Realistic painting ideas

It's hard to draw the entire portrait at once. To practice, you can start drawing facial features separately to gain an understanding of how light shapes the form. Draw the eye, nose, lips, ear separately many times.

Learn how to create more realistic paintings with these (actionable) realism painting tips, that you can begin applying to your own paintings right away!

How to paint realism. An introduction to the key factors for realistic painting, including precision in drawing from observation, brightness values, contrast, edges, transitions, color temperature, colors and saturation.

Clouds can add a nice touch to your landscape drawings, but making them look realistic can be fairly elusive. So how do you sketch clouds and make them look realistic? We will discuss eight things …

At first glance, these beautiful still life images seem like photographs. In reality, they are actually hyperrealistic paintings by artist Jason de Graaf.

Discover the key role color temperature plays in painting skin tones that have a realistic 'life' to them. Along with how to start mixing skin tone colors!

You know why art is so fascinating? We think it is due to the fact that though art borrows from reality, which is vast, it also relies on imagination, which