It Has Been a While Since I Painted Watercolor Portrait

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Hello! How are you? So while cleaning up my room, I saw my watercolor materials, which had been abandoned since I stopped receiving commissions. I felt that I could not do this right now. Today, I decided why not paint again, and maybe I will be back doing commissions again. This is my all-time dream to open a portrait commission, which I have never done. I only experienced doing pet portraits, which I enjoyed so much. I have learned a lot from that experience, and I kind of invested in more professional gear using what I earned from it. I saw the ASEAN Hive Challenge "Paint, Sketch, or Draw." Yeah, maybe this is my chance to paint traditionally again.

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Materials I Used:

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The Process:

First I prepare the watercolor paper by taping the back of it and taping it to the DIY notebook easel I made LOL. After that, I drew an equal margin on each side to make the reference centered.

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The first thing I did was lightly sketch the reference face shapes and measure them to make the proportions equal, when I am satisfied with the proportions I am going to erase the light sketch and I am going to start drawing the line art. I am using a mechanical pencil with a 2b lead.

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After I drew the reference I am going to condition the watercolor paint by using water spray and I leave it for a minute to dilute the watercolor paint and I am ready to paint.

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After conditioning the watercolor paint, the next thing I do is mix the paints into the palette. For this part, I only used a little paint and more water for the first layer as I proceeded to the process the more paint I used than water. The first part I am going to paint is the skin what I used is Imidazalone yellow which is a cold color with a mix of quinacridone red which is a cold color too. I first painted the part where the shadow is placed.

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While the paint on the skin is still drying, I am going to paint another part which is the hair, sometimes watercolor painting is kind of complicated to explain but whenever I watch a video of someone painting a portrait is that why they add pink on the hair but her hair is black, as I paint more and more now I realize~ LOL. Artist's eyes see differently than non-artists which is true.

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This time the paint on the skin dried already so I am going to add more layer of paint on the skin. I added detail on the eyes too. The day I painted this portrait the weather was hot so it instantly dried the paints. Next, I painted the hair darker one thing I learned from painting watercolor is to be patient that's it. hehehe

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Now the portrait is getting better and better patient is the key for this medium, as you can see the skin is more vibrant now that I added more layers with more paint on it. I added more details of strands of hair to make it more lively and more volumized not flat.

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Now that I am satisfied with the skin, I painted the eyebrows and eyes in detail.

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After I added the details I am going to add highlights using this white gel pen, I added highlights to the hair eyes, and lips. To make the portrait not look flat I added a blue background around her back.

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For the final, I added more little dots as her background just for an extra touch. Wahllaaa~~

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Thank you for visiting, see you on my next blog. :D
Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))

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