Japanese Style Watercolor Portraits

Detailed step-by-step lessons make it easy to create beautiful watercolor portraits! Japanese Style Watercolor Portraits takes you through each step of the watercolor portrait process, from sketching your subject to layering in the colors. Hiroko Shibasaki provides expert guidance to help you develop a trained eye and skilled hands, with insightful information on the best materials to use so your painting time is enjoyable and hassle-free. The portraits presented in the 12 comprehensive painting tutorials express a distinctively captivating Japanese aesthetic - the subjects in the foreground are rendered in exquisite detail, while the backgrounds are only deftly suggested. This technique places the emphasis on the masterful portraits, leaving it to the viewer's imagination to fill in the peripheral details. Detailed lessons in this book include: Working with a model. Completing the sketch. Preparing and mixing paints. Blocking in base skin tones. Rendering fine details, such as facial features, hairstyles and clothing. Blending and shading. Painting portraits of children. And much more!