Aesthetics 2nd Faceup - Need some critique and advice

Some advice I can give for painting the eyebrows is to get nail art brushes rather then brushes from an art store. I find that nail art brushes just always have a finer tip and they are most often cheaper. And I would spend as much time as you can just making tiny thin lines on paper, until you feel confident that you know what consistency of paint will give you the thinnest lines without them being light and watery. For the line practice also trying doing strait up and down lines, slanted lines in both directions and straight across lines. These exercises should help your hands get used to the movements and build your confidence when working with the paint.

 

Hey there! I also have a lot of trouble getting thin lines and doing fine detail work. What I've found that really helps me is actually not using a brush at all for some of those details. If you sharpen the tip of a watercolor pencil to be nice and sharp, you can use that instead to get those little details. And I find them easier to clean away if there's any mistakes. The practice exercises mentioned above can also apply to the pencils. And of course, take your time and go slow if you need to! I try to do things like eyelashes and brow hairs rather early on in the process too so it doesn't affect the rest of the blushing and will go back in and carefully layer more lines as needed.

What sealant are you using? My biggest piece of advice for both detail work and general blushing would be to make sure to work in layers instead of trying to build everything up at once. Do some basic blushing, lightly spray to seal, and do another layer after it dries. Get the basic brow hairs and shape down, lightly spray, let dry, then build it up more if you need to.

Hopefully that helps a little bit and good luck!

 

First off I gotta say your overall face blushing looks really pretty ! the lips are also evry soft and cute~! As for any tips on your known problems-- this is gonna sound weird but if you're not very confident in doing the brows / shape / details, you could try outlining them first. Basically use something like a liquid latex or masking fluid (over the sealant of course.) and outline the shape of the brows with that to create something like a stencil ! and if you aren't able to get your hands on that- i would suggest first drawing in the very rough shape with pastels ! then slap on some sealant once you're happy with the overall shape and after that you can start practicing smaller strokes with your brush. This way you can wipe it if your hands got shaky and messed up the lines but still have a solid base in there !

 

I have an idea for the face if you just REALLY don't want to deal with wiping it right now--why not make the brows more solid, like people currently do with makeup? There are plenty of models, actresses, etc who have thick brows and play them up with brow powder and pencil--I'd say that these days that's the most popular thing. I think it'd look cool.
As far as advice, I'm wondering if you might look up some stretching exercises for arthritic hands before you start. I know that arthritis and muscles are very different animals, but I think it might just help as a warm up. I have really shaky hands from medication and that helps me, along with (ugh, the advice everyone with anything wrong with their body gets) drinking lots of water.