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Watercolor Portrait Practice 2 by ~mollygrace:iconmollygrace:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Portraits & Figures

©2009 ~mollygrace
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I've decided to practice faces and watercolor skin tones. I've faved four awesome portrait stock photos and I'll be drawing them, then painting them.

Line art in scraps: [link] (Though I went back and pretty much redrew everything, so it doesn't really count.)

Stock used: [link]

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Ok.

Clearly, i had some trouble with the blending. There were things I was doing that I was able to get away with on lighter skin that showed up on darker skin. That's good in a way. Better to catch it now than to make it a habit. Since then I found a really great tutorial on blending that I hope to use soon.

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Mood: Love ~Masasasaki Feb 16, 2009, 8:52:45 PM
Wow, this is so beautiful!! I love it!

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~EAMONN-RYAN Feb 16, 2009, 8:58:32 PM
You have managed to catch the expressiveness of her eyes beautifully. :)

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Golly jeepers
Where'd you get those peepers?
Peepshow, creepshow
Where did you get those eyes?
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~mollygrace Feb 16, 2009, 9:15:26 PM
Thank you. Yeah, I completely redrew the eyes. I really wish I had rescanned it! I'd try painting it again. But -Oh!- woe is me.

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~mollygrace Feb 16, 2009, 9:16:20 PM
Why, thank you. Maybe I'll put it through some kind of photoshop thing and unstreak it. It's be pretty nice then.

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~EAMONN-RYAN Feb 16, 2009, 11:39:18 PM
Just yell at the scanner for a few minutes and you will feel better. I know it's not the scanner's fault, but it always helps to yell at inanimate objects (especially in public :D ). :)

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~mollygrace Feb 16, 2009, 11:57:32 PM
:nod:

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Mood: Big Grin ~Masasasaki Feb 17, 2009, 7:06:54 AM
You are welcome!!

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~playdough-princess Feb 17, 2009, 5:23:02 PM
Lovely job :) I love that you are trying so many new things. Makes me wanna experiment too. I really love the way you did the eyes, eyebrows and lips in this one.
The original photo that you used has so much contrast, that you almost wish to see more contrast here, but again- this is the way watercolors work sometimes. You could have used a few more shades of each color. I was actually looking at some water color paintings in the DR's office today, and was thinking of you.
Lovely expression in this :)
I LOVE mixing and blending colors, but it aint easy. What tutorial are you gonna look at? I might be interrested...
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~Barkis1 Feb 17, 2009, 5:23:30 PM
Pretty good!

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