Dear Steemit family! Today I've decided to make quick oil portrait sketch of my friend Markov. I've stumbled upon the photo of him in my photo library and his expression was so interesting for me to study that I grabbed nearest toned and stretched canvas and installed it on my easel. So...
As usual, I've started with drawing - with mixture of raw umber and transparent oxide red using bristle brush. Gesture, proportions and big shapes - there is no need to deal with small features
Here I am trying to build forms with very broad strokes, starting with the nose and moving outwards to cheeks and brows
When basic big shapes are defined it's time to work on eyes - I always try to find proper shapes for eyesockets first and paint smaller shapes on top of them
Jumping from area to area, defining the shapes, fixing mistakes, trying to make shapes more interesting in design. To finish this sketch I just quickly paint the hair and it's all.
Hope you dig it, people! Cheers!
Fantastic!
Just drained my upvote to 80% and need to wait a day to keep upvoting great posts like this one, and to support @c-squared, @ArtzOne, and @art-venture. Your artwork is amazing. Thanks for sharing the steps as well as the final!
Superb! Upvoted, resteemed and followed!
Wonderful ! I dig it ! The way you capture expressions are very lovely and natural <3 I love LOVE how you flesh out the planes of a person's face into 'saying something' with their features :> Gorgeous portrait!!
Ditto that!
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Incredibly well painted. The skin looks so real as though one can touch it and I love the expressive expression on his face ... it captures the viewer by making us wonder what the man is thinking
wow this is amazing bro!! i love it so much
Amazing just sooo amazing <3<3
i want to see the finished work
seriously, i love it: the technique, the estructure and proportions, the expression, the colors used, the shades, the feeling of depth, <3<3
it looks so wonderful ^^
keep it up, please
wooow, this work is amazing!!!
...all of your works! Great artist!
...cant wait so see more. check my profile if you find some time. i do a lot of art too ;) .
cheers,
-edga NOWARGraffitis
Very good job. Love the colors.