I've been painting and selling oil portraits for 45 years and of course I've watched a lot of painters on youtube. Lots of good painters but you may be the best instructor I've seen and listened to including college and university profs. You have a very straightforward and clear way to explain anything. Without taking 3 hours to do it! I'm definitely recommending your channel to friends and family.
Yeah the vast majority of art teachers are just terrible at actually teaching, in my experience. This guy actually knows how to teach, and it's an absolute GAME CHANGER.
Thanks. I found this helpful as I am usually a landscape painter but have got a few portraits to do. I went to art school for 5 years and the content of this video is exactly the way we were taught, so this 12 minutes has been a great refresher for me before I start.
Been trying to learn how to paint lately. Even though this guy teaches oil painting and I've been using acrylics, his tutorials helped me so much in trying to learn how to draw still lifes and portraits.
I've watched this video several times in the last 2 days. It is so informative! Basically, I have always worked at DRAWING portraits & have done them well. When I started painting a few years ago, i figured that it was like drawing with color.... Not! That video is a font of information! So many things explained in easy to understand language & examples! Fat over lean, brush sizes, why stand so far away & what happens when too close. Not blending! Wrapping the face with color, etc. I was able to take a too tiny tracing of a face & apply the techniques & was amazed that when I looked at the painting from across the room, after a very short time, BAM! I recognized that face! First time! I think that ALOT of painting teachers have been painting for so long that they leave ALOT out that they automatically do. You answered so many questions. In college, my painting professor taught us how to stretch canvasses & clean brushes & had the still life set up & told us to paint it while he went to his studio & worked on his own stuff. I got an A- in the class, but was basically just drawing with color & knew nothing about painting. I walked away from that class extremely frustrated because I couldn't get what was in my head onto canvas. Thank you Paint Coach!
I have the version of adult adhd that makes me search out and compile lists of a vast assortment of “how-to painting” videos - which I then watch one by one for only 4-5 seconds before clicking on the next... but anyway, “!!!” Why “!!!?” Because I keep watching your entire video videos because they are so chock full of tips and you explain things in a not overly obtuse (verbose?) way. I love this channel, in short. Thank you
Chris, man that Kobe painting brought tears to my eyes man. He would have appreciated you man. Totally has his authentic smile. Beautiful my man, good on you brother.
I tried your tips and started out with just the lightest and darkest. It worked sooo good and found it helpful throughout the whole process. Thank you for your informative videos!
Phenomenal teacher, amazing artist, perfect video. I couldnt see the videos to choose at the end for some reason, just your entrancing facial shapes, values, lines, colour and that little bit of light in your eyes! Hey, it's in there! Thanks!
The advice you offer here is really sound for this approach to painting. The working processes you describe are very useful, especially for people starting out with paint. It is refreshing that, when talking about different processes for getting drawings down initially, you are not judgmental and list a range of methods without placing them in a hierarchy-it is often the case that people regard any form of mechanical assistance as inferior without providing reasonable explanations. Paint and be happy.
Great stuff. I constantly have to remind myself of these things. Its so easy to ver away from these solid truths that that truly work. Often i find myself trying to take short cuts, never works. Thank you
You deserve way more views and followers! Great work, clean explaining, simple and effective❤️ I will promote you for free and hype you up because definitely deserve it
I’ve watched this video before. I painted a portrait and hated it. I’ve come back to see what I was doing wrong and a lot of it made much more sense, especially the soft focus picture part.
Hey Chris, I'm new to painting and until now have only been painting landscapes. With a need to further my learning and to understand portraiture, I found your video this morning. Truly engaging and having watched a ton of other videos on the subject, I found yours the most informative and helpful. I'm doing my first portrait today but not of anything of this world, but more a character from a certain horror flick, but I know this video will make me look at it differently. SO, thank you for this great video and for all the others in advance (of which I've seen a few now but will watch all others in time). Have subscribed and am so glad to have found this channel!
I think portraits are the most challenging as proportions need to be correct to make the subject recognisable. Although caricature artists manage to get away with distorting proportions and still having a recognisable subject. Making a greyscale of my reference pic and also taking a pic of my painting to desaturate the colours to check tone is one of the most helpful tips in my painting journey. It's harder to learn to see tone over colour.
