It Has Been a While Since I Painted Watercolor Portrait

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Hello! How are you? So while cleaning up my room, I saw my watercolor materials, which had been abandoned since I stopped receiving commissions. I felt that I could not do this right now. Today, I decided why not paint again, and maybe I will be back doing commissions again. This is my all-time dream to open a portrait commission, which I have never done. I only experienced doing pet portraits, which I enjoyed so much. I have learned a lot from that experience, and I kind of invested in more professional gear using what I earned from it. I saw the ASEAN Hive Challenge "Paint, Sketch, or Draw." Yeah, maybe this is my chance to paint traditionally again.

Materials I Used:

Watercolor Paints
Two bottle glass with water
Waterspray
Two pallette
Tape
Watercolor Paper 200 gsm

Watercolor Brush
Mechanical Pencil 2mm 2b
Eraser
Paper Towel
White Pen

The Process:

First I prepare the watercolor paper by taping the back of it and taping it to the DIY notebook easel I made LOL. After that, I drew an equal margin on each side to make the reference centered.

The first thing I did was lightly sketch the reference face shapes and measure them to make the proportions equal, when I am satisfied with the proportions I am going to erase the light sketch and I am going to start drawing the line art. I am using a mechanical pencil with a 2b lead.

After I drew the reference I am going to condition the watercolor paint by using water spray and I leave it for a minute to dilute the watercolor paint and I am ready to paint.

After conditioning the watercolor paint, the next thing I do is mix the paints into the palette. For this part, I only used a little paint and more water for the first layer as I proceeded to the process the more paint I used than water. The first part I am going to paint is the skin what I used is Imidazalone yellow which is a cold color with a mix of quinacridone red which is a cold color too. I first painted the part where the shadow is placed.

While the paint on the skin is still drying, I am going to paint another part which is the hair, sometimes watercolor painting is kind of complicated to explain but whenever I watch a video of someone painting a portrait is that why they add pink on the hair but her hair is black, as I paint more and more now I realize~ LOL. Artist's eyes see differently than non-artists which is true.

This time the paint on the skin dried already so I am going to add more layer of paint on the skin. I added detail on the eyes too. The day I painted this portrait the weather was hot so it instantly dried the paints. Next, I painted the hair darker one thing I learned from painting watercolor is to be patient that's it. hehehe

Now the portrait is getting better and better patient is the key for this medium, as you can see the skin is more vibrant now that I added more layers with more paint on it. I added more details of strands of hair to make it more lively and more volumized not flat.

Now that I am satisfied with the skin, I painted the eyebrows and eyes in detail.

After I added the details I am going to add highlights using this white gel pen, I added highlights to the hair eyes, and lips. To make the portrait not look flat I added a blue background around her back.