REAL-TIME VIDEO - Acrylic Portrait Study (Patreon)

Hi peeps, 

Here's your Real-time video for Feb!

I'm a few days late with that one, so sorry, the Process Videos have been sucking up all my time. 

This video is a real-time version of the above sketchbook portrait painting.
It does not have music or a voice-over, and is about half an hour long. 

I have listed the reference below, as well as an overview of the supplies I used. 

My objective with this painting study was to practice using acrylics in a watercolour-like fashion. My main interest in the medium was to apply it in the same way I would watercolours, but take advantage of the fact that layers don't reactivate, to see if I could achieve a layered look that wasn't blended. 

I started off with a cool underlayer, laying down my shadows, and then went in with a warmer wash to add some skin colour to the face, and finally went in with a more opaque skin colour to see how the underpainted shadows would come through. 

I tried keeping the whole thing loose and textured. 

I finished things off with a dark sepia outline, which wasn't part of the plan initially, but I found myself wanting to emphasize contrast and definition once I had finished painting. 

I hope you'll enjoy this peak into my process!

If you have any questions, leave me a comment! <3

Take care!

My reference :

"Brutally Honest" by Paul Berlin

Reference source : 

 https://web.500px.com/photo/74470039/brutally-honest-by-Paul-Berlin/?utm_medium=pinterest&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px 

SUPPLIES USED

- Sketchbook : Daler Rowney A3 Graduate Sketchbook

- Sketch : 

- Paints : Liquitex Soft Body Acrylics (Basic set + Muted Colours Set)

- Brushes : 

- Watercolour Pencil :