HOW TO PAINT FACES WITH WATERCOLOR _ Tutorial + Q&A

It is this thing that has allowed artists and creatives and inspiring , you know , individuals to bypass physical location and distance and be able to expose themselves and promote themselves and market them for whatever it is that they want to do .

My suggestion is to go out there and put your work online on social media , on the devi art Twitter , Tumblr Instagram , put it out there and be active about it .

Submit your follow , submit your work to galleries to studios , to magazines , everything just constantly put your name out there by doing so people will see your work and at the end of the day , that is what you want , you want your work to be seen and things will happen to you .

Naturally , opportunities will come to you , for example .

Uh I now work at this art magazine Beautiful Bazaar because I put my work out there .

They found my work , they reached out to me and they asked me to be part of an exhibition .

People seem to be asking for those quite a lot and from fragments of hope , what are your biggest art fears ?

And do you ever feel like you're not good enough at what you do ?

I think what I'm most scared about is fear of failure and not in terms of the eyes of other people , but more so in terms of myself and internally the goals I set out for myself , what I can achieve in the future , whether I'll be able to achieve what I want in the future .

And even just the uncertainty of whether I can actually do this , I think that's kind of a crippling fear the future and not knowing whether I I'll fail or not .

And last but not least , probably my favorite question of all of these from Ali Freakin Jara .

I just love your art .

Um Thank you .

Uh II , I love you too .

And that brings us to the end of the Q and A segment .

Thank you guys all so much for all your questions .

Please do continue to ask more questions , you know , put them down in the comments below and I'll be sure to use them for more future Q and A videos .

Once again , a huge thank you to squarespace for sponsoring this video and for providing me with an awesome new website .

Yes .

Yeah .

Kellog Loops has a new website .

I am still tweaking and working on it , but it's been a blast and I love it so far .

If you do want to try designing your own website portfolio or online shop of your own , go to www dot squarespace dot com forward slash Kellogg Loops .

You do get to start off with a free trial and also a 10% off discount from your first purchase or domain .

It is honestly so simple and easy to use with loads of clean designs .

I mean , hey , even I managed to put together my own website and I think that says a lot and that brings us to the end of today's video .

I do hope you guys enjoyed hanging out with me today .

I know this video was a bit different but please do let me know in the comments below if you guys do want more of these kinds of videos where I just hang out paint and talk .

I hope you guys are having an awesome day and I'll see you soon .

And you'll start to notice that your skin will eventually start to pop .

I found that one of the coolest things about water color is that the initial colors that you start off with don't necessarily mean that they are the exact same colors that you'll end up with .

At the end because of the layering techniques here , you can see that I'm starting off with a bit more of a yellow tinge , yellow base skin tone .

And by the end of it , you'll see that the skin tones look similar to the other paintings to the other faces .

And it's because of the way I've built those skin tones and the forms .

So I started off with that very washed out yellow .

And now I'm building in the reds .

And by doing so , by using different base layers and initial skin layers , these colors do eventually pop out and make the skin glow .

So under painting all those under layers are also very important and they can change the colors in the way they look at the very end to demonstrate another example here , I'm trying to paint a darker skin tone , which by the way , I don't often paint darker skin tones .

I'm not that used to them or experience , but I wanted to give it a shot .

For example , sake , you can see me here .

I'm painting more with a muted brown for those initial layers .

And I'm adding some blue undertones for those shadows as well .

From there , I'm starting to add more darker browns until those shadows and those forms really start to take shape and pop out .

Also for those who are wondering how to paint highlights when it comes to skin .

The technique for doing highlights in watercolor is to actually leave specific areas unpainted .

So areas that are unpainted are considered highlights or white .

For this example , I've left the inner corner of the eye , um part of the eyelid and the forehead as unpainted areas .

This is where where the highlights of the skin will occur .

Alright .

So from this point on , I'm just gonna continue painting this tutorial has been a bit brief in terms of how I paint skin and I do intend on creating a more in-depth tutorial on how I paint skin as well as other skin tones .

So that will come in the future .

But for now , this will do for the rest of the process , it's pretty much the same .

I'm just using water and dry technique to put down those first darker brighter colors and just using a pulling technique to spread those colors out and get that soft blend of the skin .

So without further ado , it's Q and a time I've been uh I've been actually really excited to finally do a Q and A session .

All right to you .

So the first question we have is from Pr and it is , when is your my favorite part of the day to work ?

And what do you eat for breakfast ?

Ok .

First of all , that's kind of cheating because it's two questions in one , but I'll answer it anyway .

Um , my favorite part of the day to work is at night .

Actually , I'm a bit of a night owl .

I find myself most productive at night just because I find comfort in the thought that the world is just a little bit more quiet .

It's easier for me to work knowing that .

And I don't actually eat breakfast often .

I , I tend to skip breakfast because I prefer to sleep in .

Alright .

So we've got another cheater here with another two questions from Cup of Joe .

What's your favorite part of art school ?

And do you have any pets ?

The thing I love most about art school is probably being able to have art friends .

I never really grew up with any art friends .

So I never got to get excited about going art supply shopping or anything , you know .

And now I do and it's , and it's awesome .