So happy I found your channel. Just finished a basic paint sketch for a portrait and thought ok what do I do now? You have answered my question and more... and you're pretty funny too so you are now signed up as my new teacher :)
Top man, guy you keep doing what you're doing because you come across as genuine & are learning as you teach, you're good at it & will only get better.👏👍
Hi Chris, I have just discovered your channel after looking at Art videos over a long period, and your videos are GREAT! and right at the top of all that I have looked at. They are simple and very encouraging for people who want to paint. I have just subscribed so keep up the excellent work. Jim Dean down under in NZ.
well done! value and color! copy of black and white. anatomy of the face. mirror, upside down, shape, color, value. hair braking simple shaper and value. locks of hair. a darker section of hair. detail at the end. looking like the person. high light, when to stop? mearment, straight line, value.
Everything you say is completely transparent, sensible, clear and touches on what I have learned for myself through trial and error over the last couple of years painting with oils - this is why I trust your videos :) Brill.
I definitely tried to use that coloring book method by drawing on every detail before painting, and it just stressed me out and discouraged me along the way. I figured that if the drawing is good, then the painting will be good as well lol
I got more knowledge off this video than my painting classes in college. (Way) back then, they just threw us in and said 'paint'. Maybe that was to learn the tools, strokes and mixing but I found it frustrating to not get more instruction and it made me drop painting for more drawing classes.
Because I started late in life I never had the talent to do this so i take my portrait photos and feed them into my InDesign program, edit to enlarge or decrease to actual head size, print in b/w and use it to trace a copy on the canvas. I know that is terrible, but there are no rules in art😎
Very beautiful painting sir ,,, thank you good idea tech Nik. Step by step artwork life painting. ,, like and share your video and support you godbless you
i know this video is uploaded years ago but im hoping someone could help me: if you want to make a sketch with charcoal, can you do it on top of canvas thats been applied with linseed oil? because i came across a tip that you can apply linseed on canvas to make smoother outline with oil paint
Every beginner needs to start somewhere. So the advice here is probably useful for beginners. But at a certain point one needs to seek out higher development by studying top notch painters and by sheer din of applied effort.
I have an underpainting that came out really well and was wondering if I wanted to keep it like that, but go back over it for a final layer to cover up some pencil marks, would I just do an oil out and glaze?
Watching your channel grow has been excellent! You seem to always be able to put out new content which is great. You might be at a size now where you could do critique videos of your followers work. I think sometimes videos like that can be most helpful for young artists because of the personalized touch. :)
🔥 This is a process rapid fire. You certainly guarantee a rewatch. 😂 I haven't worked with oils yet but...I am a lateral learner. You've also made me more interested and much less anxious at the possibility of an attempt at oil. Lots of topics touched on. Rendering, lighting, shape, composition, anatomy, philosophy, etc. 👏🏼👏🏼 Inspiring to a new UA-cam creator. Benchmark made. o7 Love it. 🤘🏻 Stay tasty.🙏👋🏻👋🏻
You never mentioned when talking about getting a picture on a canvas many of us freehand! Learn it! It takes practice! Or spend that extra hour and a half gridding..😊
these are wonderful videos. I'm an intermediate experienced artist and right now I want to work on portraits but I had to go back to the basics. I'm working in the digital media, as well as I would love to start acrylics, gouache and watercolors. Thank you for making the simple stand out points not too complex, but enough for even experienced and beginners to understand. I always look for diff portrait vid tips from diff and multiple artists even if its something I've learned. I like looking at other's work and tips/techniques they list in the vid in case something catches my brain and it clicks and i be sure to take note of it. So far I've watched vids from your channel x3 this week for the first time and I love them. You have beautiful pieces of work and good learning tips & exercises. One thing abt another vid I saw, you mentioned you use a specific photoshop filter. I was wondering when you showed the filter with the color and blue. light, how did you do this? I know it must be in the adjustments region but I wouldn't also know if it was in the filtered section as well. Let me know so I can try to replicate this on some of my references!! thanks for the vid lessons!!
Thanks for the content I’ve Heard the importance of checking the values using a black and white version of the image - have you done a video on how to actually check if it’s correct or not?
I was looking for a paint with me with explanations, and it would have been more helpful, if you had focussed on the one portrait and showed the others in the end maybe, bc the fast forward is partially too fast for me (sorry) to see what you were actually doing - how you were laying down the paint. I'm new to this. I'm sorry. I might not be the target group even but wanted to leave feedback. 😊
"I know when to stop when the painting stops annoying me". That's some great advice!
Well, that's ussually too late, lol.
Thanks for the videò
I love that line, too!
I feel ya', man...
Ah I was hoping if I ever got that good that a painting would ever be annoying.
But but but it always annoys me...
