Simple watercolour technique

The bottom of the nose has a dark line underneath it and this helps to give the nose a more three dimensional shape, notice the cool blue under the nose. The dark line going across the middle of the top and lower lip goes in and it is very important to observe both its curvature and its tone of the mouth area.
 

The lower jaw is strengthened with a dark shadow colour has his is jacket.

Here I could have left white paper for highlights in the eyes but they didn't show that much in the photo so I didn't bother but if you ever forget to leave white paper for highlights you can always scrape the highlights out with a knife.

The finished sketch which took around 30 minutes to do and as I said earlier the photo wasn't a really good one to work from and as you can see here that he has only one collar which looks a little odd but I think it is always better to paint what you see.

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