Gouache Portrait Practice - Conquering my Fear of Gouache
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I really really like that portrait, it turned out beautifully in my opinion.
your opinion is a good opinion to have, i confirm it to be a fact!
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I think the same :o!!!its so beautiful!!!
Myriam Tillson You always do. 💕
Your tutorials for gouache are soo well explained 😲
I feel the same way about acrylic paint as you do about gouache lol. I find gouache is easier to work with but sometimes I like the texture of acrylic better
Ray C omG exactly, gouache is vibrant and easy to use but acrylic gives such a good texture, although I'm always at odds with acrylic 😅
Blue and green make really easy go-to's for portraits especially because warmer skin tones are more yellow or pink and green and blue provide easy contrast.
And because green can get so warm it also works very well for cool skin tones. That's a big part of why they're a go-to for me, I think.
Blue and green compliment skin tones (reds and yellows) really nicely
I really want to try gouache now!! I've always been interested but now I really want to!! :D
Door it!! I was curious too and now its one of my favourite mediums!!
Love your honesty ❤️
Thanks very much!! ❤❤
"suspiciously well" hahaha I'm laughing so hard bc I'm the exact same way!
You are a watercolor QUEEN
This turned out great. I am a novice at Gouache and watercolors but I really like both. Gouache is my current favorite and I have a lot to learn. I enjoyed watching your video and look forward to seeing more of them. 🤗
I also feel at odds with gouache sometimes, so I totally get where you’re coming from! I haven’t really played with it too much since my last gouache video, but I’ve been thinking about attacking them like I used to do with oil paints. Sort of. Just like you said, laying down as much value in the beginning and then focusing on color. I used to do wipe outs for oil though, so I’m thinking a monochrome under painting would work, especially since that’s how I’ve been. Practicing gouache use in the first place.
Annnnyway, love the painting and those seeet daffodils. ❤️
oh my god the weird proportional thing I once spent an hour sketching out a large drawing only to stand up for a better view and see destruction
This happened to me so many times 😂
7 people gave this a thumbs down. Who are these people and what motivates them? A big thumbs up from me! It think the final result was very good, particularly in view of your admission that you are not entirely comfortable with the medium. I find that it helps to think of my paintings akin to the growth of a child. They start out cute and full of promise. Then they transform into a gangly, slightly ugly, awkward and troublesome tween/early teen. Then they start to blossom into a radiant young adult that despite their inherent beauty can only focus on their flaws. Then I walk away and come back a few days later and realise the fully formed adult that it is, still has flaws, but I'm ok with that.
I love how inspiring and relatable you are
I love your understanding of color!
Yay...I really want to tackle gouache again and this video was encouraging that things can get better
I really enjoyed watching your sketching process, it really does look like you're sculpting the sketch as you go and it turned out so beautiful. I'm also really in love with your style, it's so dreamy and unique! I'm looking forward to seeing more gouache paintings as I've started trying it out myself and I find your videos to be really helpful and inspirational. Thank you! ❤
This was such a fun one to watch from you! I LOVED seeing the confidence in execution as you lay down your strokes!
Thanks for showing the whole process and expressing your feelings & doubts during it ♥
I’m in love with your channel and art!!! This painting is absolutely stunning!!!
I really enjoyed your thoughts on this. I really have the whole drawing thing down to a science, but it is so hard to wrap my mind around the concept that painting and drawing are different. Painting is a whole other beast from drawing and I need to be patient and just tackle it like I would when I was practicing drawing.
Gorgeous piece! The green and purple go so well together x
This is so beautiful. I really like how it turned out and I loved how you blended it out. I really face so much trouble while blending because I mess up with consistency and the colours.
It looks great. Gouache and I broke up in college and are now trying to make another go at it💐😂
This is really beautiful.
Beautiful! She turned out great!
