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October 2024 Sketchbox: Portrait Practice With Ink
Enhance your portraiture skills and explore painting with ink! In this experience, Hayley shows you how to use Smart Trace technology to recreate a portrait photo through a lens focusing on shadows and shapes rather than features. Let the Tones layer guide you in tracing the portrait into simplified values, then reference it as you bring it to life with the water-based black ink from the October 2024 Sketchbox.
Takeaways
- Learn to simplify facial features into basic shapes and shadows.
- Gain confidence in using water-based ink for portrait painting.
- Explore creative techniques with ink to enhance your artistic style.
Key Moments
- 00:00:00 - Introduction to the experience and materials.
- 00:01:18 - Using smart trace to outline the portrait.
- 00:02:54 - Beginning the painting with lighter ink shades.
- 00:10:02 - Adding darker tones and details.
- 00:24:00 - Final touches with bamboo tool for texture.
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