How To Paint LADY IN RED ❤️ acrylic step by step painting tutorial

Okay, everybody so today we're gonna be working on Gesso primed. I just use white to acrylic gesso. I apply two coats. I let it dry This is a 16 by 20 canvas and I've got my number 50 filbert blending brush here Just to create the long sweeps for the background and I'm gonna get my brush a little bit wet to begin I'm gonna take titanium white and A little bit of black so easily simply we're just gonna go in an up-and-down motion like this The idea is to make sure that it's not all the same color and shade all the way across That's why I'm I'm not making and mixing the color on the palette. I'm taking a little scoop of each and Applying it Directly onto the canvas so that we get those natural light and shadow areas and different mid tones Now if you need to help spread your paint around a bit easier, you can pick up a little bit of water And you can use any size brush when that's bigger than this if you want a Flat square one would work really well Okay, it's all dried off now And I'm going to be using a number two round brush you get my brush just a little bit wet More black to create a darker gray tone First and then we'll highlight and shadow a little bit more as we progress along here Start her arm coming out You You get a little bit away here to steady my pinky on the canvas It's a lot easier With the light coming in from this side I'm going to come inside and pour the silhouette here with my black Twist down into her armpit area here And then her dress is going to come out and just flow and be very abstract like on me Taking some flowers and butterflies kind of goes along with the theme I've been working on lately I think that would also look pretty if we had some of her hair going down too Whatever doesn't look right here a little bit tricky and it is tricky to get hands Especially if you're not Really Used to painting hands and body parts What I like to do Is this? sort of camouflage Those things if they bug me in a painting if I'm not really confident and make Really abstract and then just add some pretty Flowers and stuff on the end. I'll take a little bit of it off Looking a little bit too long Now most of the dress is going to be covered up right, but you can have like a thin layer just for her the suggestion of her figure here I'm not too worried about how it looks. I just won't be the idea. That's something that her figures there Her legs are there, but we're going to be going over a lot of it, aren't we? So it doesn't really matter too much Slight little shadow You Lighten little highlights here and then just softly blend Let's do it to make little stars and butterflies With a round brush a little bit of water a little bit of white You Then the forehead I really think that it's really a delicate look, I like to tap every once in a while. I'm going to add a little bit of highlight in there. It's kind of just going to get lost and blended in with her dress that we'll start working on soon. I think it would be fun to use some red today and be bold. I've had some requests for a lady in red, so that's something I've been wanting to do for a while. Okay, so I think I'm going to start working on the dress now. I'm just going to be really loose and fashionistic. You guys can all do this, all fall in line. I'm going to choose blue. I think because I've got a big canvas here and I really want to have a lot of dress, I'm going to make this really flowy. I'm going to use my number 30 filter, but you can use any brush that you feel comfortable with using. I'm just going to take white, we're going to do white first, so we have this nice bright white base to work with before we come in with a red. That way it will really show up. I just want it to feel almost like it's just blurry. If we want to create any sort of impressionistic indication, suggestion that there's some ruffles there, we can do these almost like figure eights. A little bit more water, a little bit more paint. Just start to lightly go over, just filter over her body so we can still see her legs through there. I'm just going to start to create a light, subtle glow. Soft sun rays from the top right corner here, where our main source of light is coming from, and just keep this really, really elegant looking. I want to create a glow all around her body, so I've added it under her hair, over her hair, and just kind of on the ends of her hair as well. I want everything to kind of all work together, and so I want there to be this blurriness and where you can't really tell the separation from the end of her dress and her hair and all those pretty little stars and butterflies up there. Now I've got my little fan brush here, and I'm really wanting those bristles to kind of separate off into sections like that. That works well for me right now, and it's a really good tip for creating hair and painting hair and fur as well on animals. So I've just got a little bit of water in my brush to help the black paint flow out of it, and then I get all those little bits of separation that look more like pieces of her hair kind of flowing in the wind or the breeze. So just with black. Now I really want to add a little bit more depth on this left side, so I'm just coming in with a tiny bit of black, and I'll blend that out and just soften a bit. It's just going to be slightly darker, so you can leave this out if you want. You can make the background as light or dark