clips from 'Painting Portraits by Mark Carder'

[chomanthapa]

You are the only artist with youtube that gets the color spot on, all others show demonstrations but are never accurate with their color reproduction. Thank you sir.

[Wakeupgrandowl]

JFC guys, those of you who are complaining about his 'copying' know nothing about the business of realistic paintings and drawings or portraiture. They want it to be a perfect representation but with the feel and look of a painting that makes it opulent and regal. Almost no one is going to sit like they did in the 17th century, ect. for a portrait anymore it just isn't really done. That being said I think more expression and interpretation in colour would be nice BUT he knows his clientele, he's a living working artist who seems to be doing well. Are you!? So what do you really know.

[mnk_]

your wife is one of the most elegant and gorgeous women i've ever seen, and you do justice to her with your experience and skills in your portrait, I love your work and tutorials than you so much for putting these out there.

[michaelking]

I appreciate your sharing this ... for those who call it "cheating" I would like for them to post a link to their work and let us see how well they can do, photo or not!  Bravo for your wonderful paintings!

[techmorning]

For those talking nonsense about his process, if you would have taken the time to see more of his videos, specially the series of 3 clips "how to draw in proportion", "how to mix colors with oil paint" and "how to paint oil", you would have known how anyone can apply these techniques to still life compositions or even to a posing person, without the needs of a photography. It's a very similar method, but using his color checker instead of painting over a photo. If you haven't already, go and check these videos NOW!! :-)

Regarding to the use of a photography, well, not everyone can have someone posing for hours just for us to practice. Anyways Mark has also mentioned in several videos that after years of practice with this method, he has trained his eye to see the right colors without the need of doing all of this. So take this video as as a learning process method, not as something to keep doing forever. Once you have trained your eye to see the right colors, you will no longer need to do this.

[mylinedimascio]

A big thank you to Mark for this video and all the other help he has put forward for us artist wannabe's, you've been a great help...

[maxcohen]

Did anyone else see the photo thinking it was the finished painting and think _"Holy crap! This guy is good."_ ?

[fuu]

Many don't realise this is a course, maybe that's ONE way to start. He knows how to paint without photos.

[lisengel]

This clip is showing how fantasric you are in observing and blending every nuance if you should not know already from having watched all the wonderfull possibilities on DrawMixPaint. I am truly a great admirer of you and your way of sharing your knowledge

[ratishsharma]

When photography came, it killed urge of artists to create realistic paintings, steadily pushing art to almost trash like stuff by some. I feel that few artists nowadays are trying to recreate the magic of realistic painting. It is not easy and requires great patients and skill to accomplish realistic art. These artists should be highly appreciated by all. I paint abstract, but I have sincere respect for realistic artists.

[NeverFearMistakes]

Jaw dropping art skills! I love it! I wish I could be your student, I draw realism portraits, never tried painting realism portraits. Amazing!

[dustinmeritt]

I love your techniques for color matching, I enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing

[DrawMixPaint]

Color Mixing is covered in my free youtube video "how to mix colors from life". It is also covered in more depth on the Still Life video I sell for $20 on my drawmixpaint site where you purchased the portrait vid.

[thecreativehuman]

At 1:17 I thought that was the model. When you raised your brush, my heart stopped for a second.
Fabulous work!

[schalkbloem]

i can paint, but will never be this good, or come even close to being half this good. EXTRAORDINARY!!!

[LeeHill]

In the days of the Old Masters if you wanted a portrait you had to have it painted. Models had to pose for hours at a time for days. You cannot ask models to do that today when we have cameras. If any artist paints a "realistic portrait" like that today I would like to know. A photo is a tool for the portrait artist and if the Old Masters had access to this tool they would have used it.

[HansWurst-fysw]

Marc loves painting and fkn believe me he loves all who want to paint, money is another universe we all cannot handle.

[booker]

I really like the way you write portrait. at 1:26 I see a palette of colors. Left colored and black and white on the right. what colors you use to create a flesh-colored? thanks for the answer!

[p.marymanrod]

Thank you for sharing your painting and photography techniques. They were very enlightening.

[melvynn]

People tell me I’m talented, and then I see what you do and I want to cry. 🤣🥰🥰🥰🥰