tailieunhanh - Paul McCartney portrait

Step 1 The outline of the photo (taken from the guide to Liverpool's museums!) is transferred to the board in pencil. You can see that parts of the face don't look quite right here. Sometimes this is an optical illusion created by the lack of tone, and once you get some shadows down it starts to look right. I had several problems with this painting, which will be addressed step by step. | Paul McCartney portrait Step 1 The outline of the photo taken from the guide to Liverpool s museums is transferred to the board in pencil. You can see that parts of the face don t look quite right here. Sometimes this is an optical illusion created by the lack of tone and once you get some shadows down it starts to look right. I had several problems with this painting which will be addressed step by step. Step 2 Being a grayscale painting I didn t have to worry about colour so I just slapped on the various shades of gray with only the slightest suggestion of blending around the jawline chin and neck. At this point I noticed the eye was sloping down too much and the chin didn t look right due to lack of shading. Step 3 I painted over the eye and tried again now it looks right. The chin still looks funny but I can t quite put my finger on the .