as you want. It's completely up to you, and no matter what, it's going to look nice. So I'm going to have the main source of light, though, coming from one side, so I either choose, in this case, the way she's facing. I've chosen to add the light source on the far right side. I'm going to just sweep and blend and pull a little bit of that grey, a little bit of that black there, and it's just really watered-down black, so it looks more like a dark grey, just kind of in the ruffles of her dress. And now I want to create a soft, pretty spray of stars and sparkly-looking stars there around her dress, so I'm using my toothbrush that I like to use for creating snow and stars in my paintings. Water, white, and then just pulling and flicking those bristles back and aiming wherever I want those stars to go. To make some little details, just suggestions, remember keeping it loose and abstract and dreamy-like, I'm just using a little one-inch liner brush here, and I'm just going to push and tap where I want to have some larger-looking stars, and then create some soft petals, maybe for flowers, some little wings, and create the idea of some small little butterflies around. I'll do the same thing from each of her hands as well, and then just a little bit over on the left side of her dress and body. So again, taking a little bit of water with my white, I'm now going to just create all these little swirls and ruffles, a lot of sort of like creating figure eights, and traveling around with my brush, moving it around consistently while I'm making all those little figure eights. So that is a really quick and easy way to create layers of ruffles and ripples in a dress. I'm also going to create a little bit of highlights on some of her hair here on the end, just to add a little bit more. And on the end of her dress here, I thought I would kind of make it look like a big rose, where all of that material on the end of the dress is just swirling up and picking up from the wind, or just kind of reminds me of some of those flamenco dancers' dresses, the way they're all ruffly on the end, and when they come swirling up on the end, they kind of create a big rose like that, so I thought I would have fun and do that with this painting. And I'm going to create a few more layers here and there of all those ruffles, and then I'm going to really build up the depth by adding some highlights where those... It's going to look 3D, so you'll see in just a moment, and I'm going to switch brushes for that, and I'll just be highlighting some areas of where those ruffles come up, and leaving the rest just that dark grey, so we've already got the shadow there, and we don't need to fill in any areas to create shadow, because that's why it's so important to have a grey underpainting, because it really creates all of that quite easily, so you can skip all those steps. Now I'm just going to go back here and start adding some more little details, butterflies and stars, and then we'll move on to the next step. Okay, now I'm going to switch over to another brush. You can use a flat brush or a filbert brush for this, and I'm going to start this with my liner brush, but I'm going to switch over right now to a bigger brush, and this one is, I believe, a filbert. You can use a filbert or a flat for this. They're both going to work really well, and you want to line up where your ruffles come up and over, so the top arch, that arc there is where you know that you need to go up with highlights. Where it scoops down is where your shadow is going to be. So I'll pick a few spots just on the top layer of adding that white highlight, and you can keep it thin as well so that it looks like it's lacy and sort of see-through. All these layers of light and dark highlights and shadows are really going to pick up after we add the color, and once it dries especially, you'll see all that depth. So now on the bottom right side of her dress in the front, I want to create some more ruffles that are really tight together. I want it to look like there's lots going on, and then it's slightly blurry and abstract, so I'm just scumbling around with my filbert brush, some leftover paint in there, and then I'm going to load the tip of my brush up and just squiggle and scumble around there, creating all those little wiggles. And so we're not doing the figure eights there, just lots of little ripples and wiggles, and then I'm going to slightly pull and flick a little bit up on an angle, the angle that the dress is falling on there, just to create some more layers in there and a few little highlights. And then I'm going to go back and add highlights wherever I need them before we come in with a color, so I'll add a little bit more. Throughout this video, actually, I'll add a little bit more to those sunrays and those sunbeams on the far right side, and just really thin layers of white. Then later on, I'll be coming in with a few other colors, red, bright neon red for the dress, and I'm going to look for the list, the full list of colors and brushes below this video in the description. If you just click on the bottom of the video, it'll pop up there. So I'll be using neon red. I'll be using neon yellow warm. I'll also be using turquoise, bright aqua green, and ultramarine blue. You can also use cobalt blue, and those are the colors that I've chosen. But trust me, with this black and white, grayish, grayscale background, you can use any colors that you