Watercolor Baby Portrait Tutorial - Painting Soft Skin & Subtle Colors
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- In this tutorial I share my step by step process for painting this closeup baby portrait.
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1) Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors
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4) 🎨 Winsor & Newton Transparent Orange ➡️ bit.ly/3aBFQFi
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6) 🖌️ Escoda Versatil Brush - Pointed Round, Size 8, Short Handle ➡️ bit.ly/33KDpQr
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Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro
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Better than most of the Skillshare paid watercolor portrait tutorials.
Wow, thank you so much!
Thank you! I get to paint a newborn, he’s VERY pink, I will use lots of layers, thanks for the instruction!
👍👍I have to agree with the previous comment, regarding, 'how to paint a child's portrait'. I have sketched the picture of my two year old great grandson and am ready to add colour. I've been looking at many other tutorials and so many do not tell the actual colour, many just ignore this altogether. So, Thank You so very much for giving me the confidence to start adding the colour. Your example is a little younger than my boy, but I'm sure the colours will be much the same, and anyway it was how you went about the whole painting. I am especially impressed as to how you did the eyes and the mouth, but mainly the eyes. Well done, and Thank you again for this amazing tutorial. Your work is the BEST. 😄😃🌹
Thank you for this generous and kind comment! I am thrilled to hear this was helpful to you!
So cute! Thanks, Emily!
Baby skin! The most difficult thing ever, and you have cracked it with ease. Thank you for this inspiring video.
Thank you so much!
After your portrait of a toddler and this one (my husband saw my humble attempts) he has requested I continue with your fearless membership and paint our grandchildren! Thank you Emily :)
Oh that’s wonderful! What a gift it will be to paint your grandchildren!
The delicate flesh tones are so beautifully painted this portrait glows.
Thank you, Donna!
One of the best demonstrations I’ve ever watched…..thank you !
Wow, thank you!
Wow! So great. I loved watching you add the many layers.
Thanks, Debbie!
All great advice and presented so well
Glad you think so! 😊
I usually paint portraits in oils and I'm good at it, today I tried my first portrait in watercolours and it was a complete disaster, LOL.
With the help of your video and a few others I've watched, I'll fix the portrait tomorrow.
Thanks, stay cool. 😄✌
Glad the video was helpful! It's SO different from oils! Definitely a learning curve, lol.
@@EmilyOlsonArt with oils you can cover your mistakes, in watercolours if you try to cover adding more paint you make it worse!!
Thanks for your reply, take care.
Hi Emily, very helpful tutorial.I like the way you voice over so we get all the details and instruction concisely (without the extra chatter) Thankyou for that😀. Did you stretch this paper beforehand if not what weight was it.?What is the white border tape called. Thanks heaps
I appreciate your comment! This is just a 140lb cold pressed 5x7" block, so due to the small size and the fact that it's on a block, no stretching is necessary. I think I just used Blick Artists Tape for the border.
Amazing! 🤩
Thanks! 😄
Have struggled to get smooth skin, but your tutorial really helps me understand how to accomplish that. Thanks!
You are so welcome!
That portrait is awesome! I’m watching it over and over to get it right…just perfect! Thanks for sharing your awesome talent.
Thank you so much 😀
WOW! Sweet baby!
Adorable little face! You have painted the eyes so well 🎨
A good tutorial, a lovely face.
There is a Lasur Umber / transparent umber by Schmincke
It looks great and sweet. Wonderful colors and good tip to keep the colors transparent. 🙏
Thanks so much 😊
Such a beauty, thank you for sharing online.
Love this
Love this. Beautiful. You are so talented.
You are so sweet, thank you!
👍🏻☝🏻This is without question the absolute BEST and most specific tutorial (in a perfect way!) for portraiture in watercolor I have EVER SEEN (& I have been looking for just this style for what feels like months). Thank you for clarifying some of the few looming concerns I have been carrying, regarding adding layers & other random specifics, which for some reason no one else has addressed (to my awareness)! I cannot thank you enough, nor can my future portraits😂😂!!! God bless you-You do simply incredible work, and are a truly gifted instructor!!!❤️❤️ 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a kind and thoughtful comment! Thank YOU!
Love your work, it's amazing. Thank you for all the explanations 💖
I love love this tutorial, I've wanted to paint my granddaughter but have been scared with skin tones this will give me some great practice working up to doing her. Thank you kindly for sharing, your extremely talented and I enjoy your channel 🙏😘
I’m glad you feel inspired! I do hope you’ll try it. ❤️
That's so helpful, thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful!
beautiful Emily...you always make it look so easy!! much thanks for sharing your talent!
I appreciate that, Deborah!
Lovely tutorial! Just getting into portraits, and watercolors. Super nicely explained!!! Wow!!!
Thank you so much 😀
Really nice! I will definitely have to give this a shot!! And the cutie face really brightened my day!
Amazing artistry!
Amazing! So beautiful. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you! 🙂
That’s adorable and thanks for sharing the every details on your painting. It’s very helpful for me. ☺️💕
Beautiful. What a blessing to have developed the skills to be able to create such lifelike portraits of your loved ones. Inspiring!
Thanks for your kind comment! 🙂
I’m starting a painting of my baby and this tutorial was just what I needed. Thanks!
How perfect! Hope it’s helpful!
Beautiful baby, awesome painting
Thank you! My nephew is very beautiful. :-)
super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super art
Brilliant! Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Emily your work is amazing ...congratulation ...