I've been painting and selling oil portraits for 45 years and of course I've watched a lot of painters on youtube. Lots of good painters but you may be the best instructor I've seen and listened to including college and university profs. You have a very straightforward and clear way to explain anything. Without taking 3 hours to do it! I'm definitely recommending your channel to friends and family.
Can anyone learn portrait painting
Well said, I feel like that exactly. Got more from this video than a whole class
Are u selling?
Yeah the vast majority of art teachers are just terrible at actually teaching, in my experience. This guy actually knows how to teach, and it's an absolute GAME CHANGER.
Best advice I've ever been comforted by: "don't paint individual hairs" THANK YOU!
🐰🐰
Eddie Valiamt. Of course you can paint "individual" hairs. Sometimes that works very well, leaving the eye to fill in the remainder.
Green is my favorite color to incorporate in a skintone. It's just make the skin look realistic.
So far the BEST instructions I’ve ever found! I decided 2023 I’ll learn to paint portraits. I chose your teachings 😊
How has it been going? :)
Every word informative and clearly put. Precision unparalleled.
Thanks. I found this helpful as I am usually a landscape painter but have got a few portraits to do. I went to art school for 5 years and the content of this video is exactly the way we were taught, so this 12 minutes has been a great refresher for me before I start.
Been trying to learn how to paint lately. Even though this guy teaches oil painting and I've been using acrylics, his tutorials helped me so much in trying to learn how to draw still lifes and portraits.
I've watched this video several times in the last 2 days. It is so informative! Basically, I have always worked at DRAWING portraits & have done them well. When I started painting a few years ago, i figured that it was like drawing with color.... Not! That video is a font of information! So many things explained in easy to understand language & examples! Fat over lean, brush sizes, why stand so far away & what happens when too close. Not blending! Wrapping the face with color, etc. I was able to take a too tiny tracing of a face & apply the techniques & was amazed that when I looked at the painting from across the room, after a very short time, BAM! I recognized that face! First time! I think that ALOT of painting teachers have been painting for so long that they leave ALOT out that they automatically do. You answered so many questions. In college, my painting professor taught us how to stretch canvasses & clean brushes & had the still life set up & told us to paint it while he went to his studio & worked on his own stuff. I got an A- in the class, but was basically just drawing with color & knew nothing about painting. I walked away from that class extremely frustrated because I couldn't get what was in my head onto canvas. Thank you Paint Coach!
I have the version of adult adhd that makes me search out and compile lists of a vast assortment of “how-to painting” videos - which I then watch one by one for only 4-5 seconds before clicking on the next... but anyway, “!!!” Why “!!!?” Because I keep watching your entire video videos because they are so chock full of tips and you explain things in a not overly obtuse (verbose?) way. I love this channel, in short. Thank you
Glad you're liking the videos!
Haha Stop "when the painting stops annoying me." That is priceless advice. Thank you sir.
Chris, man that Kobe painting brought tears to my eyes man. He would have appreciated you man. Totally has his authentic smile. Beautiful my man, good on you brother.
Weird
I tried your tips and started out with just the lightest and darkest. It worked sooo good and found it helpful throughout the whole process. Thank you for your informative videos!
Phenomenal teacher, amazing artist, perfect video.
I couldnt see the videos to choose at the end for some reason, just your entrancing facial shapes, values, lines, colour and that little bit of light in your eyes! Hey, it's in there!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing all this information. I’m new to oils and your explanation and teaching of the methods and process is wonderful.
Love your direct and concise style of instruction, and the breakdown of developing a painting!
The advice you offer here is really sound for this approach to painting. The working processes you describe are very useful, especially for people starting out with paint. It is refreshing that, when talking about different processes for getting drawings down initially, you are not judgmental and list a range of methods without placing them in a hierarchy-it is often the case that people regard any form of mechanical assistance as inferior without providing reasonable explanations. Paint and be happy.
This video was chock full of incredibly useful advice, I know I'll be coming back to it a lot!! You deserve way more views
Best tutorials on UA-cam. 👍
All good tips. Best sentence is" When you know anatomy, you see more." Sage advice!
Your work is amazing and your instruction is clear and concise! Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Thank you for the quick and concise summary.. good for people like me that just want to jump in and start..
Amazing! It s like I read one huge book about the subject! You made it in 10 mins! Thanks very much for your effort to educate us
Great stuff. I constantly have to remind myself of these things. Its so easy to ver away from these solid truths that that truly work. Often i find myself trying to take short cuts, never works. Thank you
This is possibly the most helpful video I have ever seen! Not just a painting video.
