Acrylics Need some guidance here please!

[pmfs]

Hi guys, i´ve started today this great bust from Ares, my 1st attempt with acrylics in this scale.
I think this guy needs more blending, but I cant do better
What you think about it?
Any suggestions?
I work with Andrea color set.

 

[gordy]

Eyes look great Pedro, I'd guess a little shading within the shadows? I'm not painting expert though

 

[Meehan34]

Pedro; Go check out Dimitrios' website "artinscale.com" and look at the SBS on the norman knight. He walks through painting flesh in acrylics, it is a saviour. Are you thinning down the paint enough and wiping the brush almost clean? this is how the blending is done. I have also used the andrea flesh set and notice the colors can be very harsh if not totally thinned down to almost colored water and layerd on. He looks pretty good and could just use some filtering with the watered down shadows and highlites to creat the midtones.

 

[pmfs]

Eyes look great Pedro, I'd guess a little shading within the shadows? I'm not painting expert though

I think it is.
Thanks Gordy!

 

[pmfs]

Pedro; Go check out Dimitrios' website "artinscale.com" and look at the SBS on the norman knight. He walks through painting flesh in acrylics, it is a saviour. Are you thinning down the paint enough and wiping the brush almost clean? this is how the blending is done. I have also used the andrea flesh set and notice the colors can be very harsh if not totally thinned down to almost colored water and layerd on. He looks pretty good and could just use some filtering with the watered down shadows and highlites to creat the midtones.

Hi Mike!

Only paint shadows and lights.
The blending process is with highlites and shadow colors mixed very thinned?
Filters, wich color the application mode???

Thanks

 

[gothicgeek]

Hi Pedro!

I use the 3 colour technique, a very light highlight, a dark shader and a colour to bridge them, thin glazes of the mid colour will form the transition with the option to apply more shade or highlight for effect..

But all these would be applied very thinned and with a damp brush, not wet..

Takes some practice but can give very dramatic effects

HTH

Mark

 

[tonydawe]

As a final step Pedro, I always brush over the face with a clean wet 0 size brush, to give a final blend, without adding any more paint. You can use a damp clean brush to remove any excess paint or small hairs and dust that might accumulate on the surface.

The final step for me, usually involves washing a very dilute filter colour over the flesh areas, using white spirits and oil paint (or pastel chalk). Purple is a good filter colour, as it includes both red and blue.

 

[pmfs]

As a final step Pedro, I always brush over the face with a clean wet 0 size brush, to give a final blend, without adding any more paint. You can use a damp clean brush to remove any excess paint or small hairs and dust that might accumulate on the surface.

Thanks Tony!

The final step for me, usually involves washing a very dilute filter colour over the flesh areas, using white spirits and oil paint (or pastel chalk). Purple is a good filter colour, as it includes both red and blue.

This filter can be applied all over the face?
The filter is apllied many times (time for drying each coat) until the desire effect achieved, or just one time?

My transition to acrylics are dificult at this stage, in 1:35 the things are pretty easy.

Thanks!

 

[pmfs]

Hi Pedro!

I use the 3 colour technique, a very light highlight, a dark shader and a colour to bridge them, thin glazes of the mid colour will form the transition with the option to apply more shade or highlight for effect..

But all these would be applied very thinned and with a damp brush, not wet..

Takes some practice but can give very dramatic effects

HTH

Mark

Can you tell me in your case wich colors you used?

Just an example:
If I used for base Arena Marron vallejo 132
For lights Light Flesh 6 and for shadows Light brown 129, in this case wich color I must used to blend all flesh area?
Perhaps a mid tone between light flesh and light brown, maybe sunny skin tone 20?

Thanks!

 

[gothicgeek]

Sunny Skintone is a good transition colour but try Basic Skintone as your highlight colour, save Light Flesh for things like the very highest highlights, the nose, tops of cheeks etc

 

[Ferris]

Hi Pedro,

I am still surprised about the power of acrylics: you can really very much dilute the paint and it still has an effect. Too much dilution and it just takes more layers (let dry in between, maybe one minute or two). To blend just keep going over the border of the two contrasting areas with that very diluted paint.
Key point is that your brush is damp, not wet. It is right when there is no miniature 'puddle' of paint at the end of your stroke.
Paint dilution IMO is the same for blending as for a filter: very very thin. The pigments are strong enough to still leave a trace. A trick is to treat only one half of the face at the time. By keeping the other half for later, you can slowly start to see differences between the halves of the face. Otherwise I find it hard to keep track of what's going on.

Hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[pmfs]

Mark and Adrian, thanks its hard leave the oils and paint with acrylics. I need more pratice .

cheers