Amazing Portraits

So, you’ve journeyed into the skill of portrait from photo techniques and wish to learn to paint people. The artist which comes here truly is starting your artwork experience and deserves lots of praise. Years back, in age Renoir, great portrait artists were by themselves so far as learning portrait from photo techniques. Today’s artists are capable of use photos and manipulate individuals photos, making a portrait from photos simpler than ever before! The following are a few portraits from photo techniques. Begin using these techniques with any medium and lastly learn to paint people.

Prepare and Gather Your Reference Photos

You’ll need three photos or pictures. The very first is a black and white-colored copy from the exact pose you’ll be painting. This copy should be the precise size of the finished portrait too. The following photo you’ll need is any size one copy. The final is a color one in which you have manipulated the colors. Looking for a photo to oil painting? Visit our website today!

1. Black and White-colored Photo

Enlarge a black and white-colored photo from the portrait that you’ll be painting on your pc. Print a duplicate within the preferred size you would like your portrait to become. This copy should at the minimum be an 8 x 10, the bigger, the greater. The reason behind black and white-colored is essentially so you conserve color ink. You’ll use this copy to check measurements. You may even make use of this copy to find out complexion values. This is your working copy and will also be discarded when finished. Plain white-colored printer documents best.

2. Colored Photo

Next, you’ll need exactly the same pose however the photo needs to become colored. It does not appear size it’s, but realize that the bigger the greater. This colored copy will be employed to match skin colors and also to identify shadows and highlighted areas. After I paint individuals portraits, I frequently place this colored copyright into an obvious food storage bag or look out of sheet protector to ensure that I do not get paint onto it. This colored copy can be used for checking complexion colors as well as for referencing lights and darks during your work. For the best portrait painting visit us today!

3. Colored Manipulated Photo

The 3rd picture I personally use within my studio is really a colored one which I’ve enhanced or manipulated the colors. The colors you utilize or change it out to actually does not matter. The concept would be to alter the colors so the alterations in skin tone tend to be more noticeable and apparent within the photo. By doing this there’s no speculation involved when you’re attempting to see in which a shadow or highlight starts or ends.

These are merely a couple of portraits from photo techniques exceptional portrait artists use to produce realistic works of art today. So take time to find and print your working, black and white-colored, your colored reference, as well as your colored manipulated photos for you, start the next portrait from photo experience.

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Dinner at New Dragon Gate Seafood Restaurant

new dragon gate restaurant

I just had dinner at New Dragon Gate Seafood Restaurant with my business partner and spouse, inside Red Rock Hotel, formerly known as Mandarin Hotel along Macalister Road. It is located conveniently near our condo and we were out for dinner at around 9:00pm where most of the eateries are closing.

lights of fortune

This lights of fortune with crystal ball on top caught my attention and I took the opportunity to snap it for posterity. It has the shape of Chinese money of gold nugget.

myself

That’s me seated on a carved wooden chair at the lobby of Red Rock Hotel just before dinner on the first floor.

ambience

This is the ambience with lilac coloured covered chairs with white ribbons and red lanterns suspended on the ceiling.

serviette

This is the printout or design of the restaurant serviette with address, logo, etc.

tofu

This was the first dish of black and yellow Japanese tofu, topped with fried mushrooms, spring onions and red chilies. It was quite delicious, with soft texture that is ubiquitous of tofu.

scallops with lotus root

Here the second dish was served consisting of scallops with sliced lotus root, green peas, asparagus and carrots.

cod fish with black Japanese sauce

This was the third and final serving of 2 piecces of cod fish with black Japanese sauce, garnished with honeydew melon scoops, radish flower and green salad on the side.

dishes

These are some of the appetisers like peanuts while waiting for the main dish to arrive which was tofu with chilies, pu-er tea, on an embroidered table cloth.

fruits

Here are free fruits on the house consisting of cut watermelon, honeydew and papaya.

leaflet of set meals

This green leaflet put on the table for the taking show the various set meal combinations with respective prices. Overall, the food was good with plenty of privacy – just the 2 of us were dining in an entire empty restaurant that can cater to a wedding banquet. I shall be going down south tomorrow morning to Kuala Lumpur and by Friday, will be down south further and come back to KL to attend the Mooncake Festival sponsorship dinner table of 10 that was paid for by our company in a hotel.

Hence, this blog may or may not be updated for another week as I shall be on the go all the time traveling for work.