Thank you for this. SO informational with key points to remember. Have always drawn but want to begin painting into retirement.
Damn, that's a lot of solid advice in under 12 minutes! Thanks Chris, you're awesome!
You deserve way more views and followers! Great work, clean explaining, simple and effective❤️ I will promote you for free and hype you up because definitely deserve it
Much appreciated!
I’ve watched this video before.
I painted a portrait and hated it.
I’ve come back to see what I was doing wrong and a lot of it made much more sense, especially the soft focus picture part.
Hey Chris, I'm new to painting and until now have only been painting landscapes. With a need to further my learning and to understand portraiture, I found your video this morning. Truly engaging and having watched a ton of other videos on the subject, I found yours the most informative and helpful. I'm doing my first portrait today but not of anything of this world, but more a character from a certain horror flick, but I know this video will make me look at it differently. SO, thank you for this great video and for all the others in advance (of which I've seen a few now but will watch all others in time). Have subscribed and am so glad to have found this channel!
You're really a good instructor Paint Coach! hands down.
Excellent ! Not only you are ran amazin painter AND a great instructor !
Thank you. This is great, got my best portrait following this approach.
Really good.... love the speed of which you teach! thanks
"It's easy to see things when you know to look for them" 👍👍👍
Ud es un muy buen profesor ..... lo felicito gracias!
I think portraits are the most challenging as proportions need to be correct to make the subject recognisable. Although caricature artists manage to get away with distorting proportions and still having a recognisable subject.
Making a greyscale of my reference pic and also taking a pic of my painting to desaturate the colours to check tone is one of the most helpful tips in my painting journey.
It's harder to learn to see tone over colour.
So happy I found your channel. Just finished a basic paint sketch for a portrait and thought ok what do I do now? You have answered my question and more... and you're pretty funny too so you are now signed up as my new teacher :)
Good stuff!! The essential information condensed and demonstrated.
Top man, guy you keep doing what you're doing because you come across as genuine & are learning as you teach, you're good at it & will only get better.👏👍
You’re just great! I’m gonna learn with you! Big hug!
Hi Chris, I have just discovered your channel after looking at Art videos over a long period, and your videos are GREAT! and right at the top of all that I have looked at. They are simple and very encouraging for people who want to paint. I have just subscribed so keep up the excellent work. Jim Dean down under in NZ.
Hey Paint Coach! So glad i found you. Really loved this lesson and will check out more! Thank you!
well done! value and color! copy of black and white. anatomy of the face. mirror, upside down, shape, color, value. hair braking simple shaper and value. locks of hair. a darker section of hair. detail at the end. looking like the person. high light, when to stop? mearment, straight line, value.
This was brilliant. Packed with so much good advice and explained clearly. Ignore at your peril.
Everything you say is completely transparent, sensible, clear and touches on what I have learned for myself through trial and error over the last couple of years painting with oils - this is why I trust your videos :) Brill.
Can you do a step by step for using filters to highlight the shapes and values of your subject?
Can’t wait for you to go viral to be able to say I was here since the beginning 😂❤️
I definitely tried to use that coloring book method by drawing on every detail before painting, and it just stressed me out and discouraged me along the way. I figured that if the drawing is good, then the painting will be good as well lol
LOVE this. So thrilled I found your series.
I got more knowledge off this video than my painting classes in college. (Way) back then, they just threw us in and said 'paint'. Maybe that was to learn the tools, strokes and mixing but I found it frustrating to not get more instruction and it made me drop painting for more drawing classes.
Because I started late in life I never had the talent to do this so i take my portrait photos and feed them into my InDesign program, edit to enlarge or decrease to actual head size, print in b/w and use it to trace a copy on the canvas. I know that is terrible, but there are no rules in art😎
I love your intro music Chris! Thanks for the video.
Best advice I've heard in a long time is, take a black and white photo. That really helps. Thanks.
The very first painting seen (=right before the Sargent copy):
what a funky, interesting 'playground' of lights and shadows. Yeah !
😎
How to you find subjects with good shadows in the image.
lol “their both great , just pick one “ love that !
Really great videos. Do you have one especially on the background please? Big fan.
Cheers
Very beautiful painting sir ,,, thank you good idea tech Nik. Step by step artwork life painting. ,, like and share your video and support you godbless you
I just SUBSCRIBED I am here to learn portraits, I watched a couple of these videos and they have helped. Thanks!
PFNK!
