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Female practice face up

Apr 19, 2023

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    2. ooooh, berries or sakura branch?

      Keep it up. Practice makes improvements :)
       
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    3. aww thank you Sakura branch meow :D
       
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    4. I'm ot sure what medium you are using for the heavier lines on both and lips on the second one? If it's acrylic paint, I think you'd find a better result thinning it out with some water. That way you can layer it on in washes and have more control.
       
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    5. omg thank you I need that advice and critique cause I gonna reduce it honestly I using liquidtex fluid aid on the acrylic paint will try water instead so the acrylic paint doesn’t show also will buy a more pigmented chalk pastel I saw in Amazon is called Sargent art pastel is rich pigmented.
       
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    6. The linework on the eye brows and lashes looks a lot better now! Whatever you are doing with that I think you are on the right track.
      The blushing also looks much cleaner and more controlled.

      But there is something going on with your solid colur blocks. The lips, the eye lid crease and the eye liner does seem a bit wobbly. It's hard to know what is going wrong, but the black lips especcially does give me the vibe of being done with a too big or improperly shaped brush. There is no absolute rule about what brush you should use as that is in part personal preference, but looking at the corners of the lower lip it looks like the brush is not thin enough to get the paint in there. There is also something going on with the edges of the lips, it looks as if you don't have full control over where the paint goes and this could also be because of a too big brush.

      For the lips, you could try painting the outlines first using a similar method to what you used for the thinner lines and then switching to a slitghtly bigger or rounder brush to block in the rest. That way you minimize the risk of messing up the edges with the bigger brush.
      The rest is probably down to a combination of paint consitency, pigmentation and lack of confident brush work. If you hesitate mid stroke you get exactly the kind of uneven thickness to the lines as you can see on both the eye lids and the eyeliner. A quick, confident motion is the best. Failing that, a slow but even and focused movement will work as well. Make sure to hold the head in such a way that you can execute the movement smoothly.

      Keep at it, you will improve with every try. Best of luck!
       
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    7. Thank you for the heads up yea my hand does get bit wobbly. Also I need to try to use the liquitex flow aid to dilute the acrylic paint I getting the hang with the pastel and pencil so far and that’s my strongest point so far. Also thank you for liking the first elf head face up I bought pen erasers works better helps me clean the mistakes