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Oil Painting Portrait Demo Lesson - Male With Black Shirt and Black Hat - 2094

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This is a complete portrait painting demonstration in oil. Follow Steve from the beginning charcoal drawing through the finished portrait. All aspects of portraiture are investigated: design and rendering of the drawing, initial color composition determined with thin glazes, establishment of middle tones, setting the shadow areas, and building and refining the portrait with thick, rich color and vibrant highlights.

Index

00:00:12 - Begin with charcoal drawing, fundamentals are discussed

00:01:36 - Building scale around the eye, creating a 3D form

00:03:37 - Understand your subject

00:05:22 - Cast shadow defines form, addressing the nose and mouth

00:08:22 - Finding the ear

00:08:59 - Drawing the hat

00:10:40 - Drawing the beard

00:15:47 - Drawing the shirt and t-shirt

00:19:14 - Begin painting, covering the white surface with color glazes beginning with flesh tones

00:21:23 - Working the background

00:23:26 - Working towards middletones

00:25:35 - Addressing the shadow areas

00:26:58 - Adjusting the background color

00:28:43 - Mixing a black, putting in the darkest values

00:35:13 - Working the darks, owning the form

00:46:23 - Making corrections, enhancing the middle values, skin tones, building color

00:56:38 - Placing cooler, lighter values, getting to the lightest lights

01:01:22 - Building color

01:04:57 - Placing a neutral color

01:05:54 - Treat the hair as a form

01:13:09 - Adding a third color to shadow areas, mixing shadow area color

01:16:27 - Keeping areas of transparent paint along with thick paint

01:20:45 - Building richesr color in the shadow areas

01:29:48 - Addressing the shirt

01:38:24 - Enhancing the lightest lights

01:40:52 - Finishing the beard

01:47:39 - Finalizing the background

01:51:19 - Adding the finishing touches

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