9/12 Wildlife
Animal Portraiture
Warm-ups Blind Line | 2 Minutes
Contour Line | 10 Minutes
Eyes
Animals do not have the same eyes. They come in millions of shapes and sizes based on purpose.
Composition
How are the eyes relating to the rest of the head. Are they in proportion?
Are far off the center vertical midline are they?
How far above or below from the horizontal midline?
Shape
What is the shape of the eyes? Almonds? Circles?
Do they protrude from the head? Are they sunken?
How many shapes can you find around the eye?
Value
Let’s look at the value of the eye in two ways: What is light/dark? What are the color values? Are the iris’ golden? Are the pupils blue? How dark? Where are the light areas hitting? Where are the reflections hitting? Make notes on both light and dark structures AND color values.
Line
Look at the dynamic parts of the eyes? Are there curves around the lids? Are there straight lines? Diagonals? Any verticals? What is the direction of the lashes?? Make this part expressive.
Painting Demo
Palette:
Raw Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Titanium White
Lamp Black
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Brushes:
Small Flat
Small Bright
Small Round
Extra Small Round
Back and forth flat brush with darks
Two stroke load in long round
Iris wet on wet with two colors
Reestablish any darks that have been removed
Block in darks
Block in base of eye color (raw sienna)
Lamp black to gray the mixture
Leave pupil - standard flat brush
Adding touch of darkness around the pupil
Warm Sienna around the exterior of the iris
Create a lost edge
Block in white area of the eye - using blue dirty gray blue (not white)
Add a lighter shape around the lower crescent
Specular lights on the glossier parts of the eye
Block in pupil - lamp black
Leave small linear shape (conic) open for reflections
Darken edge around Iris more
Go back and darken white area
Darken the Iris shape further
Add wet reflected highlights around the darker areas of the eye.
Make shape adjustments
Add Reflections
Blue/white adjustments
Light bounce around lower crescent
Final highlights
Warm-ups Blind Line | 2 Minutes
Contour Line | 10 Minutes
Eyes
Animals do not have the same eyes. They come in millions of shapes and sizes based on purpose.
Composition
How are the eyes relating to the rest of the head. Are they in proportion?
Are far off the center vertical midline are they?
How far above or below from the horizontal midline?
Shape
What is the shape of the eyes? Almonds? Circles?
Do they protrude from the head? Are they sunken?
How many shapes can you find around the eye?
Value
Let’s look at the value of the eye in two ways: What is light/dark? What are the color values? Are the iris’ golden? Are the pupils blue? How dark? Where are the light areas hitting? Where are the reflections hitting? Make notes on both light and dark structures AND color values.
Line
Look at the dynamic parts of the eyes? Are there curves around the lids? Are there straight lines? Diagonals? Any verticals? What is the direction of the lashes?? Make this part expressive.
Painting Demo
Palette:
Raw Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Titanium White
Lamp Black
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Brushes:
Small Flat
Small Bright
Small Round
Extra Small Round
Back and forth flat brush with darks
Two stroke load in long round
Iris wet on wet with two colors
Reestablish any darks that have been removed
Block in darks
Block in base of eye color (raw sienna)
Lamp black to gray the mixture
Leave pupil - standard flat brush
Adding touch of darkness around the pupil
Warm Sienna around the exterior of the iris
Create a lost edge
Block in white area of the eye - using blue dirty gray blue (not white)
Add a lighter shape around the lower crescent
Specular lights on the glossier parts of the eye
Block in pupil - lamp black
Leave small linear shape (conic) open for reflections
Darken edge around Iris more
Go back and darken white area
Darken the Iris shape further
Add wet reflected highlights around the darker areas of the eye.
Make shape adjustments
Add Reflections
Blue/white adjustments
Light bounce around lower crescent
Final highlights