Thanks so much, Cathy!
So perfect! You are awesome at what you do!!!!
You're so sweet!
You are amazing! I am just now going from charcoal to water color and love doing portraits so needed some instruction and your video is very helpful
I’m so glad!
Excellent, thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing, beautiful! Beautiful!
Awesome job!!
Thanks!
Really great! I am working on a baby portrait commission and frozen with fear!!! Your baby is lovely. My subject has brown eyes (really dark). What colors are best for this? Thank you SO much
I tend to use my combo of burnt sienna and ultramarine for brown eyes. :)
When she said hit that like button 😅✌🏻i subscribed 💜✌🏻
Such a cute baby! Beautiful 🥰
Great tutorial! Thank you!
Hi 👋🏻 This is so good! You expain what you are doing with water and colors! Thank you.
Oh...can i ask what paper you use? I know you cotton and really good paper, but I'm getting back into watercolors after 40 years lol! ❤️🙏🏻✝️
Skin can be very complex to paint, but you did an amazing job 💯
I appreciate that!
Do a full tutorial please i too wanna learn to make this its too good!!💗
There is a complete tutorial in my Watercolor Mastery Membership. :)
very very beautiful !!!!
Very good!
Thanks!
Exelente trabajo
Thank you. So helpful!!!
Great info thank you so much for sharing .
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing work!! But can you also comment on the difficulty level of this..can a beginner artist attempt it?
Beautiful!!!!!😅
Just lovely .. thank you! What brand/size brushes have you used here? Lovely points and paint retention
Thank you! For the broader washes I used Escoda Versatil size 8 round, and for details I used my Silver Black Velvet size 4 round. 🙂
well done i love it
Wow!!!!!
Awesome
This is awesome
Thank you, Debbie!
What is your transparent orange color? Very helpful, thank you!
It’s by Winsor & Newton! 🙂
Thanks
A really wonderful tutorial! I appreciate it when you call out your color mixes. Thank you.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
This was a great training video. Just what I was looking for. But, is there an actual list of colors you mentioned, Emily? I've repeated the video several times and know I still didn't get the whole list. Sorry, on my part😢 4:46
Great tutorial do you recommend hot or cold press and should we use a heavier weight like 300 lb.
Hi Donna! I prefer cold pressed paper because it handles tons of wet in wet layers better than hot press. 140lb is fine, especially for smaller pieces. Larger than 9x12, however, you’ll want to either paint on a paper block (with the sides glued down) or prestretch your paper, or go with the heavier weight 300lb paper.
Hi Emily, I have to agree with all of the previous comments :). You definitely are a great artist!! Thank you for sharing the names of the colors you used. This is a a great tutorial and I feel inspired in pairing my daughters in watercolor 😊 Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
Thank you
Welcome!
I'm doing my first person painting of a little girl. She has very curly wavy hair. Is there a certain way you should paint her hair?
Your demo is so helpful..thankyou..from pauline
You are so welcome!
I'm glad to see a tutorial on portraits. Something out of the ordinary from landscapes and animals. You did an awesome job.
Thank you, Maria!
Hi Emily, lovely painting! I am painting a baby from a picture that is having a lot of shadow. I can not see the pupils. I would like to paint them, but don't know how to determine the right position of the pupils. The baby is looiing a bit to the richt. I can see in your painting that one pupil is more in the center and the other is not. Is there a rule how to determine their position?
Hmm, I'm sure if there is a rule for pupil placement, but if you can't see it in the reference photo, it might look most realistic if you paint the larger values and shapes that you see, rather than trying to peer too deeply into the shadows. Best of luck with your painting! ❤️
Thank you, Emily, for so many extremely helpful hints! Could you give me a ballpark guess as to what would be a fair price for a commissioned 11” x15” watercolor portrait of 2 year old girl? I did one for a friend for free, and it turned out really well, but I’m curious as to how to price something like this in the future. If there is a way to send a picture only to you of what I did I will do that if you want. Thank you.
Hi Louisa! What you charge really depends on your level of experience, size and difficulty of artwork, and ultimately-you should charge enough so you won’t feel resentful, but not so much that it’s above market rate. Pricing is a very individual thing.
Thank you, Emily, I appreciate your advice. And please keep posting these tutorials, they are the best that I’ve seen for portraits.
Do you have any tips on painting hair on babies? I'm painting a picture of my baby brother, but I realized his hair is noticeable as it's dark,, but thin and I'm a beginner so I don't know how to go about it.
I would just use a very small brush and a careful feathering motion for each strand. :-)
Which paper are you using? Pls say
Top 😘
What do you mean by transparent? And how do you get it?
You briefly touched on using transparent colors vs "murky" color. Would love to see more on this for children's skin tones. Good job!
Which company's brush you use
Mam can we use printer paper
It's not recommended. Use cotton watercolor for best results!
Hello, your work is very valuable. I am really a fundamentalist. Thank you. Please bring a real photo of the portrait or nature of the sea, forest, sky, mountain and teach how to mix the color for its various components to turn it into a watercolor painting. If you have a lot of training, the channel will be very welcome, in which case your effort will have an educational burden. Thank you. Please teach this type of color mix training a lot. Thank you very much for your efforts.
Which company's colour you use
Hey there! All the supplies I use are listed in the description below the video. :)
Merci !
Thank you so much!