Portraits painting from a photo for beginners - David Bowie

1. Intro david til skillshare: Hello there and welcome. Let's paint David Bowie. In this video, I'm going to teach you how to paint this awesome painting of David Bowie. All you need is some kitchens, bunches, stencils, and I2 projector, acrylic paint, a Canvas, some brushes, the Posca pen, and a ruler. That's all we need to paint this awesome painting. Now, let's get started. See you in Lesson one. 2. Starting up the background: Here I have taken the colors I would like to work with. I only lay small blobs of paint around on my canvas that I can work into each other with my kitchen sponges. The colors can be mixed without turning brown, as they all consist of the same primary colors, blue and yellow. Now I just used my kitchen sponges to work the colors into each other in small circles. In the transition between the colors, I use a clean sponge to make the colors faith nicely into each other. When my first coat of paint is dry, I gave it one more time to saturate the colors. That makes them more vibrant and intense. I dilute my paint a bit by spraying some water on my sponge. This will make the color more transparent and easier to apply in a thin layer, the colleges needs to be slightly saturated, not opaque. Now I want to make some Harlequins squares in my background. My Halloween squares should only be visible in the background when my painting is finished. For that, you can use this density. If you have one. Here, I will show you how to make them by hand. Here I use an overflow list. You can use a ruler or whatever you have on hand, as long as the width of it is not more than two to four centimeters, you need to be able to draw on both sides so that your Harlequins squares would be the same size all the way through the area you've been making the effect on. You can make your dice more or less pointed by adjusting on your ruler, by laying it further down, you get a flatter dies by straightening it more, you get a more pointed dice. If you want to assess what you guys will look like, you can draw a line on your ruler so you can see the entire desk before you decide if you took the ruler a little bit more, you can easily assess whether it should be more or less pointed. I always paint them over the edge so that they don't hang and float in the air. To not worry about the half square towards the center of the painting as it will be covered in paint later in the process. 3. Making the cool harlequin effekt in the background: Okay, so now I'm ready to paint my dice is, and since they will be more or less covered in paint later on, I do not make too much of it. It does not matter too much that they are painted perfectly to the edge as you won't be able to see it anyway. I have chosen a lot of colors that I think harmonize. And therein also a complimentary color, the pink one. Now I just paint all my dieses in different colors and they always love it when I get to this point, because then it's time to sit back, relax a little bit with a nice cup of tea or coffee. It's almost meditation for me, just as it's meditative. Later when I'm going to paint David, I really enjoy this part of the process because you can be allowed to immerse yourself a little bit. So sit back and enjoy the quiet moment. In a little while, it goes crazy again when we're going to paint them are diocese into the background and make it more rustic. 4. Projecting and drawing David to the canvas: As you probably have wondered, you can see I have marked with tape in one of the sites as I want to make an area where I can write Bowlby, some fun effects need to be made and then the name needs to be painted. I use a nice clear red color, which contracts with the other colors. As you can see, the color is not opaque and therefore I'm mixing a little widen, otherwise the color would not be vibrant, but no Matt. Later on in the process, I will give it a second coat of the red color. Now I want to start getting my Halloween chiggers rustic, and get them more into the background by layering some color over them. For this, I use my sponge along the way, a scratch a little bit in the paint, as well as web some of it off again with a damp cloth. Finally, I take a metal spatula where I use only the backdrop, apply some paint in a slightly thicker layer, no need to scrape it on. It should be applied with the entire underside of the spreadsheet. Finally, I'd just drop it a little bit with my sponge to get some slightly softer transitions. So now I want to color the other side of the canvas. Right now, it does not look particularly good, but it's getting better. It's about at the present time, having confidence in depresses. Again, I use my sponge and my metal spatula to apply the paint. If you find that your paint is a little heavy to pull out, you can just put a little water on this branch. As you can see, I ended up applying yellow and white paint on the blue color as I did not like the restored her Ray for wide, That's my motto. Because when you make something that did not turn out as expected, you can fortunately always painted over again. You should not be afraid of that. To not be afraid to experiment. Maybe it'll be good, maybe not. But if not hurray for white. Now you can hardly see my Heineken cubes anymore. You can adjust on it by applying more or less paint on top. Here is the plan that you could only just sends them in the background. They should not be dominant. There's not expression called kill your darlings. It can be very difficult for some people. Now I'm painting with the red for the second time. See how nice and clear the color is now compared to when I painted it on without the white coloring. It would never become the red beautiful color. Even if you gave it many layers. The wide serve as a pure background for your color. 5. Painting David: Now I make some effects with a stencil with polka dots. I do a little here and a little there. Can also be used as possibly camouflaged for AKI transitions. If there are some areas you're not happy with. Now, I'm projected my portrait of David Bowie. Now, I want to draw the outline of David onto my canvas. I do this with a black Posca pen. I'm always very detailed when I draw the eyes, the nose, and the mouth, as it is his personality that is to be expressed here. You cannot start free styling when drawing details from a face. You can do this when you draw the hair, the clothes, and the body, but never when you draw the face of the personality, because then you will not be able to recognize the person. The computer is very smart in selecting the details. We're not smarter than that. Unfortunately, no, I just draw the rest, david. Where the edges are a little indistinct. I just draw straight line that defines an area. I do this because we do not have to draw all the noise. That's an osteon. So it's not a real stencil because we cannot cut it out. We can only draw afterward. When editing our photos, there's often a bit of noise from the shadows in the photo. If we had to draw every single little dot, We wouldn't never finished and I would get very tired. So make it easy for yourself by defining the areas, but always be as precise as possible when making the eyes, the nose, and the mouth, all the other areas you do not need to be so detailed with. It'll still be a super cool result. 6. The last finish and making the name: Now I want to make some fun out here on the side. It could have been a quote he had said, or a name on an album, his date of birth, or anything else relevant to David Bowie. Here I have just chosen his name. I have chosen a polka dots Denzel to make my effect with, but it can be any tension you have. And like flowers, stripes or a cool pattern stencil you already have at that with a base color that does not create a lot of contrast. But you can easily make your effect more visible with a naughtier color than I do here. The black were paint around afterwards. We'll deem it. I put a little pink on afterwards to spice it up a little bit more. When it's dry. I take my masking tape off and then I draw his name by hand. I draw it by hand because I want a naive expression. If you're not comfortable drawing it by hand, you can use a stencil or you can design it in a cool font you like. Once I have drawn the name with my posca pen, I start painting everything that is outside the name, the background. Remember, you do not have to paint black. You can paint it any color you want. Now I just have to make the last little bit of finished. Remember, you can paint any one you like. Do you want to paint your favorite actor? I didn't want to paint your children, your girlfriend, your husband, or something else. The sky is the limit. Thank you for watching. I hope to see you in one of my other videos. Thank you for now. Bye.