10 Great TIPS for Portrait Painting that Work
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Hi, I am the son of two artists and began painting in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia before I could walk. I was a rare combination of artist and athlete so I moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to play football for USC. I left the team my sophomore year to focus on painting and filmmaking, applying the same focus and discipline from my football career to my art. I primarily work in oils, and spend most free days painting "en plein air" in my new home of Sarasota Florida.
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Oddly enough I work primarily as a digital artist yet I find these trad tutorials more useful than than the digital ones. I think it's because they deal with the substantive nature of colour which really needs to be learned no matter what the medium.
I feel like these are helpful tips for any portrait artist no matter the medium tbh :)
same here i am doing digital but more tradigital way and these help
I actually tried this recently. For a couple or years or so I set my drawing Program's default canvas color to brown instead of white so it hurts my eyes less at night.
I noticed whenever I used my airbrush or watercolor brushes my values were thin? I never used enough watercolor first of all until my last piece, but I could always see the brown showing through.
And then in my latest piece I used a different color background and I realised using, at the very least, lighter backgrounds in general, just made everything look a lot better, as well as using a thicker opacity watercolor brush in general.
All this time I forgot the background color was a factor xD
Because it dries quicker than oils, I'll sometimes prep the canvas with a base color and block out basic shapes and colors with acrylic paint 1st, & then building on it with oils.
You are a great teacher, I learn so much from your videos💖
Thank you! 😃
Just enrolled in your course ! I’m so excited !
I have a BA in studio art but honestly I feel like I was battling oil the whole time I was at school.
It wasn’t even art school (just another university). Sooo I’m so excited to tackle your class to get reacquainted with the fundamentals! (:
I am on my third portrait painting (of the same subject too), I just started because I got a bunch of paint and supplies for free. I use a grid to sketch out the features to be the right proportions and then start with the darkest parts/biggest parts, then go back in for smaller spots and then detail, since I’m not finished on the third portrait I’m not sure how it will look but already compared to the first two I did, it’s SO much better! My first two almost looked like barbies with their features, but this third one has a much more realistic look to it. I’m hoping to paint like Rembrandt, his portraits are my favorite. I’ve been teaching myself to draw portraits for a few years but hadn’t made much progress until quarantine happened
And you videos have helped me a ton, I had all kinds of paint mediums I had no clue how to use or what they were even, I’ve watched so many of your videos I feel like I’m somewhat knowledgeable on oil painting now 🤞🏻 still a novice but so excited to keep learning!
I love your teaching. I already took the course and signed up for the monthly paintings. Thank you Chris.
Wonderful!
I’ve really found green to be useful in my skin tones
That's a color I think Van Gogh used in faces a lot. Somehow it works!
After oil painting for three years pretty much non stop. I just now found your videos and all your tips are spot on
Great timing as I'm about to start a portrait tomorrow! Thanks Chris, some great advice as always xx
I would love to know more about the business aspect you should do a video on other ways you can make a living with art I feel like if I'm fully submerged I'd create amazing pieces more often. You really inspired me to start doing more you're so right all your tips have helped! I would love to spend more time doing what I love. Sending positive vibes!
It's sooooo appreciated coach!! It's so generous of you. Absolutely grateful. 🙏
I will use these tips and tricks! Thank you so much, you inspire all of us
My new favorite coach!!! Thank you!!!
The lighting and background is perfect and awesome painting and tips 👌
The details you make are very beautiful
Your teaching is unparalleled !
Wow, Your portraits have so much expression in their face, love it. You have a great teaching voice 😍
i love your works, i especially adore the references your videos are full of; for example portrait of jack nicholson from the shining in this one
Me: got stuck with my acrylic portrait
Paint Coach: i guess it's my time to help you
I'm doing a portrait right now and am just stuck so I stepped back and looked up some tips just to see if anyone had anything I hadn't tried. Your videos really help put the words into the methods that I have in my head. I know I'm doing a certain thing, but then I doubt myself so seeing the process and hearing you explain it really helps a ton. Subbed!
Thanks for these videos coach!!!
I absolutely love your videos and took your fundamentals course. This video is especially helpful as I am trying to hone my portrait skills. I get so close as I have developed my drawing skills and learned how to see a subject, I find that I can't always translate what I see to what I can paint. I'd love to see you talk a bit more about the detail work - loading and controlling your brush for those thin lines and hitting the color notes that bring a face to life. Thank you!