want for your dress, for the stars, for all of it, or you can leave it in black and white. And I think the black and white is quite pretty as well. Okay, so after adding a few more highlights and stars and little details, I'm coming in with a little bit more black to add some more depth and shadow and make this more of a more contrast overall with this silhouette. Once I do this, I'm going to make sure the whole painting is dried off. That way I don't chance, I don't want to take a chance on pulling any of this paint up and getting that mixed in with the color that I want to come over with now. So once I do this, I'll just pull a few more little hairs in here, finish this up. I'm going to completely dry it off. I just take a hair dryer to speed up the drying time. And then I'm going to come over with my bright neon red. And I'm not going to have the same amount of red or paint all over evenly on the dress. Sometimes it's going to be a little bit thinned out with water, and sometimes I'm going to use full strength. So I've got a large flat brush, but you could use a filbert brush for the coverage as well. And of course, I know not every one of you watching right now is going to have the neon paints that I'm using. You guys don't have to have neon paints for this. It'll look beautiful no matter what. You can use any red that you have or any color for that matter that you want or that you have. The idea is to choose colors that speak to you. Like I said at the beginning of this video, I've had a few requests for a lady in a red dress, and I happen to really love red. I haven't used a lot of red in any one of my paintings lately. So that kind of just sealed the deal for me, and that's why I chose this red. But there's many reds. If you don't have neon red, you could use crimson red, scarlet red, cadmium red. Yeah, there's a lot of different ones you could use, so have fun. And you guys, I really am excited to see your versions. I find myself every day scrolling through on our Facebook group to see what new beautiful paintings you guys have created. You guys are blowing me away with all of your talent, so keep up the good work. And like I said, I'm really looking forward to seeing your versions of this. And if you guys are interested in more figures or figurative tutorials, I've got a few. I've started to do more this year. Really in the last few months, I've got a lot of ballerina-type things, fairies, pretty tutus and dresses. So have a look through. Depending on when you're watching this, I may have a playlist. So check out my playlist to see if I've created one. I think I'm going to do that today anyways. I've got enough now that I can make a playlist out of them. So I'm going to continue along here, just adding my red, kind of going around with it, getting a feel for how much I want to cover, how thick and bold I want my red to be, or if I want it to be just a really thin layer like this. It tends to look a little bit more on the pink side with all the white lines and ruffles and designs underneath. So I really want to have that punch of bold, bold red. So I'm going to choose a few areas and then the rest I'll leave a little bit more translucent, transparent looking. And you'll see how pretty this painting comes together one color at a time as I add them. And of course, it looks pretty even just like this. You could leave your painting like this, but I wanted to. I love color. I just personally really, really love color. And I wanted to add some more kind of all around, but also have a nice balance and keep some black and white. So let me know what you guys think in the comments below. As this painting progresses, your thoughts, any suggestions or ideas for future, future tutorials. I do take requests. The top of my list are all on Patreon. So I've always got a long list going up. Requests over there. And I get to request first, of course, the foremost on my Patreon. But if you guys have any special requests, you can comment below. And of course, I appreciate it if you want to join Patreon for as little as five dollars a month. It gets you early access to 95 percent of my videos, extra content, monthly giveaways. And you'll be really helping my channel greatly. It helps me be able to afford to do this full time. And it's what I really love to do. So I'll leave links below for the Facebook group and that as well. So you can see how using a flat brush is really helpful for getting around those edges. But like I said earlier, a filbert brush is very easy to use, too, because it's very curvy, the female body. So you've got that round end to the filbert. So whether you want more of an abstract edgy look or more flowy type of abstract look, either one of those brushes will do that for you. I'm going to come in with my next color now, and I'm using neon yellow warm. So if you don't have a neon yellow warm, just use any warm yellow that you have. This is just really, really pretty and just kind of warms up all those pretty little stars up there. I just did a very, very, very thin layer. So it's, again, just a suggestion of color. And here I'm just scumbling off a little bit more because I don't want it to dry. It will dry a little bit darker, and I kind of want it to be more of a soft pastel tone once it dries. OK, so now I've got my ultramarine blue. Like I said, you could use cobalt blue as well. They're very similar. And I'm going to do a thin coat starting from the top left, slightly