Although I like the blending and contouring in “Contentious,” this guy’s chest remains undefined because the model in the picture was wearing a shirt. I have to develop a technique for painting an attractive man’s chest.
I realized after the fact that his head was too small. In the picture I used, the guy wore a hat, which I didn’t want, but I inadvertently made his head too small in the process. Her face was challenging to paint because it was too small for details and I used too much water for the given space. Once I buy the inexpensive watercolor paper, no faces will be this small.
Her face was almost too small, but I made sure to use a damp brush rather than a wet brush for her face. I’d also traced her hand too large, but I slimmed it down to a more realistic size while painting. Yet, I like her blending and I can do something better with the tub water next time.
I love that this guy actually looks Asian. Too bad I messed up his pecks and the contouring on his lower abs look more like bruises.
The combination of the smallness of the tracing and fact I tried to create another brother without having an actual brown watercolor crayon, propelled me to buy the missing colors. I’ve grown so tired of trying to blend the right combinations of blues and orange, or yellow and purples to make brown. It’s going to be a sheer relief to paint people of color in a more straight forward way.