How to Paint Watercolor Portraits 👩🏻‍🎨 Tips & Techniques

#watercolor #portrait #watercolortutorial

This video is for everyone who is struggling with watercolor faces, looking for tips on skin palette, and wants to elevate their portrait skills in general. Let me share my full process, favorite watercolor techniques, and of course the pigments that work best for skin tones 💝 Enjoy!

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[TrueLoveX]

I would love to see you do portraits of people in different stages of life to see how you handle the wrinkles that are a part of aging. Lastly, I am so enjoying my Patreon membership that for next month I am bumping up to your top tier to show my appreciation for the immense planning, time and thorough explanations you include (and the many links and listed resources) in every tutorial you share. Thank you!!! ❤

[NatashaRoper-brnk]

Wow! This was so helpful! Breaking down the skin colors and why and how we perceive them is amazing. I will need to watch this about 100 more times to make it penetrate my thick skull. Your work is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent!

[katm]

Wish you would do more portraits! I particularly liked how you added green and blue commenting on blood patterns in skin tones

[SKN]

I find watercolour very difficult for portraits. This was a very helpful video. Thank you!

[jilliancrawford]

Thank you sp much for explaining the blue/green effect in subsurface scattering! I've only ever heard of subsurface scattering being how the blood adds red to the transparency of the skincells and never understood how/why the blueish green effect happened. Now that I know the sience behind it, I can make the shadows even better! Thank you!!
People think I'm weird or trying to take a backwards and wrong approach in my art in needing to know the science behind why things work the way they do to make my art more accurate. I've seen people paint shadows on skin as literal blues and greens and always gound it to be wrong because I didn't understand why (that and maybe the examples had the blues and greens overpower the actual skintone to where it looked wrong lol) but now I know why and how to use it correctly!

[eramcharitar]

This video was so helpful. I have just started to try painting portraits and I really would be interested in seeing videos about how to paint darker skin tones, particularly brown skin tones with a warm undertone. I find a lot of tutorials online just focus on fairer skin tones. When I have found tutorials on darker skin tones they are usually for dark skin tones with a cool undertone. I would like to understand how to better capture a warm undertone with darker skin.

[charlene]

I just want to say how glad I feel to have found your channel and your teaching! Awesome awesome tips! I'm so excited to learn with your tutorials. (beginner here.:))

[anamikakhatriart]

Would love to more tutorials on portrait painting in watercolor ❤
This was helpful 👍

[tabbi]

What an extremely beautiful portrait this is, absolutely gorgeous 😍. The thing I love most about your work is the delicate and subtle shifting of colours that create so much depth and interest. The colour choices in all your work results in a mesmerising effect that's just an absolute pleasure to view. Thanks for sharing your wonderful tips with us, it's fantastic that you share so much knowledge with us its so inspirational. Thanks again .

[jillellen]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this fantastic video! I am currently a pastel artist but after watching you work, I think I'm going to cross over to watercolor. Thanks again!!

[nathalieheath]

Beautiful! I do think this background takes away from the light and fairy like quality that you were able to achieve in the little girl

[rimattiman]

Beautiful video ❤️ I would love to see you work on African and Indian faces (especially with their jewellery)

[tejashvijhariya]

Im so scared 🥺 it's my first time to make a realistic portrait by watercolors. Bcs I'm making my mom's portrait i wanna give her a surprise i hope it will not ruined in the last🙁

[Jesus-lives-inside-me]

More portrait lessons please!! Fantastic video! Thank you!

[l.olenska]

Just an appreciation post for the quality of your video, editing, ambience, voice, frames, I rarely watched a so pleasant art tutorial. Thank you ❤

[ChrissieNicely]

Your work is always beautiful and so is this painting. Which Alternative to opera rose would you reccommend, though?

[jojo_watercolors]

Is there anything you can’t paint?😄 beautiful painting Anna! Personally I hate portraits hahha just because I dislike people in general 😆 but I sure am able to appreciate your technique and skills! Beautiful

[sravanthip]

I would really like if u can explain the same concepts with dark skin tones. I always miss the shadow parts for darker skin tone, it would be helpful if u can guide in those topics.

[tinageronimo]

What a great tutorial. Currently embarking on the watercolor portraits journey and find this video really helpful! Thank you. 💜

[damianni]

I’m trying to pick up painting with watercolour just so I can paint my bf. We’re long distance and the only way I can think of bringing us closer at the moment is through my own imagination so this is really helpful. Thank you ❤