Watercolor portrait painting with only 3 colors

I'm going to show you how to paint watercolor portrait of this girl, and I'm going to use the medium cold press watercolor paper 9 by 12. Just pay attention to the bending the curve a little bit yellow with red. The whole face look like a circle. I'm going to put the neck over here, and the top of the head which is the forehead. It's going to be here, and then I come to the neck over here this side, and take a look on this side, and look at the shoulder. The shoulder and the left side and the right side is very much a whole curve line over. Now we're just about finished, and having the bending curve, because for a portrait like this, it's very very important to pay attention at the movement. This is a very important, the first step. Three parts, the eyebrows, the bottom of nose, and then the chin, and the nose bottom over here have a little bit more. So I'm going to put that right here, the eyebrow over here. In our Learning Center, there's a big library is the portrait drawing. If you're interested in portrait, just go over there to find, start from the portrait basics library. We don't have to draw all the detail before we start. Let's start the painting. Let's set a little color to the background first, right? So we're going to do like just a little red, yellow, and blue. Okay, if you have not get used to only the three color thinking, and you should try it. Okay, here you go. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to just go through the way here. Now we're going to take a look at what color is the skin tone. The skin tone is very easy. Actually, if you keep thinking about yellow, red, and blue, and that color skin tone is very close to light red-orange color. Let's take a look at right in here. Okay, let's not touch the top. And coming over here, now at this point, you just need to focus on the shadow side. Okay, now I'm going to also use the corner of this brush. I'm going to set that shadow side of the eye. You see that triangle over there. Now we're going to do the second round. The second round, I'm going to make it a lot darker. I'm going to go to the yellow and red. So make it look like orange first. Okay, and a little bit more yellow. And I'm going to take a little bit blue. That's how we get the brown color. A little bit blue. If there's not enough red, it will look green. So I'm going to get a little bit red. Now it become a little bit brown. Okay, that's good. Now we're going to start right over here. Let's see. Look at over here. We're going to come back to soften the edge. But don't worry. Don't panic. It's just make a decision. One decision at a time. I'm going to get a little bit tiny more blue. And you see that? That's a little bit more cooler. A little bit more blue color. Okay, here you go. Like that. And the yellow. A little bit more orange. Oh, that's just too much. So I'm going to clean the brush a little bit. I'm going to mix the color on this side. They are all mixed with the three colors. Down over here. Have a little bit more red. You see that? In your mind, it's just about three things. Three colors. Red, yellow, and blue. Okay, the brown color is just a little bit blue into the orange. So get the yellow and red. Right? A little bit tiny blue. And that's it. It's so simple. The way you think. And now I'm going to put a little bit light brown color over here. Okay, that's good. Take a look at the color of the eyebrow. Okay, a little bit. Start from the eyebrow. Right over here. There you go. The lower eyelid over here. I have a little shadow coming over. Drag that over. Coming up. Okay, that's good. That right here. That right there. That's good. This is take a little bit white. Just in here. That's good. A little bit more solid. Like that. I only use gouache white when I really need it. Right over here. See that? There's the light shape. Right there. That's the light shape. And uh-huh. If you still have the patience. Okay, I'm gonna have a little bit yellow color into this. Make it feel like gold. Okay, that's good. I'm gonna have a little bit red. Mix into here. Make a little bit darker. I'm gonna make a little bit more clear under here. There you go. Yeah, that's good. And okay. And then on this side. And that's good. And actually what I want to do. I'm gonna light up a little bit over here. It's showing this part of the earring. Okay, that's good. Like that. And oh, I have one little thing about the mouth over here. The shape get a little bit smaller and smaller, right? You see that? That right over here. And right under the lower eyelid. Also use this color. Coming over a little bit more. See that? Also here, have another shape. A little bit light shape. You see? Start from the big basic form of the face. And gradually, get a little bit more and more and more smaller. And don't be afraid of making changes. Okay, over here. The shape a little bit lower. Like that. Coming over here. That lower eyelid. A lot better. Okay. And one more thing. Yeah, I think I can make this a little bit softer. There you go. Make that a little bit softer. So when I was younger, I always believed that. I think most people believed that in the world. That watercolor is very limited. You cannot do much about it. You do one or two strokes, and that's all you can do. Right? There's still lots of people say that. But in fact, watercolor is actually very simple and easy. And you can do as much as your mind can allow you. Okay, I'm going to have this a little bit lighter here too. Okay. And I can have a little bit brighter. But have a little bit yellow. A little bit tiny red. Okay, like that. I'm going to have that a little bit orange color. Orange color always make it feel brighter. More translucent. That's good. There you go. Like this. Softer. Okay, that's good. And the bottom over here, a little bit tiny red. A little tiny red right here. See that? Right here. That's good. A little bit red over here too. Okay, now getting a little bit dangerous because the tiny brush always make it feel very textured. Okay, like this. I'm going to have this shape a little bit lower. Tiny more. That's good. Like that. And over here, if you light up a little bit over there, it make it even better. You see this? This shape's good, but I'm going to also have a little bit shape over here. Very, very tiny, tiny lighter. Okay, be very careful. Okay, that's good. That. A little bit. Like that. A lot better. That's good. And here, a little bit lighter. Over there. So painting is not just, you know, add, add, add, add, add. It also can tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Okay, coming in a bit more. That shape coming in a bit more. Perfect. Okay, good. A little bit more. Okay, that's good. Uh-huh. Tiny more red here. And okay, right here. I'm going to have even a little bit darker. That's good. A little bit darker. Right here. That's good. All right. I'm going to connect that over. Okay, perfect. Tiny more. Right here. That's good. I'm going to say this painting finish.