Perfecting Features 1 "Eyes"

1. Intro: Hello everyone. For this class, we're gonna do things a little bit differently. We are going to be focusing on the features. We're going to paint a face together, but each class is going to focus on a feature off the face. For this class, it's all above the eyes. And I'm going to show you step-by-step simple painting techniques that anyone and everyone can do. What you're going to need for this class of watercolor paints. Watercolor brushes, sizes one to four. Watercolor paper weighing between 160 grams and T20 grams. For this classic, you don't even have to worry about drawing the face. The drawing of the face is provided for this class in the link below. So just follow along with me. And let's start. 2. Painting the Skin 1: I'm starting by mixing my paints for the eye shadow. If you want to paint along using the same reference image, the link is below. And the face that we're painting as this one. If you see around the eyes, she has a peachy rows eye shadow. And that's why I'm going to, I'm going to follow. And for eye shadow, lips and hair, I always encourage people to do what they wanted to do. Pick a color that you want to pick. Those are the places we can be the most creative and you really can use as many different colors as you want, whatever tone you want and it'll still be good. And this is for the skin color. I've mixed white with yellow ocher. This is our pencil sketch. As I mentioned in the insurer, we are painting a face together. So if you want to use the same pencil sketch, the link is below. I start by applying my paint for my skin, which wasn't mixed off white and yellow ocher. And then I just matched with the reference image to make sure that I got the right shade. So you can make it lighter or you can make a darker. It's really up to you. This is all just a guide. The technique for this class that I'm going to be using. I want the overall picture to be quite watery looking, blotchy looking. But definitely it's better to say what Shri. So you have a clear understanding of it rather than making it defined, I feel like this technique is a much easier technique for a lot of people to follow. For a paperweight. What I have right now, I am using paper that is 160 grams, £98 weight. I would advise you to not go lower than that. So 160 grams, which is £98, is the paper that I'm using. But if you are a beginner, I would advise you to use to 20 grams. Sorry, I cannot remember what that is in pounds, but 220 grams is the best if you're a total beginner. One of the things that really can affect the overall look or how well you paint a picture is the paper. Pick the wrong type of paper. You can struggle. So just pay attention to your paperweight. If you're gonna be following along with this technique which is quite watery. I have applied my skin tone color around the eyes and just place around the sides of the face that I just know for me for future. Where I'm gonna be placed in certain things. I'm gonna do the same thing on the other sides. I'm keeping it award tree. For now. You can always add more color, more saturation if you want to, but you always want to start or tree and I guess I should say it was when a stop light as light as possible. It makes it easier to remove and fix mistakes. Don't paint just all across every single white spot or every single whitespace, leaves certain spaces clear of paint. It gives a nice aesthetic and a nice overall look at the end in the middle of the center of the load. That's where you want to you want to keep that clear. If you're unsure between you look at a face, you look at where you see the light hitting, and that's where you keep it clear. 3. Painting Eye Blush 2: Now we're going to apply our eye shadow. The mine is like a soft red with orange undertones to it. I'm playing first the corners underneath. I'm just applying certain areas rather than just all over the place and then I will blend. It makes it easier for me to be able to control. I am using this motion of dabbing and patting. For this watery technique. You definitely want to do a lot of dabbing, unpacking you to want to paint in streaking sweeping motions. Because we want to have that effect and you'll see it in the end. It's also with this technique. Does you can try it on a separate piece of paper just to make sure that you get that effect. You want it to look like watery drops of color, sort of gently flowing into each other. That is very clear. You have to be careful about the consistency. You don't want to use too much water and you don't want to use too much paint. So again, you can try it on a separate page, just make sure you got the consistency right here. I just blend my paint. I'm using a size one brush for around the eyes. I would say use your smallest brush for around the eyes. And then you'll larger brushes you can use on your cheeks and on your nose. And your medium-sized can be free ellipse. So as you can see around here, I've just applied sides and below the eye. For now I'm just following the reference image. But given myself a little bit of freedom to do what I find aesthetically pleasing. Take your time and just enjoy. This should be the most relaxing, soothing thing to do. This is just a good way to just sort of distress and detach from like all the craziness of the daily life. Don't put too much pressure on yourself and getting this right. 