child portrait

Hello, everyone. It’s been some time since I did an update on the progress of my Portrait on my Eldest Son. You can find Part1, Part2 and Part3 here.

The part of the portrait that I worked on today was the lower part of the face. I worked on the chin, lips and neck areas and did a bit of touching up around the eyes and nose to get the shading of where the light highlights the top of the lips and nose.

The lips were more difficult than I expected, and I had a hard time making them look real, even though I added darker colours for the shadows and the cresses in the lips themselves. I had to put the pencil down as I was going to destroy what I already created, and my final thought was that I don’t like how they turned out.

As a final note, I started to notice how the paper began to lift and flake as I went over blending the shadows and adding the top colours. I believe this is due to me adding too many layers, but I do hope it isn’t the type of paper I chose, which is standard sketch paper from the local stationery shop.

As a final, final thought I will be continuing with my portrait no matter how the finish looks like, and I have already started sketching out the overall shape of my second eldest son for my next project. Once I have completed these soft pastel portraits, I will move onto acrylic paints and will try my hand at painting my sons, again on canvas.

I hope you enjoyed my latest update and keep an eye out for my next post where I will be working on the final part of the portrait and hope to have a finished project for you all to see.

Today I would like to give you another update on the progress on my Portrait of my Eldest Son. You can find Part1 and Part2 here.

The area that I worked on today was the hair, but I did go over the eyes and nose to make them stand out a bit more by adding darker colours to the shadows. I then went and rubbed out the pencil lines that I used to sketch out the overall shape with the colours that I would use to blend out his lower face and lips.

The hair itself was a challenge as I had to work out how to bring the hair to life. I did this by adding several under colours such as grey, black and white before adding the main colour brown. The most difficult was the highlights of where the light reflected off the crown which gave parts of the hair a golden hue effect.

As much as it sounds that I had a hard time with the hair, I found it very enjoyable and easy to paint.

I hope you enjoyed my latest update and do keep an eye out for my next post where I will be working on the lower portion of my son’s face.