Mask off the areas you have just painted and paint the shirt and phone cord. This done, we will begin on the eyes. Now, I am sure that you have been wondering if the subject was going to have normal eyes or just go gothic. Mask off the area around the eyes. Since the eyes have not been masked throughout the painting, the overspray has done some of the work for me. Since I do not want hard lines I will freehand the iris and shadow on the eyeball cast by the eyelid. The eyes, teeth and nails all are the color of the flesh - only much lighter. To make the highlight in the iris scrape carefully with an x-acto knife or use gesso tinted very slightly with yellow. Avoid using stark white. By tinting the gesso with yellow the white becomes warm and more natural in appearance. Remove the mask and check the color around the eyes. If needed, deepen the color of the shadows and eyelash lines to the desired depth. The hair needs to be done now to get everything to work together. Earlier, I mentioned that the edges of the hair should blend with the background and the hairline with the face. By doing it this way, the hair becomes a part of the head and face as opposed to look- ing like it is a bad hairpiece. The hairline should never be done as a hard line. Like a forest, the hair does not cover absolutely. The thinner the hair, the more you see - the thicker the the hair, the less. Using the Prisma-color pencils, draw the hair. Loose strands, indications of individual hairs to shape it and the transition from highlight to shadow are what you want to achieve. Creating the volume of hair and the ‘wispy’ strands are what will give the hair a realistic appearance. And don’t worry about crooked lines or un- even spacing of hairs--nothing in nature is perfect! It’s the flaws that help that ‘natural’ look work.
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