Omg THANK YOU. I can't wait to try your technique tomorrow
This is such an inspiring and motivating video. I always love to watch your painting process. And hearing you talk about your struggles and attitude towards them so eloquently and matter of factly is so so helpful. And I was so happy when you said you were happy with this painting! 😁
she turned out great! I have a love / hate relationship with gouache so this was inspiring to watch 😊
I love it!! Beautiful portrait 💕
looks beautiful
I like to watch your videos when i draw:) your voice is so soothing and your art motivates me to draw more loosely
thanks for the inspiration:)
Totally relate to the proportion warp! Recently I started to draw at an angle because laying it flat distorts the drawing and when you see it as you should it looks all weird
i've been using gouache more than acrylic lately and i'm starting to like gouache more. i'm doing a clothes and wrinkles study and i really started to get the hang of blending the shadows and how to lay values down. i'm still hesitant to start portraits but i'll get there
Wow! I'm following your art videos for a while now you've made progress!!!! So nice to see 🤗
I took notes as I watched this video. I appreciate you!
Beautiful !
Love this piece💛
Very inspiring !... gouache intimidates me
Gosh, i´m so mesmerized by this paintin! The colors fit so well together and develop such an intensive mood its incredible!
I really like the thought of doing an underpainting when painting with gouache, i´m a total beginner when it comes to gouache and it´s super intresting and inspiring to see how other people work with this medium. :)
I´ll defnitley try it out for my next one, maybe even with acrylia gouache :D
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Details work. Nicely explained.
I love your videos ♡ I also am trying to conqure my fear of gouache (I've started doing some studies of Sargent's gouache works). I just recently bought the Himi gouache set. Gouache is so different than any other medium I've used. I've mainly used dry mediums (like graphite and charcoal). I've never been a painter, but it's been fun experimenting :) and yes, I know what you mean by that weird proportional warping when you draw with the sketchbook mostly flat. I started drawing with my sketchbook on an easle or pointing straight up resting in my lap to try to combat that.
You did a fabulous job!
I like that you managed that slightly chunky, paint by number effect but also blended your colors.. a great mix of both techniques. I have a super difficult time with the chunky look. My paintings always come out smoothly blended and I want to Stop! I also love it that you seem to know when to stop.. I wish I did.
Some tips I can help you with the blending of gouache to make a pretty good face is to search for the makeup illustration thingies they make, you know the guides where to highlight, contour, bronze, and blush? That way you know where the natural high points, where you put lighter paints and contours of the face where you put darker paints. (Though this works only on a portrait that faces you and not in angles) This really helped me to point out where to put the gouache on. (Still a beginner though)
I have a love-hate relationship with gouache 😂😂😂 so I understand how you feel about this medium.
Anyway this painting looks awesome! I love how this turned out 😊
I love this! if your looking for something to rest your pieces on at an angle. michaels has these suppper cheap table top easle's it really helps with the proportion angle problem, without straining your hand holding the piece up!
Man, gouache is hard. Having come from watercolor, and almost 10 years ago having tried oils and that's it for my painting experience, just getting used to the opaqueness is a lot.
I finally found a bit of a sweet spot, when I started using them like oils and blocking in large color, then watering them down like watercolor to blend like you did.
It's amazing what people are able to achieve with it. I really like this one, and you definitely got that painterly style. I'm glad that you're starting to feel more comfortable...
I'm not yet, but I have hopes I'll get there. Thanks for sharing.
Love this...& Yes gouache is tricky. Keep going and giving us tips...:)
I think it turned out really well! i really struggle with gouache aswel :)
That’s beautifully done. And i want also to used or practice aqouache too. ☺️💕👍🏻
Oh wow you did an amazing job on this piece! Your daughter is just the cutest thing ♥ I personally love gouache, but for some reason it is scaring me at the moment. That aside gouache is my favourite medium! I have the habit of blending it a lot. It turns out very soft and smooth. I would love to try and be better at getting the more "rough" painterly feel to it sometimes. I do like when my entire painting is soft because there are often a bunch of details and I think if everything was "rough" it would be too busy? Thank you for sharing another great video ♥
I get mini anxiety attacks every time I cover the lineart and transition into the "ugly, uncertain" phase :( The tip about blocking all the underpainting tones in first is really helpful, thank you. Everyone painting in gouache is super brave in my book :D Love the subtle skintones on her right cheekbone
You’re right this gauche painting was great I think it turned out great anyways
the only thing we have to fear is fear itself 😊
this is beautiful! You definitely conquered gouache in this vid. We can be too hard on ourselves as artists
Tip i always use distilled water to spray or drop in my pigments ,i enjoyed the demo tfs.
