Highlights detail and form

Highlights have been added to the eyes and more detail and form have been painted in around them.

Each eye has a main highlight and a secondary highlight and the secondary highlight or you can call it reflected light has been made fainter so as not to over power the main highlights.

Here I am using a pastel pencil to draw in line and define certain areas that need to be brought out a little.

The badge has been painted in with some detail although not too much.

Here is the finished portrait and everything has been painted in with more definition now and although I am not in favour of using photo editing software to manipulate works of art, I thought I would show you how important a background is to a painting. Here I got rid of the background I painted in just to show you how important a coloured background is to a painting. With a coloured background her majesty's dress has contrast in both colour and tone whereas using a white background there is no contrast and her majesty looks isolated. I hope you have enjoyed this demonstration. Buy the Queen Elizabeth painting DVD here >>

 

 

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