Drawing a Painting

Drawing a painting the finishing stages

Drawing a painting is quite a difficult task because we have to translate colour into tone. Here we have darkened

everything even further corresponding with the original painting and half closing your eyes will help seeing these tones, both light, middle and dark tones. Keen observation is the key to any drawing or painting and learning to see tones and colours accurately.

Completing the entire portrait now and making sure that the structure of the portrait is correct and finishing the shading in the background and foreground observing what's happening in these areas.

Here we bring the right arm out more by drawing in the creases and folds and shading in these parts, I have also defined the whole portrait more by keeping everything going at the same pace.

Here we have the finished portrait of the Mona Lisa and everything has been more defined and finished to a more detailed portrait. The foreground has been made darker and if you look in the previous example the overhaul tone is like a middle to dark tone, in this example we have darkened the foreground so that it makes the hands stand out more. Can you see that the bottom half of the portrait is darker than the top half, hence we get a balance of light and dark, the light tone in the top half brings us to her face. We hope you have enjoyed this Mona Lisa tutorial.

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