Omgg I really feel what you mean with being suspicious with paints. I just finished a peice a few hours ago in which I used gouache and acrylic. Now I really like gouache even tho I'm new to it, but I always feel suspicious with acrylics since they always seem to not go the way I want them to, so i guess you could say how you feel about gouache is how I feel about acrylics
This piece is so much better than the other one I watched you paint in gouache. My first couple of attempts using gouache were so terrible that I almost threw them away. But after watching your first attempts gave me some hope that it wasn’t the paint, it was my lack of understanding the medium. Still I have a kind of love-hate thing going on with it. It’s different than the other mediums I have painted with. Well, that was dumb, all paints are different and you have to learn what works and what doesn’t. Drawing and painting are my psychiatrist, no matter what mood I’m in it’s better when I start arting. LOL It’s difficult for me at times to draw and paint because I have to do a lot of it lying down bc I’m still healing from a shattered hip and I have Rheumatoid Arthritis which is trying to cripple my hands. So I’m trying to have hand surgery to get the joints replaced so that I can use them the way I used to use them. It makes proportion really tricky if you are lying down. But I won’t give up my link to sanity and happiness...which is painting! LOL Annie in Tenn
I laughed out loud when you said you did know that the paint was not malicious haha... been there done that ;) Keep on the good work, you are on your way, to become a great painter. This little portrait is really good. Thank you for sharing.
i hate the warping so i usually just bend down so close to the paper that i can almost touch it with my nose 😂 and thank u for the longer sketching process, this is exactly what ive been hoping for for a while now 💞✨ got a double sided red/blue pen just cuz of u the other day 😄 and... i also lov ur green backgrounds. thank u for this elaborate process, made me rlly want to get out the gouache n get going w/ it 😃😊
Love it 😊💕
I also draw the same way! i don't like sketching flat love your vids!
Beautiful!! Recently I have discovered 10 tubes of gouache and I’m really intimidated by it. I know it’s more opaque than watercolor but is that the only difference?
AHH I'm so glad that you included the sketching! i really enjoy watching you do this process! Also your colour choices for the skin are amazing, i would have never considered doing a green shadow on her face yet it looks so beautiful! Do you use a reference to help with the sketch and colour choices, or do you base it off previous experiences :)
Ack, I'm so sorry I didn't reply to this sooner. ;-; In this case, I did use a couple different references, yes! I think I had one for the pose, one with a face shape I really liked, and maybe something else that inspired the colors?
I also work with gouache, and I found Jeff Watts's approach to be very helpful. Grisaille painting before hand is another option. But your portrait turned out very nice so take my recommendations with a grain of salt.
Thanks for another pleasant video. Coincidentally I have tried gouache today first time since time of being teenager... Many years ago. I can't say that it was successful but for first time not so bad. I definitely will practice more. The colors are bold and confident, if you can say that about colors. So this medium differs from oil or watercolor and has its own attractive features.
Your portrait is very nice, especially eyes. I hope I will be able to do smth like that one day.
What liquid do you add to your gouache in order to activate them, is it just water or smth else?
Gouache feels more like acrylic to me but way easier to blend. Try not going in dark first, start with a light tone as an under painting then go in and build layers up. Your paper should be at least 140 - 300 lb water colour paper and tape it down, you should be pre soaking the paper in advance to avoid buckling.
Buteaful!!
Can you please show us how to paint acrilik?? I bought that 60 pack of arteza acrilik, and really don't know how to start.
