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STEP BY STEP - Experiment with Mixed media portrait based on the reference from you ✨🧡

Added 2021-09-15 15:05:25 +0000 UTC

Hi!

I hope you’re having a great week 😊

Here’s an experiment based on the reference from Yoana 🤗 You can send your references on Discord and I’m gonna use them in my monthly sketches with step by steps 👾

It’s not in any of my usual styles (or color palettes) but it was very interesting to test mixing media this way! 🎨 That’s what sketchbooks are for, right?

1. PENCIL SKETCH & GOUACHE BACKGROUND

At first I thought it will be just usual pencil sketch but then I decided to go further and add this bluish background. I used these 3 colors of Holbein Acryla Gouache mixed into one:

2. WATERCOLOR SKIN

Then I thought that I’ll use ink but changed my mind again 😂 and painted the whole head with watercolor base. Not with gouache cause I wanted it to be kinda transparent. Then I improved the sketch with colored pencil ("Poppy red"). I like this stage ✨

3. PRISMACOLORS

I shaded the planes of the head with "Poppy red" and added darker details with "Tuscan red". I think I could leave it at this point but eventually I added also yellow to create warm light and a bit of blue for shadows.