Colorful face drawing

I started this portrait as a class demonstration, in order to let the students understand the color in a colouered light source condition. As for this portrait, it made more complex and fun with it's light source from the bottom and the texture on the mordel. To simplify the texture contents based on understanding the inner structure is one of the importance in paint/draw a portrait. Photo Ref: Yulia Shur

In a comment on one of my recent posts, someone used the phrase “art for profit” in an attempt to be negative. But rather than an insult, that’s a dream! I feel so incredibly lucky that my “work” is something I absolutely love—painting the fascinating, endless variety of human faces. And how great is it that something I love to create happens to be something that others value, too. As long as I can continue to elicit reactions like the one to this portrait—“omg, I freaking LOVE it!”—I’m…

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This idea came to my mind when I was sitting at a very boring lecture. I got inspired by 4 text highlighters with crazy colors :)