I , I don't have any pets .

Sadly , I do want a dog so desperately .

And at some point in my life I have to get a dog and I will name him or her fish from Sophia .

Is there any medium that you would like to try in the future that you haven't yet ?

I want to really try out spray painting .

I would love to one day be able to do a giant mural .

It would be awesome to be able to see my work one day on a giant , you know , side of the building or something .

I think that would be sick from Montana Sullivan .

Uh What do you use for your digital work ?

I currently use a Wacom into Pro with Adobe Photoshop .

But when I first started with digital art , I used paint tool site .

It's this program which I think is absolutely awesome .

It's much more affordable and has really , really great uh intuitive skill sets and tools .

It's the program that I used before Photoshop .

And then eventually , once I got more used to paint to sign and painting digitally , I eventually was able to switch over to Photoshop and still maintain a lot of those skill sets that I developed from paint to Psy .

So if you're beginning out in digital art or you wanna try it out , I highly highly recommend paint tools and from shaked near 91 .

Uh What are your suggestions for the out of States artists thing to make their way into the art industry , social media , full stop .

If you're out of the States and you wanna make it into the industry or you want to get into a name or work out there .

Social media is your answer .

It is this thing that has allowed artists and creatives and inspiring , you know , individuals to bypass physical location and distance and be able to expose themselves and promote themselves and market them for whatever it is that they want to do .

My suggestion is to go out there and put your work online on social media , on the devi art Twitter , Tumblr Instagram , put it out there and be active about it .

Submit your follow , submit your work to galleries to studios , to magazines , everything just constantly put your name out there by doing so people will see your work and at the end of the day , that is what you want , you want your work to be seen and things will happen to you .

Naturally , opportunities will come to you , for example .

Uh I now work at this art magazine Beautiful Bazaar because I put my work out there .

They found my work , they reached out to me and they asked me to be part of an exhibition .

And then before you know it , I was working at the magazine and now I'm the designer of the magazine from 246 .

Willow , 246 .

I'm currently doing my major artwork for my HSC in visual arts .

And I don't know whether to continue the artwork in watercolor or explore other mediums .

I always find myself going back to watercolor because that's what I love .

And I feel like I'm not detailed or skilled enough to produce the work .

What are your suggestions ?

I'm stuck .

OK .

I relate to this very , very strongly because this is exactly where I was back in my high school uh equivalent of HSE which was V ce .

My advice straight up is do it explore other mediums and try painting in a completely different medium that you're not comfortable with .

For me , it was digital art .

So I only ever painted with digital art and I was confident in that and I hated painting in any other medium other than digital .

But for my high school art subject final , we were forced to experiment with another medium .

And I decided to just try out watercolor and flash forward a couple of years now , I'm doing watercolor paintings as a career and I'm , I'm doing all of this and you never know what you'll love .

You never know if it will work with you and if you'll love it and you'll excel in it and you'll be a master of it .

Just give it a shot , please .

For my sake , please give it a shot from Ska Lily .

What do you see yourself ?

Doing in five years .

Um That's kind of a hard question because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow , let alone a week or a year or five years from now .

But I think I'd like to imagine myself in five years time to be a full time working professional artist .

A youtuber as well .

And I also really , do you want to start teaching ?

And from Ikram Kalam ?

Are you planning to upload any more tutorials ?

And what do you think you should upload ?

Uh Yes , I'm planning to upload more tutorials .

I do want to do a lot more on how to paint faces and skin and techniques and everything .

Yeah , I think I'd love to keep doing tutorials .

People seem to be asking for those quite a lot and from fragments of hope , what are your biggest art fears ?

And do you ever feel like you're not good enough at what you do ?

I think what I'm most scared about is fear of failure and not in terms of the eyes of other people , but more so in terms of myself and internally the goals I set out for myself , what I can achieve in the future , whether I'll be able to achieve what I want in the future .

And even just the uncertainty of whether I can actually do this , I think that's kind of a crippling fear the future and not knowing whether I I'll fail or not .

And last but not least , probably my favorite question of all of these from Ali Freakin Jara .

I just love your art .

Um Thank you .

Uh II , I love you too .

And that brings us to the end of the Q and A segment .

Thank you guys all so much for all your questions .

Please do continue to ask more questions , you know , put them down in the comments below and I'll be sure to use them for more future Q and A videos .

Once again , a huge thank you to squarespace for sponsoring this video and for providing me with an awesome new website .

Yes .

Yeah .

Kellog Loops has a new website .

I am still tweaking and working on it , but it's been a blast and I love it so far .

If you do want to try designing your own website portfolio or online shop of your own , go to www dot squarespace dot com forward slash Kellogg Loops .

You do get to start off with a free trial and also a 10% off discount from your first purchase or domain .

It is honestly so simple and easy to use with loads of clean designs .

I mean , hey , even I managed to put together my own website and I think that says a lot and that brings us to the end of today's video .

I do hope you guys enjoyed hanging out with me today .

I know this video was a bit different but please do let me know in the comments below if you guys do want more of these kinds of videos where I just hang out paint and talk .

I hope you guys are having an awesome day and I'll see you soon .