I think I'm in love!
I just started watching your videos and I am getting so much out of them! You explain everything important in such a clear and simple way.
Thanks for ur advice its really helpful, im from Ethiopia currently working portrait paintings which they preferred to be a bit abstracted, actually i already done realistic but struggled to make it messy but interesting.
One of the best instructors on UA-cam
Thanks!!!!!!!
Love your tips and your work! Morgan Freeman is one of my favourites and you did justice to his handsome face! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! 🇨🇦👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥰
Very informative vid, thank you!
thank u a lot for ur videos i learned so much from you🙏💓
Thanks for the tips are very helpful
I work in pastel. I also work from dark to light. I find your tips very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks…always providing excellent advice/tips…to the point….be safe
Super useful, thank you
great coach ! really helpful ❤️🙌🏻
That is a great painting of denzel keep up the good work
Thankyou Chris some excellent tips, I did have a fear of drawing without gridding at the start but I began pencil drawing and practicing and then started to draw my portraits freehand, I find the drawing now so enjoyable once I stopped being afraid of not getting it right, taking your time on the drawing and if its not right you can always wipe it and start over.
Thank you Paint coach!
Great video. You put so much attention to both the paintings and the video. Inspiring 👍
Such a great video.....leave room for corrections was so true.....and thank you for repeating what you have taught in other videos it has to be pounded into my brain it seems before I "get it".. thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You’re seriously my favourite UA-cam u have helped me sm as I’m doing a lot of paining in my gcses and ur helping me understand it
Glad to be of help!
Another great vid matey 👍
Superb!
I'm going to attempt my very first portrait. I'm nervous it won't turn out good, but I know I need to expand my subject matter if I expect to become a better artist. Last night, I painted a hand with a butterfly and some flowers. Painting that hand was HARD. The painting sucked, but I learned a lot from it. I'm just going to take this portrait I'm about to attempt as a learning experience.
Thank you!!!❤
Very nice demo 😊
Fantastic tips
Amazing ... A good looking artist with great hair and supreme level of teaching skills with a balanced physique.... Is there anything you can't do 🙁🙁🙌🙌 bow to you
Learned a lot, thanks
Really helpful. Thanks
You are just amazing, I'm just a beginner ❤🙏
I love your portraits! Could you talk about how to decide on a shadow color for different subjects? Thanks
Thanks for tips.
Good tips thanks
Awesome video
Good advice, much of which I knew but needed reminding about. Impressive work! Great channel. I mean to get back into oil painting in the near future, after a long digitally-dominated interlude...
Very helpful🤟🏾
Thank you. Got my coffee. I'm ready!!
Tracing made me feel like a fraud 😣
I had a client who was perfectly happy with a traced piece of work and I ended up insisting that he deserved better 😲😣
Your painting is fantastic~!!! I enjoyed your video.🥰
Thank you so much 😀
Worth watching
I didn’t know about the color of the face and different color combos instead of just lightening or darker shades thanks
I definitely need to remember to work dark to light...and many other things 😅
Good tips. People definitely need to learn to mix complimentary colors. Using something like grey to desaturate color can cause issues
Nice coaching
I believe you brother 👍👍
Good job on Red. Now let's see his friend Andy!
Thank you for your inspiring vids...after watching several of your vids you’ve really helped take the mystery out of how to begin...quick question..do you recommend gessoing the canvas pad or using as is?
Very nice❤❤👍👍
Hi, love your videos -- I actually paint digitally but I find your videos super useful in helping to understand the fundamentals. I often find that I'll draw a portrait and everything looks nice and pleasing but it doesn't look like the reference photo, there's something off. The obvious things are easiest to spot but there comes a point where I know its off but I don't know why. Do you have any tips on how you go about identifying errors?
You explain things so well. I'm so happy I found your channel. Thank you!!
I've seen your amazing artworks .I'm trying to make realistic sea waves and I can't find a good recource to learn it .
