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RE: Painting portraits is hard.. moreso in watercolors

in #art6 years ago

Using watercolors is probably the hardest way to do this. I would recommend to use pencil and once you are good at it, move on to charcoal. Practicing with Bargue drawings would give you both a good reference as well as growing challenges.

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Thanks for your comment! Ah yes, the Bargue plates. I have worked on these a bit here and there. Would probably benefit from doing it some more. I completely agree about the difficulties of watercolor, but then again it's so enjoyable using the medium that I find it hard to resist. I believe it is important to balance "fun time" art making with study time in the end, so I do foresee some graphite studies in my future.