Paint Watercolor Loose & Bold Like Sargent

I'm going to use this Medans tabletop easel. When I set it to this position, it is perfect for watercolor painting with watercolor papers 12 by 9 inches, 16 by 12 inches. And when I change it to this angle position, perfect for drawing, acrylics, and oil painting. It costs less than $35 with the coupon in the description. The first thing is very very crucial for me. I'm so often that they always make it tilted more than it should be. So I'm going to spend more time at the beginning making sure the angle is correct. Now the face, yeah, make sure the box is the angle is correctly because and they influence your decisions into the face, inside the face. So I'm going to draw very lightly. And it's also important. I'm going to just mark the location of the nose. It's very important. The nose is about right here. Something about right here. Like the nose here. And the nose to the chin. Almost like one and a half are the eyebrows to the nose. Could be even more. But I'm going to mark those, lightly mark those locations. I'm not going to spend too much making the line too hard. So I'm going to spend a little bit more time looking at the center line. Very important. I think the whole center line, look at it. I think the center line about, look a bit carefully. It's about like that. Even more to the this side. So if I decided this is the center line. So that means the center between the eyebrow would be on the same distance. And the nose. And the middle of the chin. And looks like the mouth a little bit too much to one side. So make sure. Yeah. And the nose. The nostril is about here. Okay, try to make everything soft at this point. I keep telling myself. Keep a little bit soft. Don't make it look too defined. And okay. Okay, I'm going to take a look. The forehead a little bit closer. I think the angle is already off. Coming down here. I think the angle is already very careful. Yeah, the angle always so easy to stare me off. Turn everything into straight line. Okay. You see this angle I just put down. That need to be this angle. Supposed to. Okay. Chin. So even though it is water-soluble color pencil. You don't want to push it too hard. And if you don't want something. And just erase it. Just like charcoal drawing. All right, I'm going to come back to the big picture. If you use straight line. I keep remind myself using straight line. Okay. I'm looking at that the temple maybe too wide already. I'm going to come back. Yeah, I'm not going to put the details too quickly. I compare the sideburn to the nose. Almost like a horizontal line. Like from here. Horizontal. Yeah, it's not too bad. That's about it. And then. Harrier said she really like his hair. So make the hair. Interesting. Now look at. It looks like it tilted a little bit too much. So I'm going to make sure I'm not going to allow it. I have to stop it. I'm going to put a little bit mark over here. That's the top of the nose. You're seeing the eyeglasses. Yeah. So this is my biggest battle. It's about getting the correct angle. You don't. Well, let's not talk about battle. Yes. Yeah, that challenge. Say the challenge. You don't have the challenge. Interesting. Yeah. I would say this is my biggest. It's easy. The easiest part to get trapped into the face angle. So I'm going to put this down over here. Use a short straight line. Okay. I think all this is about self-suggestion, self-convincing over here. I'm going to keep looking at. Is the eyeglasses right? I think this can be a little bit higher. Okay. Again, feeling the face still tilted a little bit too much. So I'm going to try to keep suggestions and keep suggesting. Okay. I'm going to draw a little bit shape for the eye. But don't make it too clear. I keep a little bit. So that I need to convince myself the angle of the face is right. See? My face is already tilted a little bit too much. I think the top over here. Okay. And on this side. Okay. I think this is coming in a little bit. The eyeglass frame. Until I totally convince I got the angle. Okay. You would never expect that this going to be melt to the water and create a blending. And so it almost never happened. So what I'm trying to do is the mark I'm putting over here is going to stay. Even after the watercolor wash. You can blend it. Still, I'm not convinced I get the angles right. So I'm going to keep working. It is a happy guide. I'm not sure. This is 2025. And could be this is 10 years ago. Or 20 years ago. Maybe. Now who knows when the photo taken. And okay. I'm going to take a look at other places first. Yeah, look at the neck over here. Okay, that's good. Here is the shoulder on this side. It's extended, connected all the way to the other side. That's good. So the ear will end it here. That. Okay. I keep looking back. Is the face is the right angle or not? I'm not totally convinced. So let's continue. Take a look at the nostril. Need to come closer. Shadow light. Again. Smiling on. Yeah. Keep looking. I'm going to double check. That I just not really see. All the thing in the angle that I wanted it. I'm going to look at the eye. What's the angle? So looks like this eye need to be come up a little bit tiny more. Sometimes like a hair higher. It make a huge difference. Even higher. Okay, that's good. Okay. I'm going to continue. Push forward. Making sure the angle is right. Sometimes it is somewhere. Just not really right. It could be this simple as the arm of the eyeglasses. It could be create that feeling. And I'm looking at the mouth. I think the mouth. I make sure that the angle. The left side and the right side is right. I think this side can be a little bit tiny lower. Like this. That's good. And then come up a little bit higher on this side. Yeah. And take a look over here. They