Painting a Portrait: Sabine 

Kinda reminds me of Jojo’s art style

exactly. I prefer this art style over hyper realistic ones.

thelastoilmat he's not a dude.

News to me.

@@E-Kat He's not? I'm pretty sure he is!

Yep, one brush, cleaned with dirty walnut oil between colors. Mud is okay. I try to control what I want to blend by loading or starving my brush. A loaded brush blends less because of the mass of paint being applied. A starved or naked brush does lots of blending. No magic, just years and years of practice. :)

Thank you for replying! You are inspiring ☆

Do you have an alternative to walnut oil? I have a nut allergy, can't really touch it or anything.

Most people use solvents like turpentine to rinse brushes in, but I'm sensitive to fumes. Linseed oil might be an option. It may eventually gum up, though.

Awesome, thanks so much.

Oxi Dization Big brushes go a long way bro!

Thank you! I appreciate your support.

I really appreciate your resolve to educate yourself. So many new artists I come across need to be spoon-fed, and as much as I'd like to help everyone, I literally don't have time for it. I find that moving around the piece and doing as much as I can simultaneously creates better value and color harmony. It's all about relations. One thing influences another, and the more I move around the stronger the relations are.

John, thank you for your response. I really like what you say about on-the-fly, global evaluation and adjustment as you work. I am by nature and experience a pen and ink line artist. Color is something that I have simply have no natural instinct for. When I see your work, and watch you apply what is, for me, such a non-intuitive range of hues, it forces me to stop and think - there is no "wrong" or "right" color, there is only what you make of any given palette. That was the epiphany I mentioned earlier, the moment of liberation. If there is no "wrong", you can't fail; if you can't fail, there's nothing to fear. Well, I'm sure that, given enough time, plenty of "fearless experiments" will be looked back upon as failures! But that's fine, as the most important part is to just get moving down the path in the first place. I suspect the colors you apply are not so random in their selection, as you have travelled this path many times and have certain goals in mind from the moment you start, even if it evolves along the way. Anyway, thank you again for the insights and for inspiring a healthy dose of artistic courage within your audience!

If you look at the beginning, you'll see the artist laying out tones/hues. Try painting something just in whites/grays, then use what ever colors you want over each of the hues. Stick to the hues and forget about color for awhile

angel crisol Break it down:- LINES, SHAPES, VALUES and then COLOUR. Consider TEXTURES as well. A 'style' consists of varying the emphasis of each of these.

Ikr omgggg He is amzzzzing

my feelings exactly!!!!

Thank you, Alan!

I'll take that as a compliment, but there are literally 500+ paintings I've done before this one, many not very good. That's not to say I haven't been lucky. It would totally be awesome to be blessed with magical art skill, though.

Thank you! I'm trying to do this more regularly.

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Glad you enjoyed it!