Thank you.
Excuses me, can i ask what kind of paper is it?
Yours painting are really beautyful... I love it!
My english is not good...😂😂 so glad you can answer my question. Thank you very much
I love seeing people use gouache opaque like your painting, they always look so lovely... I hate it when I do it though. For some reason when I try to use gouache opaque I end up tossing it out because it doesn't look right. A lot of my paintings look like watercolor with small details in gouache.
Oh my goodness your old enough to have a daughter? I wonder if she’s as artistic as you are. Love the gouache videos they are so inspiring and relatable!
Yeah I sketch on an easel even though I work on paper because I kept getting that weird proportion thing
Can you use a gloss spray or acrylic liquid gloss when you are done and the work is very dry ?
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so expressssiveee!!! niceee
I have a fear of it as well 😂I used it once and it was not fun! It keep on reactivating and it got all muddy
What watercolor brush are you using for this portrait? I see you mainly start with a red one then go to an orange ish colored one
I always feel frustrated when i'm trying gouache. But i think seeing your improvement with this media is a good incentive.
Also is it ok to put gouache in a palette? Or does it cracks a lot. I really want a gouache palette that I can take to my boarding school
Looking at your work, I think my personal problem with gouache is the paper I'm using and the pressure I'm applying to my brush. 🤔🤔🤔 You have a really light hand, I see, and you layer carefully and the paper handles it without pilling. I tried it on mixed media paper, I'll do watercolour n see how I go. Maybe hot press 🤔
😍😍😍
For some reason, I have more fear of Gouache than Acrylics, which I recently got back into liking in my college class. I'm more of a watercolor painter, but for some reason, I can't get gouache wrapped around my head. Might need to start applying it more like Acrylics than watercolors
Yeah, the warping is a common illusion. It has to do with perspective and the way our brains see it. We think the lines are too close and almost subconsciously move them causing the top of our drawing to stretch. It's one reason why drafting tables can be angled up. 😄
What type of material & brands do you recommend when using Gouache?
- Paper
- Gouache paint
- Brushes
i did a HUGE watercolor painting and I ruined it because I did it over a couple weeks and did it flat. :( the glasses were so wonky. I wish I had thought to put it up at an angle!
Thats my favorite medium, i usually paint underpaint with acrylics, just blocking and then finish it with several layers of gouache and even glaze with it... give it coat or two of acrylic varnish and it end looking really cool imo...
What type of palette is that?
What palette is that?
I really need to conquer my gouache fears. Either I'm gonna start something, hate it and not finish. Or try to finish it, and not be able to get it where I like it and feel like I wasted my time. But I know I won't get anywhere if I don't practice.
Oh crap im really early lol Anyway i know you will never see this comment but I wanted to say that I really love your art and you keep me inspired all the time... thanks for sharing with us!
I totally see this comment. I SEE EVERYTHING. :D Thank you so much for your kind words. ♥♥
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Woo, look at those speedy fingers!
i feel you :´]
i litereally painted something yesterday and after getting half the painting done i realized the face was warped bc my chair is too short for my desk
and this is the FIRST thing she says in the video? is the universe mocking me??
I’ve been messing around with gouache lately but the ugly phase always turns me off from a painting, how do you push through the ugly phase? 😅
That sounds like a good topic for a video! I try to remind myself that it doesn't have to last forever, and I have to make every stroke have a purpose. I don't want to lay down color for no reason - that just makes the ugly phase last longer!
I still don't know what gouache is but this is beautiful
"suspiciously well"
me: *playing on my laptop and phone in my room*
me: hhahhhhhhh.... piece and quiet.... too quiet
me: *proceed to check on every member of my family without speaking to them*
Sweet baby 👼 (your daughter)
Oml I always pick blue or green for backgrounds too!! I have no idea why 😂 I don’t even like those colors that much
Maybe because they seem to compliment skin tones so well? Who knows!
This looks so much like lorde
Oh, I can see it!