Super content! You really crammed a lot of good advice into a short time... Subbed!
Your channel is the best
Super erklärt, werde es auf jeden Fall ausprobieren.
Danke
Hi I have a question
Do you wet the canvas before painting on it to keep it moisturized, or do you just let it dry as you paint??
" i know when to stop when the painting stops annoying me ". ❤
This was soo well explained. Thankyou. 🙏🏼
Short, Precise and Easy to understand Video. May GOD give you 1M Subscriber soon !!
Dude, thank you so much for your great videos!
I am so grateful for your channel. Your videos are amazing!
Thank you for all your help! Do you have a video on what oiling the canvas means and why?
Wow...Great video and SOOO HELPFUL. Thank you !!
i know this video is uploaded years ago but im hoping someone could help me: if you want to make a sketch with charcoal, can you do it on top of canvas thats been applied with linseed oil? because i came across a tip that you can apply linseed on canvas to make smoother outline with oil paint
I watched this 3 times in a row while working on a painting.
Every beginner needs to start somewhere. So the advice here is probably useful for beginners. But at a certain point one needs to seek out higher development by studying top notch painters and by sheer din of applied effort.
Great video with a lot of info packed into a few minutes of teaching. 👍🏼👍🏼
Dude I’ve watched several of your tutorials and had to subscribe. Style 👍🏽
Bro can u make a playlist of all your portrait vids it would definitely help find all the tuts
Wow! You are a fantastic teacher! I so appreciate your time and talent - you have helped me beyond expectation! Cheers!
Happy to help!
Thanks for sharing Chris, it is a very good painting foundation video.
Best portrait advice in 12 minutes!
Vc é um maravilhoso. Que vídeos perfeitos e que professor perfeito pqp 🤩😍
I have an underpainting that came out really well and was wondering if I wanted to keep it like that, but go back over it for a final layer to cover up some pencil marks, would I just do an oil out and glaze?
Excellent quick tutorial!💜
Watching your channel grow has been excellent! You seem to always be able to put out new content which is great. You might be at a size now where you could do critique videos of your followers work. I think sometimes videos like that can be most helpful for young artists because of the personalized touch. :)
Hi, great tutorial, however where are the links that you mention? 😊
In the description
🔥 This is a process rapid fire. You certainly guarantee a rewatch. 😂 I haven't worked with oils yet but...I am a lateral learner. You've also made me more interested and much less anxious at the possibility of an attempt at oil. Lots of topics touched on. Rendering, lighting, shape, composition, anatomy, philosophy, etc. 👏🏼👏🏼 Inspiring to a new UA-cam creator. Benchmark made. o7 Love it. 🤘🏻 Stay tasty.🙏👋🏻👋🏻
You never mentioned when talking about getting a picture on a canvas many of us freehand! Learn it! It takes practice! Or spend that extra hour and a half gridding..😊
Thanks Chris!
So glad I found you. Thank you so much
Thank you!
these are wonderful videos. I'm an intermediate experienced artist and right now I want to work on portraits but I had to go back to the basics. I'm working in the digital media, as well as I would love to start acrylics, gouache and watercolors. Thank you for making the simple stand out points not too complex, but enough for even experienced and beginners to understand. I always look for diff portrait vid tips from diff and multiple artists even if its something I've learned. I like looking at other's work and tips/techniques they list in the vid in case something catches my brain and it clicks and i be sure to take note of it. So far I've watched vids from your channel x3 this week for the first time and I love them. You have beautiful pieces of work and good learning tips & exercises. One thing abt another vid I saw, you mentioned you use a specific photoshop filter. I was wondering when you showed the filter with the color and blue. light, how did you do this? I know it must be in the adjustments region but I wouldn't also know if it was in the filtered section as well. Let me know so I can try to replicate this on some of my references!! thanks for the vid lessons!!
This is a great video! Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent tutorial....
I want to learn . I need to get my focus back
Thanks for the content I’ve Heard the importance of checking the values using a black and white version of the image - have you done a video on how to actually check if it’s correct or not?
Oh and thank you
verry good all this advice. only for me to fast. ik make sevaveral times a break. thanks
Thanks so much man this helped me so much
I was looking for a paint with me with explanations, and it would have been more helpful, if you had focussed on the one portrait and showed the others in the end maybe, bc the fast forward is partially too fast for me (sorry) to see what you were actually doing - how you were laying down the paint. I'm new to this. I'm sorry.
I might not be the target group even but wanted to leave feedback. 😊
You kinda amazing. Great teacher.