Work [repack]: Fundamentals To Mastering Stylized Portrait Painting Class

Let’s assume you have your sketch. You have your shapes. Now, how do you execute the paint to look professional, not flat?

Week 1 — Foundations

Squares and rectangles suggest stability, strength, and stubbornness. Let’s assume you have your sketch

Instead of drawing every wrinkle on a lip, paint the top lip as a single dark plane (since it angles downward away from overhead light) and the bottom lip as a lighter plane catching the light. Reduce the eyes to clean, graphic shapes, ensuring the white of the eye (sclera) is kept slightly muted so it does not pop out unnaturally. 6. Strategic Color Theory

One of the most common pitfalls in student portraiture is "flatness." To master stylization, you must treat the head as a series of 3D forms—spheres, cylinders, and boxes—rather than a flat drawing. Week 1 — Foundations Squares and rectangles suggest

In a stylized class, you will learn to stop using "skin color."

Convey strength, reliability, or stubbornness. Maximize Critique and Reference Materials

Start your class work by blocking in the major planes of the face (forehead, cheeks, nose bridge, chin) using flat shapes.

Manage your paint drying times in traditional studios by applying thin acrylic washes early on, and layering thicker oils over them later. 6. Maximize Critique and Reference Materials