I like to benefit from your videos and maybe I'll learn some good techniques
This video kinda blew my mind. Might help. ua-cam.com/video/tMDNoipB92Y/v-deo.html
Thanks Chris!! So much good information in this one video!! I had to laugh when you mentioned you had to repaint the eye from the Jack Nichelson painting! I could see ithe eye was ‘off’ but did not know why! I am so glad you shared this very human moment- even those with years of experience are not perfect every time. Such a great lesson for all of us!!
Glad it was helpful!
First of all you're such an awesome painter thank you so much for your videos. Do you mix any mediums with your oils
Hello,
I just found you 2 days ago
Thank you so much for sharing so many wonderful tips
Pls, send me the link to the free course on color, I do not see the link
Gracias 🦋
Can you talk about dry times? Whens the best point to take a break, how long to wait, what products to use to slow and speed dry times, etc
Can these tips also help in acrylic painting, im very new to painting and finding it very fun and relaxing
sir, you make very good features, the hardest part while practice is making eyes, they are very hard!
currently watching while painting a portrait for homework
The biggest problem I would say beginners (like myself that's why I comment just in case someone can relate) have is not painting what they see. I can only go by my own experience though. When I see a person my mind tries to super simplify everything. So it makes a rough image in my head to what I SAW. When I stare at the canvas and NOT THE SUBJECT for too long I start painting the image that has formed in my head.
For example look at something for about 10 seconds then walk away from it and try to draw it from what you recollect about it. Now go walk back to that object. Looks bad doesn't it?
THAT RECOLLECTION OF THE IMAGE IS WHAT YOU DONT WANT TO PULL FROM WHEN YOU PAINT/DRAW/ETC!!! THIS IS WHAT IS RUINING YOUR PAINTINGS/DRAWINGS!!!
EDIT: Think about how a computer screen works. What if your screen refreshed every 10 seconds, would that 10 second image be useful in an First Person Shooter? Could you think trying to make a decision on something you saw 10 seconds ago? Heck NO! The screen is constantly being refreshed 60 times per second. Hell some people do 144+ times per second. This is because they want to make sure they are constantly viewing an object in REAL TIME so that they can make a decision. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WHEN PAINTING!!! SWITCH BETWEEN THE SUBJECT AND THE CANVAS WHILE PAINTING STROKES!! :END EDIT
The way to stop that is to look at the subject most of the time and glance at your canvas. If you are PAINTING AND LOOKING at the canvas for more than 4 seconds, you are painting a recollection of the subject and not the subject itself.
You can look at your canvas for however long you want to compare it with the subject. However, once you start painting you best be getting the eyes moving back and forth.
Paint Coach solves this problem by bouncing around the painting and never dwelling to much on one area.
If you spend too much time on one area that will cause that brain recollection to kick in and ruin your painting.
To me painting is a fight between what I see in front of me vs what my brain recollects me seeing. My best paintings come out when I dissolve the world into alien objects that light bounces off of in various ways. I am constantly looking at the subject most of the time and letting my arm movement follow what I see in front of me. I don't even think about the hand or arm movement as it is suppose to adhere to the subject in front of me.
When you are thinking about your hand movement, you are more likely to go back into brain recollection and not actually paint the subject. So what I did to solve this was to paint with my non-dominant arm. When I did this, my arm movements were so interesting, so strange, so different. The way it solved (because I still don't have a damn clue how it happened) how to capture form was angelic, liberating. All the worry, doubt, planning, etc. of how my hand was suppose to move was thrown out the window. I no longer stared at the canvas and continue to draw a recollection of what I saw. I could focus on the subject and whatever my hand was doing, I didn't care!!
You have to really let go and let your hand follow the shape of the subject. Then after like a week I went back to my dominant hand and then I was able to incorporate both styles into one.
Holy smokes man
You could have started and finished a painting using these tips within the timeframe you used to type that out
@@IzaacArtist lmao
@@cheeseballs1463 holy “strokes” man
How do you determine the color zones for the rest of the body? The explanation with the fae makes sense, but how do you determine with hands, arms, the torso, etc? Is it knowing where major collections of fatcells or blood vessels are or is there something else to help figure that out?
So appreciate all your points and help with painting. A portrait is of course not a photograph, when painting a darker skinned person, how do you get the right skin tone?
