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PROCESS VIDEO // self portrait
🕑 Added 2022-10-11 09:00:04 +0000 UTCIt’s my birthday, so here’s a video of my face! 😂 It’s the full process for the self portrait that I drew last month. It’s sped up to twice the original speed, and it took me about 2 hours to paint this one.
Some things to keep in mind while watching this video:
- This is a typical example of a process where I ‘sculpt’ with color. This is because I’m drawing myself from a mirror reflection and my perception of my face just keeps changing as I’m drawing! The initial sketch just doesn’t work after a while, so I end up just painting over a lot of it and really winging it as I go, taking more of a sculpting approach and trying to use the colors on the canvas as much as I can while doing so.
- I also use the liquify tool quite a lot. I guess that’s the result of focusing less on construction and more on the sculpting technique. This helps me make some basic adjustments to the positioning of the features and structure of the face. I feel like liquify is always a helpful tool to use as long as you dont over-do it!
- Around 36:50 minutes in, I darken the lighter tones with selective color (by tweaking the 'whites') and then I add bright highlights to the face. This is something that happens sometimes when I try to paint a lot of detail: the contrast starts to become too extreme, and it’s harder to really get the highlights to ‘pop’ because they're competing with too many lighter areas. In that case, I find it really helpful to reduce the contrast a bit and then add brighter highlights minimally. That way, they stand out a lot more, without giving an overly shiny or high contrast look to the painting!
Hope you enjoy this process video! And I really recommend doing a self portrait from a mirror reflection sometime, it’s a really fun challenge that creates super interesting results. If you do a similar exercise, be sure to share it over in the discord ~ I’d love to see it! ❤
Comments
Loish
thanks so much rose!
Rose
Happy belated Birthday!!🎉
Mildred
Even better!
Loish
i don't think that's lazy at all! every artist as a different moment at which they can say that something is done, i guess!
Loish
haha. i celebrate it very low key: by taking a day off and doing something nice with my partner. i get the feeling of not really feeling the need to celebrate it :)
Loish
thanks so much shanna!
Greg Schultz
Lovely inside and out (with a few exceptions inevitably). Look at the reactions your portrait got on Twitter. Still think it should become your logo--maybe it changes periodically. ..But that's just me. Congratulations.
Shanna
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY XXX
Mildred
Happy B-Day! Lol I don't celebrate my B-day though. Just want life done with!
Rob Callicotte
Happy Birthday (belated)!
Jehan Khonat
Clearly I'm a lazy painter because I look at it at 26 minutes and I'm like, 'it's done'. Haha 🌸 Happy Birthday Loish!
Loish
thanks so much :)
Toya Crain
Happy Birthday 🎂🎈
Thomas K
Happy Birthday Loish..🎁🎂🎉🎊🪅. Thank you for your time and effort in teaching us.
lorenzo
happy bday 😍
Lynn Zammit Russell
Happy birthday!!! Thank you for sharing your process with us :)
Wendigo
Happy Birthday and thanks for sharing your amazing art with us!
Jeff Matkovich
Happy birthday and best wishes 🎂🥳
Daniel buck
Happy birthday! Hope it’s a good one.
Cherice
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! 🥳 Thank you for the video!
Lauri Panopoulos
Happy birthday, Lois! Thank you for sharing this video….so clever that you lassoed the first stages into the BG.
JosGonzalezArt
Happy birthday! eat delicious things and have a great time!
Patricia Ally Doria
Happy Birthday Lois! 🎉🎂🎊🎁 hope you enjoy your day, really appreciate all of your tutorials, thank you for being such an inspiration! <3
Kat Craig
Happy Birthday Lois!! And thank you for the process video <3
Flávia Pratti
Happy birthday, Loish!! Hope you have a wonderful day! 🎉🎂
Michelle Bardon
Happy birthday Loish, hope you have a lovely day!! 🎊✨
Nahla
Happy birthday! 🎉🎂🎊🎁
Sabrina Schmeing
Happy Birthday! 🥳🎊
Tom
Happy birthday!! Thanks again for everything you do and for inspiring us to push further.
Elizabeth Mahmoud
Happy birthday!! 💖
chromic
Happy birthday! 🥳✨
Magda Firydus
Happy birthday!!! 🥰
Samantha
Happy Birthday! 🎉
Kataraqui
Happy birthday!!!
Agniv Kundu
Wish you a very happy birthday, Loish☺️🎶✨🎈
vessdraws
Happy birthday, Lois!!! ❤️🥂 Keep inspiring us all!
Rali M.
Happy Birthday, Lois!! <3 Wishing you tons of success, abundance, and heaps of creativity and good health, so you can keep sharing your amazing art with us and the rest of the world. Loved your self-portrait when you posted this a while back, so I'm excited to watch the process of it. Have an amazing day!! 🤗 🎉💐✨🎂☀️
Anabel Bang
Happy birthday 🎁🎉
rinzeart
Omg! Happy birthday Loish! Wishing you the luck, health and happiness ❤️
Ramón Martín
Happy birthday, Loish! 🥰 thank you for giving us this beautiful gift.
Chen-Hsun Chiu
Happy birthday!
Nataly Lepler
Happy birthday🥰
Andrew
Happy Birthday!
jonny mue
Happy Birthday Loish🥳🎉 thanks for keeping up the motivation for beeing creative
Jani Ferd.
Happy birthday Loish!! 💝
Melike Miyanyedi
Happy birthday my 👑 😍🤗
Christina
Happy birthday, Loish! 💖🌟🎂
Aga Maszota
Happy birthday!
İpek Yenigelen
Happy birthday day!! ❤️🎉⚡️🤩
Piotr Kostecki
Happy birthday 🥳🎉