bringing it over part of the red. And what that's going to do is create purple more on the violet side, which is really pretty. And some areas here I'm going to use a little bit more blue. I'm going to travel around with it on this part of the dress, going over, seeing what that looks like. I'm just experimenting right now. I know that I can take this off. It's a thin, thin layer. And it's still pretty wet right now at this point. So if I do this quickly, I can decide and see what it looks like and decide if I like that or not. So I may take a little bit of it off. I may even add a little bit more. But I think I want to keep the dress mainly red. So I'll probably tone that down a little bit and just keep the colors, all the other colors, around the edge of the canvas. And I'm going to be adding a little bit more red here to the dress now. I want it to pop out a little bit more, I should say, more colorful and saturated. Now the next color I'm going to be using after I add this layer of red is turquoise. So I've got a clean brush now. I'm going to take turquoise with a little bit of white, and I'm going to start applying it down on the bottom right. And then I'm going to take a little bit of my blue, and I'm going to add that down here too. So I'll alternate. So sometimes I'm going to use just a little bit of that mint color that I made for the turquoise and white, and then sometimes I'm going to add a little bit of that blue to it, which makes a really beautiful tone. And I kind of want all the colors to flow into one another so you don't see where they start or stop. It just all flows together kind of like a rainbow. And I'll add a little bit of white to the blue and kind of just work my way up to the top left again, swirling and just having fun with loose brush strokes. And then the next color I'm going to make after this is I'm going to take the rest of my red, and I'm going to take my blue, and I'm just going to pull them in together. But you'll see that in just a moment, but it creates the most beautiful purple. It's almost like a dioxazine purple, but it's very, very violet-y. So here I've just got the lightest minty tone, so more white and just a tiny bit of that turquoise in there. I'm going to tone those sun rays a little bit. It took me a little bit. I had a bit too much water in my brush here, so I wasn't really happy, and I decided to take a dry, soft mop brush here. This is one of my brand-new brushes. I love it. It's so soft, and it just blended that out perfectly. And I'm just going to take a little bit of that mint color and brush that over the top there as well. So back to my round brush. I'm going to do some more turquoise and minty accents here, little dots and dabs, all those little stars and little butterflies, flowers, whatever you want to add to the bottom of your dress. It's a nice mixture, a nice combination of all those things, and that's kind of my theme lately. In my last three or four paintings, I've been adding that to my ballerina tutu dresses just for a really light and delicate fantasy feel to my paintings. It's really fun, and it's nice for all ages too. So I'm going to start to swirl in and figurate in some blue, turquoise, and white now before I come in with my purple. So I'll work my way up here. And these colors all look really pretty together too. Of course, red and green are complementary, and purple and green are complementary too, and everything kind of flows together like a rainbow, so you really can't go wrong. I'm going to add a few little stars and dabs here as well, and I'm going to soften. You can go over everything as much as you want, so don't be afraid to try this. Don't be afraid to think you're scared to go over your dress and you're going to wreck it. No, it's pretty fail-proof here because whatever you don't like, you can take off right away, and if you can't take it off and it's set in there and it's dry, you can always go over. Acrylic is so forgiving. So I'm now just taking a bit of white and just pulling both the remainder of the red and that blue together, making a really gorgeous, like, just look at this. I love this purple. It's so smoky-looking. It's just gorgeous. I think it looks so pretty and complementary. So I'm going to add that towards the top here, wiggle around with my brush. I'll blend it out slightly, and then I'll just add a few more details. So I'm just going to add a little bit more white in here, do some little squiggles and wiggles with my brush. Boy, this painting has been so much fun. I think you guys are really going to enjoy this, especially if you're a painter like me that I don't really like those tight, tight photographic-looking paintings, although I admire them and I have so much respect for those artists and their work. It's not my style. I feel a lot more free with my brush when I can have fun and be loose. And so if you're an artist like that, and especially if you're a beginner, you're really going to enjoy this one today. So as I finish up adding the last details here, which are a little bit more red, I'm going to add a little touch of pink with that red and white, just a touch of it on the top. Right, right about here, a little squiggle and then blend it out with my finger. I'll finish up this painting and I want to say thanks so much for joining me today. Thank you for all your support on my channel and happy painting. I'll see you all soon in my next video. Bye, everybody.