I struggle with shadows under overhangs or like skin sags and wrinkles, should i paint the shadow under the overhang first and then paint the skin of the overhang or the other way around
Te amo
Thanks so much for posting! Extremely helpful. Wish I had learned this 30 years ago, LOL
Can you do acrylics portraits?
Hello Chris, would your course on Patreon help me if I wanted to paint with Acrylics instead of Oils? Is it too much of a difference?
@paint coach beginner here. Im taking your course, have been watching videos and practicing. I got some brushes from Amazon but the bristles are coming off on my paintings! Is there a specific kit on Rosemary & co you suggest? I don’t know where to begin on there lol
In the description of this video I have links to the exact brushes I suggest for beginners.
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that one clip where u were studying the nose and eyes and lips from a picture, was that sigourney weaver in alien?
U r awesome..new sub..72 tear old nonnie
How do I work in a way that I never have to wait for the paint to dry? By knowing when and how much paint thinner to use?
Use galkyd instead. It’s wonderful for speeding up drying time. As for how much to use, I like to dip just the tip of my brush in and mix it into each individual color I’m using. I swear it’s like liquid gold. Went from an average drying time of two months to a day
what is this paint thinner? if we use it can we mix it with water or do we have to take it crude for painting?
Regards with respect Coach, i have one question for you, how is name of pc progam or cell phone app , that recognize the coloros? I need it ,collor wheel are my friend and i know to d saturation and anotation colors, all from basics collors, but sometimes i don recognize color of object part of face, that program i need, and i drawing also maybe better then i painting but i love art and oil paints also like charcoal, i hope so if you tell my name of softver.Vagalla maestro regards with respect
Video on nocturne painting?
can this be achieved with acrylics? i havent gotten into oil painting just yet but want to get in more realistic style painting. i know that oils tend to dry slower so it give range for mixing and overlaying as opposed to acrylics but can i still apply these techniques with acrylics? or does anyone have any suggestions for painting with acrylics?
You can buy a mix in for your acrylics to make them dry slower, behaving more like oil paints
Trying to get better. I draw pretty well but, when it comes to portraits I stink. I want to be able to free hand. How long did it take you?
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What happens if we don’t have paint thinner?
Grey gesso?
Hello😊I have a question. Is it possible to paint hyper realistic paintings in oil paints? It seems impossible to me since with acrylics u can add an endless amount of layers while with oils there's a limit to how thick u can get. Also I just absolutely love ur videos, keep it up😊😍
@Glum Sullen most of the hyper realistic paintings I've seen where either in charcoal or acrylics so I wasn't sure if it's possible in oils. Do u have an example of artists that do hyper realism in oils? Thank you😊
A lot of painters do hyper realism in oils! Chuck Black is a great example here on youtube. But beyond that, there really isn't a limit to how much you can layer oil paints. Most oil painters who want to paint in oils will use an alkyd drier like Liquin or Galkyd to help their drying times. Paint Coach paints in the Ala Prima style which means wet on wet, genreally in one sitting.. However hyper realists will often paint in many sittings with layers drying on top of each other. If you want to try it, I'd suggest trying out some liquin and seeing how you like it. Another alternative to acrylics would be Open Acrylics which have a slightly slower drying time to regular acrylics, but will still be dry within a couple hours as compared to using liquin with oil which will take 12-24 hours depending on the thickness of paint and pigments used. Hope that helps!
@@DannySabraArt thank you very much😊it really does help, I'm new to oils so I feel a bit lost haha when using dryers after each layer dries do I have to use thicker paint or the same level of thickness is possible as well? Also can u use paint thinner and dryer at the same time?
@@annamariasyntichaki1123 no problem! When using driers you can absolutely use the same amount of thickness or even thinner applications for glazes etc. you also can totally use thinner or even mix with more traditional mediums. Some people prefer the feeling of oil mediums and I’ve heard of people mixing liquin with oil to get the best of both worlds. One thing to be aware of is if you use copious amounts of liquin you might get some slight yellowing. The other thing to be aware of is that it does have an odor which bothers some people but many people it’s not an issue. But if you have a fan on or standard ventilation for oil painting you should be fine.
@@annamariasyntichaki1123 the thicker layers mostly applies to wet on wet painting. But if the layer underneath is dry you don’t have to paint thick unless you want to stylistically.
I don’t think "identify the big shapes" can be overstated.