Nose the mouth. You make sure to correct the position off the futures on. Then you finish your draft, you ink you shade, and you put the colors so you'll see all that going for the next 345 minutes or so. But the main topic and wanted to talk about is abstraction versus realism in the water color. Because for sure, when we do portrait's we wanted to look like the model. We want to stick sometimes too much to a realistic appearance. But I'd say it's really good to take your distance from your reference and just to let yourself go with the flow and have some fun. Um, for example, you can try different colors. You can try to them to shape, salute bits. In my specific case. I like to look at realistic models, but bring some friend Izzy, for example. This drawing will end up being some kind of water Priestess instead of for just a young white girl s. So it for me, it's more funny, just you. That's a mystery or some fantasy drawing starting from our Radisic character. What I've got to say also is about, uh, like the stricture. If you're drawing, would the technique I've showed you? You see that it's really structure. You really have all the steps you have all the thinking process that makes the line very clean. So it's just, you know, like it's in the drawing or outside the drawing in your character, outside of character, or is the face or outside of the face. But it's It could be nice also to use our de Leinart, just like guides that are even are less defined. So you will just I emphasize a little bit on, like diagnosed a mild the ice and not make all the contours four the air. So you really let your color dictate, uh, the shape of the final drawing our final painting, For sure this is an advanced technique, so because you would not know in the beginning, exactly out look is just by playing with the material the medium painting that you'll be able to eventually get a final word that those just like you wish. And especially with quarter color, you don't have to follow exactly like the position of the colors. It's OK if the skin color it's a bit outside of the face on bond. It's OK if the shade is not perfectly right, or if the Kountouris kind of broken it adds to the style. So, really, to go with the abstraction, I would have come into you to do the contrary. So instead of drawing first, I would take a white paper, are put some water in it, some pigments and just do color spills on enough fun, putting drops and colors and pigment pigments everywhere and just let it dry. And then you look at it and try to see the face or character or something in it. And afterwards add some lines, not everywhere. Just here and there. I'm just to show kind of a structure, maybe some ice or some nose or mouth, or if you're more into animals or buildings you could do. You could do that as well, and you'll see that by doing the contrary process. You'll be guided more by their colors than by the shape. And can you really helps to learn abstraction this way and kind of learn to to get lose? Because I feel like there's two kind of artists. There's the one kind of need to processor, and when they know the processor, they'll be able to improvise a little more. And there the other types which needs to explore first try stuff and then understand what would be the processor, protocol or structure in order to get a final artwork that holds together. So that's to approach. The other thing is with People were very, very structured. Sometime it feels like Carrie, or it's making you anxious just to experiment, and you're kind of worried so much to our waste, your drawing or Teoh to spoil everything you did. Eso Just give yourself the permission to try and fail, and if you wish, like do it again, I Water color is not very expensive. Like the material, the paper and the kids are not expensive, so you can kind of waste it. Okay, Just just take like, an afternoon and do do bad stuff low you to do bad stuff, sir. Can break with the anxiety off doing wrong. Because especially with water colors, it's it's never like to expect. It's really aren't. You know how it will look before you do it. Eso playing around with this, I think well below you to expand your currently mento and get get good in another way are so fun of towns while I'm looking at this time lapse, which is about to end askew. See, I've taken love my distance. So I went from a little girl, too. Uh, water priest s with blue air. And I wanted to us, um, Inc around her eyes does look just like Karol's or something like that. And I'm still using the same detainees you saw me use earlier. Um, so it is a good way for you to see nets. You can apply the same process with another drawing and friendly. This is the last day. And you see that I've waited a little bit. There was a pause into drawing, and then I'm adding the TA shops. I am deciding to use a ticker line just to do again shape off their face because I felt it was not clear enough. I'm gonna add here and there some white I lights, um, to show the reflection on the character. 11. Complete Timelapse Example 2: Okay, another time lapse. Example. Not that you have two of them. You'll see that the process is very similar. Um, for this time lumps. I want to talk about the benefits off painting in watercolor on your mood and anxiety because it's, I think, one kind of drawing and painting that is extremely relaxing. Um, for sure, maybe not when you learn in the beginning, but as soon as you'll get a little bit comfortable, you'll see that it's very relaxing and especially if you do the same kind of project twice or tree times. Uh, it's getting easier and easier, so you can really use the art time as it combing activity. Our because when you are concentrated on something, you kind of forget about everything else and you're just going with the flow. And it means like you have good enough challenge. So you know that you have something to achieve. But you have confidence in your skills to achieve it properly, so you don't feel anxious or stressed about the end result as well. They're just kind of enjoying the flow off the activity, especially in the times where we are so stressed with. I work or a different things in our lives. Painting drawing is one activity that allows you to connect Uh, what's your inner self? And just to realize or meditate a little bit. So the way I would recommend you to do that if you want to learn how to do it, would first be just too breeds slowly while you paint or draw, you just want to be. I concentrated on what you do and to focus, and this is some kind of meditation where you focus your attention on something which is external to you, but it lows. You kind of feeling more connected and yen, and to be able to re breed and be really called. I make sure to be in a quiet environment where you paint a place where there's not too many people going or not too many people talking to you because those interaction, they can break the connection. You finally get with yourself when you you're starting to pained. And if you have natural lightning, it's also perfect. First, you're going to see the true colors off your water color, but it's also good are for vitamin D and that you'll get with the sun and generally putting you in a better and comforting. If you can get this meditative state is good for you, and drawing will become something really relaxing and you'll associate it with something positive. Uh, and if you want to learn quickly and efficiently, I was sections that you do it a little bit every day, and actually it's proven that it is better to do a little bit every day. Then let's say won't very long shot on Sunday. So doing so well. Hello, you Onley to get better at drawing, but get better at being cold case, you can learn to be less anxious. You can learn to be quieter and calmer by just practicing timidity of skills every day and to drawing skills every day. Make sure to have a good posture when drawing, and I cannot repeat it enough because, alright, if you're kind of always been over well, at some point you'll filic in your neck and it will not be comfortable when you'll get a particle e. So make sure Teoh if you start feeling some stress in your neck and back, take a little break, stretch out uh, and start over again later is just free to have bitter and general health eso conclusive doubts about art and drawing. Um, art is very personal for the person who is looking, but also the person who is creating and not offers are artist that can be in an exhibition or when contests. And that's OK because the internal gains you will have with art are just so huge. It's really like it's a therapy and you can use it for you. And if by any chance other people are injuring watching your art, you can help them as well. But the approach of the art is really personal in the beginning, and I think every artist should be aware of that. 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