come in a little bit more. This triangle. Yes, the mouth. The corner of the mouth and the angle of the mouth. It do a lot. Have a lot to do with the feeling of the tilted of the face. And okay. There's two. So whenever we see that the angle is not quite right. Not suggest enough. Don't want to go into the detail. Because you're going to pile up more things to fix. If you don't get that feeling right. Okay. Do a little bit more. I think this coming a little bit more distance from here. Let's see. It's a little bit better. But I just feel this side of the distance a little bit too much. And showing the face this side a little bit. And don't rush to the painting. All right. Can I come down over here? And then start a little bit closer to the mouth. That close is just a drop. Not really a huge. That's a little bit better. And then you can see this all the way coming up. And then this need to become a little bit closer. And then come up. Okay. And then make a little bit stronger line. As a part of the expression. Okay. Right here. I'm going to use this. This is going to be the mark I'm going to keep. I think a little bit better. I think this suggest this a little bit closer in. Okay. A little bit better. Again. Okay. Okay. That's a lot better. How are you doing? Actually, I like to see that is whoever members watching this videos on Patreon. I want to get a feedback on. So you actually want me to go back to use pencil. To do more drawing before the painting. Or just directly doing the painting with watercolor. I can go back to do more. Like I use color pencil to do more drawing first. If that help. And also I hope that we all hope that more people joining the collab activities. Make it the way that going to help all of us to enjoy it more. You know, we all know that too much distraction in life. Okay. Pretty good. I may not going to have too much details. Well, I'm still working on the shape. There's no T. You can see that there's no T in the mouth. But just a roll of T but no two. Yeah. That is further details down the road. We don't have to do that. Yeah. Depends on like I say. The portrait club usually is an hour. So I have to keep it to be. Right. It's a good challenge. Okay. I think that I fixed the angle a little bit better. But I still feel like this corner of the eyeglass frame need to be a little bit higher. Still a little bit higher. So make the perspective look better. Okay. That's good. Okay. Okay. Let's put a few shapes on this side. Yeah. But that is... Yeah. The whole angle is... It created the angle, the form, the tilting. The tilting is convinced by many, many things. Like for example, the forehead. So when they tilt it higher, the forehead should be smaller. So I'm going to make the forehead even a little bit smaller. So if not, the head look like a cat looking down instead of looking up. So I'm going to have even this a little bit lower. There's a lot of lots of combined together. And I'm going to have this a little bit tiny lower. And this is good, I think. Okay. I'm going to do one more thing before I start. There. I want to check on the height compared to the width of the face. So one more check. So I'm going to check and compare with this to this, the sideburn, the end of the sideburn. And let me take one more look. I think this need to be a little bit lower. Like that, coming down here a little bit lower before going out. So this to here compared to the height of the face. See, that's very crucial and important. Okay. I'm going to take a look. Take a first measure this to this on the reference. And then compare to from the chin going up. Wow, that's interesting. Right here. Okay. From here to there, chin, it goes to here to there. I want to take a look. That's good. Now I want to take a look. Pretty close. Still just a little distance. So in that case, I think I'm going to shrink both sides a little bit. Okay, this, this side. And you can shrink just a little bit tiny here. Coming in a little bit. So angle is very important. Don't rush, right? I'm not just saying that to you, saying to myself as well. That's on this side. So I'm going to take a one more look. Okay. So that means the sideburns should be right here. Ended here. Okay. What that really mean that you need to go in a little bit. So, okay. That's good. That's right. You better change it now than later, right? Because later will be too late. That's good. Like that. And that means, yeah, that's not too bad over here. And that means, and because now it's look a little bit tight. So that means the eyeglass need to go in a little bit more. So that actually will improve the impression. Okay, that's good. Okay, coming in a little bit more. There we go. That's good. Get a little bit closer. That's good. And take a look at the eye. That's good. It's going to move a little bit tiny toward the left side. Still looks good. So the frame is here. So that on this side, we have a little bit tiny more room. This is good. Also, I have shadow over here. Okay, now I come back over here. Then we find the shape of the eye. So in the portrait drawing, it often that little tiny change. It means a lot. No, the nose not halfway. Okay, let me take a look. You talk about the nostril. Okay, pretty close though. Almost right under the hairline. A little bit under the hairline. From here to this nostril and here to there. I'm going to double check. That is a good checking. After we take care of the width compared to the height, and then we would thin the height. Oh, now the nose need to be a little bit higher. So that is another thing that we suggest that how high the face tilted up. Okay, that's a good checking. Thank you. Okay, that's good. It's just a little bit higher. It would make a difference. Like from here from the bottom of the