DOS and DON'TS of Painting EYES - Oil Painting Tutorial for Beginners

Today, let’s talk about painting one of the most difficult and crucial features of the face : eyes. We’ll see why they are so tricky, dos and don’ts and how you can actually be more successful by simplifying
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:02 Outline vs Mass
05:42 Keep the Iris for the end
07:25 The Most Important is What cannot be seen
08:41 Shadows on itself
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Пікірлер: 51

  • @johnn.crappell9763
    @johnn.crappell97632 жыл бұрын

    Sir... you are both an incredible painter and instructer! Thank you for sharing your Gift, Talent and Knowledge with the world. God Bless!

  • @brian1291
    @brian12912 жыл бұрын

    I’m a photorealism graphite/color pencil artist, and you sir have been motivating me to want to start oil painting! Hopefully it’ll be a easy transition

  • @fidanabasova7642
    @fidanabasova76422 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Florent, for helping us with your knowledge and making this world a better place

  • @judithcorstjens2650
    @judithcorstjens26502 жыл бұрын

    Very good advice. It was clever to show the wrong X one first, so helpful. Thanks

  • @susanwong6471
    @susanwong64712 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the best advice of how to paint realistic eyes- thank you for sharing generously !❤️

  • @iMakeThat
    @iMakeThat2 жыл бұрын

    Yay! Thank you Florent! Always learning so much from you 🎨

  • @zc4789
    @zc4789 Жыл бұрын

    painting is hard

  • @art_sunflower_me

    @art_sunflower_me

    Ай бұрын

    It's all in practice!

  • @TessMArt
    @TessMArt9 ай бұрын

    I love your excellent tuition,. I love to hear it in your smooth, calm, suave and unique speaking voice.

  • @TomatoBreadOrgasm
    @TomatoBreadOrgasm2 жыл бұрын

    Great advice for beginners! Something I see in a lot of novice work is eyes that are too big. We look at people's eyes so much that our minds exaggerate them. Focusing on form as defined by the shadows is probably the most important skill I learned as an artist.

  • @es1653
    @es16534 ай бұрын

    Florent is always a terrific art professor!!!

  • @sardine2102
    @sardine21022 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting approach. 🙏

  • @Nannie-Short-Legs
    @Nannie-Short-Legs2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this tutorial I have been trying to do portraits and start off ok then loose the features as I go along, so your process will help me to not keep making the same mistakes again and again. Thank you. I hope you might be able to do one on noses, as they are harder for me. I appreciate your wonderful educational videos

  • @BTSHIQ
    @BTSHIQ2 жыл бұрын

    Great video Florent! Thank you!

  • @jorgedangelo3331
    @jorgedangelo33312 жыл бұрын

    Hola, excelente! gracias por enseñar y compartir!

  • @miloman51
    @miloman512 жыл бұрын

    Just bloody great... thanks

  • @mariadelcarmencabralrodrig9366
    @mariadelcarmencabralrodrig9366 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing your acknowledge! You are a great artist! I recently started watching your videos and It's helping me a lot with my portraits paintings. still long way to go but still practicing every day! Once again thank you very much!

  • @hollynorth8842
    @hollynorth88422 ай бұрын

    Thank you, very helpful!

  • @JestanYT
    @JestanYT2 жыл бұрын

    Great video, Florent!

  • @Curly_tales
    @Curly_tales2 жыл бұрын

    So informative Thankyou ♥️

  • @yematosan8837
    @yematosan88372 жыл бұрын

    Yes this is a real mathod . good job.

  • @tiffanyshiels1910
    @tiffanyshiels19106 ай бұрын

    Fabulous

  • @petteriroiha1517
    @petteriroiha15172 жыл бұрын

    Amazing content again! Do you have a video on that stick you use for arm support?

  • @Rbkamel
    @Rbkamel2 жыл бұрын

    awasom video and great atrist sharing a great tips an advisies

  • @tomsiteman5731
    @tomsiteman573110 ай бұрын

    Great video

  • @we4k35
    @we4k35 Жыл бұрын

    Nice vid bro loved it🔥

  • @Henry-gn8kn
    @Henry-gn8kn Жыл бұрын

    At this point of My game, I was happy with the first one, but I definitely know what you are saying. Thank You God Bless Everyone

  • @aleksandarg8642
    @aleksandarg86422 жыл бұрын

    Great video Florent and so informative, Thank you!!

