Trying To Paint T.O.P Using Acrylic Paint. It’s Been A While

Hello, how are you? The weather yesterday is Gloomy so I decided to paint using acrylic again because what's the point of not using it hehe, and I am scared to ruin alot of paintbrush again but I set aside that fear and encourage myself to paint again, for the past week I've been trying to sketch portrait on a canvas panel but nothing works so I gave up and then I saw that canvas lying around and I tried to do it again and I guess I like the outcome of the sketch so I painted it. Took me days to finish it. But worth it though, I thought I could not paint acrylic as I did before LOL, but I survived.

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Materials I Used:

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Time To Paint!

I first sketch the reference on the canvas panel using pencil and eraser and then I prepare all the materials I need.

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And I pour the acrylic paints I needed on a palette that has a tissue that is wet and under the glassine to prevent the paint being dry fast.

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And before I start painting the portrait, I am going to tone the canvas first with burnt sienna using this makeup brush I bought years ago.

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I paint just enough to cover the whites on the canvas.

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And then I used a hot blower to dry it quickly.

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I layer it with red under the skin, and I thought that would work LOL. And before the sketch gets erased completely, I outline it using the darkest brown I have on my palette.

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I keep trying to layer it with different skin colors, and I thought this was not going to work, and I remembered that that is how it works, weird phase at first, but keep going.

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Before I lost my mind, I added color to the other part of the portrait just for me to figure it out in the future on what technique I am going to use to fix the skin LOL.

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I just keep layering it until I perfect the right skin color.

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And one of the solutions is to add background color, and I guess that helps.

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Fix the iconic tie and then the suit.

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Finish everything with highlights.

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I decided to finalize everything before I lost my mind. Here is the close-up look so you can see the effort I made layering everything LOL.

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Here is the tie and the mic.

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I hope you like it! :D

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Thank you for visiting, see you on my next blog. :D
Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))

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