chin to the nostril. And from the nostril, it get up over there. Perfect. So right under the hairline. So that's good. Okay, this is what we... That's what originally why I come up the name. Enjoying art. Just have to enjoy it. Slow down and have fun. Like we are drawing every week. I really have the feeling. Enjoying. Let's get a lot better. I just feeling the forehead. The tempo a little bit too wide too. I feel that need to come in a little bit more. And then coming here in a little bit more. Like that. And that's it. That's it. That's good. All right, I'm going to start applying watercolor. For the teeth, I'm just going to leave it like this. Maybe have a little bit very light color. But no need to have pencil to draw out the separation. The spacing. Okay, I'm just going to use this such a 10 by 7. So I'm going to use just one calligraphy brush. This is the large size. So the first thing I'm going to wet the background. I can wet everything if I want to. So I'm going to have that. Wet it. I have the background a little bit different color. A little bit. So make it a little bit softer. Okay, that's good. And over the forehead over here. Yeah, see? So the color does melt a little bit. But the pencil is going to stay. It's not going to all going to off. So all the whole side is shadow side. Just look at where the shadow side is. That's good. And I can also just use the water. They're coming up over here. That's the soft color. Very soft tone. Actually kind of fun. Okay, that's good. That's a little bit softer. And. That's good. Yeah. And the T, I'm just going to have a little bit light shape coming down. That's good enough. Like that. A little bit softer. Right here. Right. This should be lighter. Use the water to wash it. Lighter. That's good. Okay. Now I'm going to come back over here to add a little color. Maybe a little bit tiny blue coming into the background like that. Okay, that's good. Have a little bit tiny red. Mix that in. On this, I'm going to have a lot darker. That's the red and the blue. Also they're here. And as well as down over here. That's good. It's just a regular watercolor paper. Okay, here we go. I'm going to have a little bit here. This. Okay, that's good. A little bit shadow. A little bit more blue. That's good. That need to have a little bit warmer. So here we go. A little bit warmer here. Okay. All right. I'm going to mix the three colors for the brown. Okay, here we go. Right here. So I'm going to have a little bit tiny more darker color. There you go. There we go like that. And I have a little bit more blue. Now it's this eyebrow. That. That's good. Cool. Very cool. I'm going to just use the water. Soften the color. Cross over. We're going to add a little red a little bit later. Okay. I need to make sure that the shadow side a little bit darker. Tiny darker. Just mix the red with the blue. Okay, that's good. Now I'm going to have a little bit dark color for the hair. Red and the blue. Okay. Tiny more blue. That's good. All right. I'm going to make this a little bit softer. I'm going to have this. Just use the little bit dryer brush. So lift it up. It's cool. I'm going to have a little bit darker color. Now. That's good. Okay. I'm going to have to make it too, too clear. I'm going to come in over here in the eye. Does not have to be very detailed. That's good. Not that bad. That's good. Relax a bit. The sun will always come up. Tomorrow. Okay, that's good. Okay, come to this side. Yeah, I've been writing some reflection about how I see art. And so I post it on my own website. So if you get a chance, just go to youngchen.com. And on the right hand side, the last top navigation is called reflections. And when you have a chance, take a look, read a couple and let me know how you feel. Okay, I'm going to have this a little bit darker to here, too. And still a little bit darker over here. I can have to open it up. I have a little bit dry brush. Okay. That's good. Okay, I see the water keep coming down from the top, but that's okay. And because I wet the paper and I'm going to actually have a little bit orange color put in the top. Just the red and a little bit yellow. And I'm going to put them right over here. So it's the same time. Remove that color. Remove the blue. Okay. Okay, a little bit more. Yeah. There you go. Make the face, the cheek a little bit more round. Okay, a bit. Okay, the nose. Okay, a little bit gray color. Okay, that's good. So the top over here have a little bit light color, but I can do a little lifting. So that the highlight in here, just a couple lifting, it do pretty good. Okay, we got that. Okay, and I'm going to have a little splash into the background. Yeah, a little bit warm color here. Tiny. Because there's a warm light coming from this side, from the shadow. Okay. And I think it's pretty close. I'm going to have to make sure that is the shadow over here connected over. That's a little shape over here. That's good. I'm going to have a little bit tiny red for the upper lip. Like that. And I can come back with the pencil. I can create the texture for the hair. Okay, there you go. Like that. Yeah, it work better when the area is wet. So when this is wet, it would connect a little bit better. Like over here. That pretty interesting. So if you like to see more of the color pencil, say water-soluble color pencil, use in the watercolor painting or sketch. I like to hear your experience. Sometimes less is more. So you don't have to make it look really, really finished. Maybe leave it a bit look unfinished. Probably even better. So I'm going to put a little suggestions at the top over here. Do that, showing the ear as well as the background. And putting that into the hair. That's good. I hope you guys would come to join the member club next week.