  • @Lluks4
    @Lluks4 Жыл бұрын

    This was immensely helpful. I haven't even watched the third section and already I was able to figure out why my eyes looked cartoonish and weird when I wasn't trying for it--i wasn't painting the mass around the lids/lashes, which turned out to be more important to looking right than the actual "eye" as we tend to think of it, which o got from section 2. And, just as you said, it was easier to get proportionate eyes once I had those shapes. I feel like the tendency of beginners to paint eyes too large is probably their brain trying to reconcile them not noticing those shapes.

  • @user-pb8vm9xz9u
    @user-pb8vm9xz9u2 жыл бұрын

    تسلم ايدك يا فنان

  • @veraluciaandersen9187
    @veraluciaandersen91876 ай бұрын

    Nossa! Lindíssimo

  • @seyieseyie8959
    @seyieseyie8959 Жыл бұрын

    Sir i really love those lines -3:25 people usually keep on telling me but i give it a damn... But then after I heard this same thing from you.. so I decided that now onwards I'll obey the way of your painting😌✨

  • @shuvoDhar.5537
    @shuvoDhar.55372 жыл бұрын

    Great👍👍

  • @FlorentFargesarts

    @FlorentFargesarts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you 👍

  • @welcome1875
    @welcome18752 ай бұрын

    Tq❤❤

  • @deusmorthem441
    @deusmorthem4412 жыл бұрын

    interested in the training course because just Florent's videos on yt have helped immensely, but I am acrylic painter (trying to be!) and don't use oil paints. would this course still be recommended for someone like me? or only for oil painting? thanks in advance.

  • @kr6302
    @kr63022 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much. I really hope nose is next haha, noses destroy my drawings and paintings. I just don't know how to approach it. 🙏

  • @amitaanand5897
    @amitaanand58972 жыл бұрын

    Please share a portrait with white and black colour

  • @emiliecoffin1651
    @emiliecoffin16512 жыл бұрын

    Hi sir!! I find one of the biggest issues I have with painting or drawing is my shaky hands, I see you have a thing you can rest your hand on, what is it? I’m not sure how you lay it so it doesn’t rest in the paint or bonk you head, which I’m sure I would achieve both😅 sincerely, shaky hands

  • @JCarrera27
    @JCarrera272 жыл бұрын

    👏🖤

  • @maggs131
    @maggs1312 жыл бұрын

    Will this technique work on the right eye?

  • @abhijitganguly5339
    @abhijitganguly5339 Жыл бұрын

    What is the cost of your instructional course?is it in form of DVD?

  • @BipolarCourage
    @BipolarCourage2 жыл бұрын

    I think it depends on what style you are going for. Both eyes look great. First more stylised and bold. Second more subtle.

  • @dimitrispapadimitriou5622

    @dimitrispapadimitriou5622

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. Dos and don'ts about aesthetics are almost always relative. It depends from what you want to.achieve / express..

  • @marlydelopez
    @marlydelopez Жыл бұрын

    😘😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

  • @user-ih8ls4wi2n
    @user-ih8ls4wi2n6 ай бұрын

    Hi sir am from India how to mix skin colour Asian oil enamel white and single red golden yellow.? It ther Asian oil paint available in store , I want paint in fibre glass space doll product, ,? Please tell how to mix skin tone India white face colour. Please 🙏

  • @user-ih8ls4wi2n

    @user-ih8ls4wi2n

    6 ай бұрын

    Please make video for India style face sir please please

  • @socratesthecabdriver
    @socratesthecabdriver2 жыл бұрын

    🙏🌊🔱🌪️🌪️🌪️

  • @saranevillerogueart9627
    @saranevillerogueart96278 ай бұрын

    I like the cartoon eye better

  • @blackbox5906
    @blackbox5906 Жыл бұрын

    🥃

  • @maxjason3248
    @maxjason32482 жыл бұрын

    🕊🥰😘Fantastic🔥! * Now my core is burning indeed, but I'm REIKOO.Uno not sure if the girls would have been equally excited of my performance like they were of Mel's😉!❤ And it's soo funny to see how much these overly playfula girls actually kept of your attention 🤩