4. Painting the Eyes 3: Now that we have our eye shadow, looks pretty good to me and it's dried. Now, I'm just going to start to define our eyes and fill in those corners. And with inside the corners, you can actually just use the same blush color that you have but darker. And then I'm going to lie the top of the eyes, the lashes that line, and the bottom. Again for this, you want to use your smallest brush, size one. If you did not have a size one brush, you take the brush that you have, the smallest brushy have, you depend water and then you flatten the brush between two fingers, make it as flat as possible, and then dip that back into paint and use that to lie him the top of your eyes and the barn. Here I am filling in the iris. I'm using a black color with notes of dark brown in them. Because when you look at them, look at her eyes, they do look pretty dark. I mean, depending on the lighting there, obviously brown, dark brown. But I'm just going to follow again my reference image. You can use a different color, you could use green. I hit that would be really good. And give her hazel eyes, that'll be great. So feel free to pick any color you want for the eyes. And remember to leave spots clear in the iris. You can leave two to three, but no less than two over on the left side, left three and the right side of one big one and then a shade lighter below, which you want to leave. Those areas of light showing the light hitting the eyes. If you just paint flat, it will look flat. 5. Painting Inside The Eyes 4: Painting the white of the eyes with the smallest brush and with white paint. The Winsor Newton travelers packages, it comes with like Chinese white, which is not white, white. White, white white paint because I'm using also another pack, the Pentel pack. You can do that. So the colors that I definitely would suggest you guys to buy separate from APAC. You always gonna need these colors and that's yellow ocher, black and white. Because this pack also then Winsor Newton one, does that have black, which is really annoying. But those three colors you always want to have separately. You can just buy them a separate tubes. The larger the tubes, the battery, because you will always, always, always, always use these colors. I'm just defining the corners of the eyes and light as you can see. I'm not using a lot of detail. I'm not lining all the way across at the bottom. I'm going to leave I'm just going to lie in the corners and then leave the middle clear just for the aesthetic that I'm going for. So don't worry about adding a lot of details right now. I'm just defining the lines and making sure that things look good. I guess it's the best way to put it. The purpose of this class is that is to help you be able to do this over and over and over and over and over with a pencil sketch that I've applied. I have supplied, excuse me, with a pencil sketch that I have added to the link below. You can print as many as those as you want. And you can just keep repainting the eyes over and over and over and over and over. And a way to trace. When you print the sketch, you want to trace it onto the watercolor paper. You plan to repaint this iss over and over just as practice, you just draw over the printed pencil sketch. He placed it on top of the watercolor paper and then the lining, the outline will imprint to the watercolor paper. And then you can paint onto the watercolor paper if that makes sense. Or you can just print onto heavier paper and just paint onto that. But the purpose is to make it easier for you guys so you don't have to spend a lot of time trying to draw the space. I have provided the drawing for you. So what you can just focus on perfecting or improving your painting skills. You can just paint again and again and again and again and again. Next time we are going to be doing the nose. But for this week it's going to be the eyes. And as you can see, just keep it. Nice. 6. Finishing Up 5: We're almost done, guys, over here at the top. I'm going to I've already applied paint for the eyebrows, just dabs of paint. And then I'm going to blend into the eyebrows. Again. We want to award three effects, a watery base. And I'm using dark brown. If you don't have dark brown, you can mix red with yellow ocher and a little bit of black or red with orange and a little bit of black to get that dark brown. So I'm keeping it watery. And then I start to go in and I do these quick strokes. For the definition of the hairs in the eyebrow. You do quick. The secret is to do a quick because if you do it slow, it doesn't have that sharpness. That can take a bit of practice. Because sometimes I've had those where I will paint quickly and no paint applies to the paper. So you have to make sure that you've picked up enough, enough amount of paint onto your brush. Brush cannot be too wet. You have to just practice on a separate page. And this is how I want the eyebrows to be. And then I'm just going to blend at the top here. Then are to define. So it goes along with the overall image of the painting that we're going to have at the end. So you just blend. Don't use too much water. Because if you use too much water, you will remove those quick strokes that we painted. We want to keep those and blend in between those quick brush strokes. So again, you want to use the smallest brush that you have here. You definitely need a small brush. And I will dab my brush onto some tissue paper to make sure I didn't have too much water so that I don't end up disturbing the strokes I've already painted. So let's just quickly talk about brushes. So I generally use size one brush and a size four brush. Besides those sizes for me, if I have those two sizes, I'm good to go. The size four is great. When you're painting the face. You can just get all of those wide large areas and the hair definitely want like a nice large brush. And a size one brush is perfect for eyes and eyebrows and those small details. You can pick a brush size in-between if you'd like size to size three. But I would encourage you to always, always, always have a size, one brush. And then the largest size, I would say size four. But the most important for me, for the portraits is a size one. C can get those small details. And these are the eyes guys. Thank you for taking part in this class. Thank you so much and I will see you in the next one.