如何畫水——逼真的海灘波浪繪畫教程

Hey guys, welcome back. In today's video, I'm going to show you how I painted the second part of this landscape painting here, the part with the sea. So the first thing we're going to do is we repair the waterline. As you can see, it's not that correct at the moment. Taking a piece of tape and remixing the color. And then of course we soften it down a little bit and do some more repair to it. The line should not appear to be very straight, very cut out, very hard edgy. It needs to be a bit softer. Then we mix the palette for the second layer and start to build up the waves. The secret here is that you need to follow the perspective line, more or less. You need to build up the waves according to the line they should appear on the horizon line, on the surface, more or less. And when you do that wrong, the waves seem to appear very not rolling towards the beach. They seem to be rolling in more or less any kind of direction. And therefore you need to watch that the line you put them in is correct. Of course you can follow your reference material. But keep that in mind when it comes to building up those wave lines, more or less. Not that difficult, I think, applying the color and again working with the dry brush technique. I'm building up the center wave, more or less. It's a small wave that we have here. Basically it's the main focus on the water part. And for that I'm using this brownish, greenish color here. For the top of the wave that breaks here. And also I'm tying around with the thickness of this color, as you can see. And with this easy trick you can basically very easy build up those color differentiations that you need. When it comes to painting a wave. Adding some reflections in this part here. And here you see that I'm more or less a bit off from the horizon line. And started to correct a little bit. And also trying to fine blend, dry blend basically the line of the wave here. Into the already dry underpainting. Same goes for this part here. Basically trying to get in the softness that you need when you want to paint the distance. On a painting in general. And this way it's much more time saving manner than when you would try to build up this whole thing in one sitting. Basically the black color and the color of the waves as well. This is really way easier this way. And now I'm building up the waves on the horizon line. And make sure that these waves appear very flat. And this helps to communicate this distance that we have here. Would you do the waves, the white part of the wave very thick. It would look pretty off I would say. The relationship would not be correct. And with this blueish grayish color here I build up basically now the water part on the beach. And this is the most trickiest part of this painting I would say. It's not the easiest part definitely. Because you have to make sure that you use a layer of color that is not too thick. So that you get still the underpainting shining through in a lot of places. Like here for example. And here now I'm connecting the right part with the already finished left part. And you see that I did it a bit wrong. I did the horizon line on this wave here a bit not very straight. And this can be corrected by just following it. And then you end up with a wave that makes a curve more or less. And this is okay. I did not want to repaint it again. But you see it's not an easy thing to get in the perspective right on such a big painting. Even I have did it wrong on this painting here as you can see. So you don't have to feel ashamed when you don't get it right on your first try when it comes to painting a bigger wave painting. I'm adding now details. Finer ones. And also now I'm basically building up here now the foam parts on the front of the very small waves that we have here. Basically this bluish whitish color here is more or less waves that are very thin. And they basically run out or flow back into the sea. And to communicate this we need those foam parts in the front of the waves. And here you see that I'm getting a bit thinner with this glazing technique. And yeah. And let basically shine through more of the underpainting. So that we have a bit of a thinner wave. With less reflections from the sky that we have here. And you see the white water part here is. It appears to be white but it's still not a very whitish color. I saved basically the whitest colors for the highlights on the white water on the waves themselves. And on the white water on the front part of the foam part here. Adding here lots of details. And then filling up the gap with this pretty whitish color to communicate the foam that we have on the front part. Using very small brushes. Now here a dagger brush. A bit of a edit detail stage here. And it took me quite a while to build up those fine details. Then I grab a fresh brush and start to soften the whole thing down even more. And now I'm building up the front part. And this part here is also very important that you give the sole foam part in the front some volume. And this is done by adding some lighter color to the edges where the sun basically reflects. And you also need to build up the volume on the foam part here. Actually very important. Foam without any volume, without any darker colors and without any shadow that can't be seen right now unfortunately. Looks very flat. Therefore I'm adding these darker colors here on the bottom part. And I'm adding also some more details. Not only on the foam but also on the whitewater part here as you can see. Basically again dry brushing on some more details here. And I don't do this in other places. This would look off but in some parts I think it's appropriate. And now I'm adding the reflection from the sky to this darker part here. The key to this thing is that you let the color of the sky fade out the more you step to the front as you can see. It gets darker and more washed out. It becomes thinner and thinner. And now I'm building up the reflections from the clouds that we have. And basically the rule of thumb is that the clouds reflect on the line of the horizon. And you can basically measure with your hand. And that's what I did over and over again. To basically get in the exact location of the reflection here. And now I'm building up the foam on the part where the water basically meets the more dry sand part here. This is a fun part because you can basically just slap on a color more or less. You need some darker colors also here for these smaller foam parts. And also you need to again soften down the edges of this foam part. You can follow the horizon line again. It needs to be basically following the shape of this horizon line that we have here. And now I'm fine tuning all the reflections from the clouds that we have. You see I'm measuring. I'm putting on the whiter color from the clouds where they belong on the water here. Adding some finer details. Some debris on the beach. Also adding some more foam details on this part here. And of course going crazy with some more details on the water part here. Just turning around adding some more layers. Some more reflections from some more wave bodies more or less. It really helps to communicate the water and adds to the realism. Same goes for this part here adding even more finer details. And you know me I'm a bit of a detail lover therefore I do this. It's not necessary but I think it really helps. Now we're finished. You might also like to check out perhaps one of these two videos about the same topic here.