Acrylics question

Hi!!!

I have some question.I'm acrylics nob so can you send some tips about acrylics.about lights and shading,smooth layers etc.

best regards

Hello, the most important thing about acrylics is the water, more water and the mix will be more watercolor, less water and the mix will be more pure color, another important thing are the layers, when you work with acrylics you work layer by layer, first the lights and then the shadows. The darker color always cover the lighter color...
This is a good example...



The mid tone is the (base color)  you do first he lights and after that all the shadows. If the contrast between the light and shadow is too strong you should paint with a very dilute mid tone just in the union between these two colors.

The second graphics show how you should paint the concave and convex figure, for example a piece of clothe...

nice thakns i will try it

can you tell me your white mix and black

Hello for the whites sometime I use a base of

Deck Tan
German Beige
Green Brown

And for blacks

Black
Sunskin tone
English Uniform or Pink

how to make smooth lights and shadows?

Excatlon wrote:

how to make smooth lights and shadows?

To do soft lights and shadows, you need a basic control of the water paint, when you do a transition between a light and shadow you have to paint with a very dilute paint, be sure to dry a little bit the brush with a piece of cloth before to paint, once you painted the first layer wait a bit until the paint dry and then you can do the second layer, repeat until you get satisfied...

Ernesto
En otro foro vi que alguien recomendaba usar "purple" para las luces pintando negro...QUe opinas? Lo as usado alguna vez? Se prodrian usa otros colores como el rod o el azul....?

MBD wrote:

Ernesto
En otro foro vi que alguien recomendaba usar "purple" para las luces pintando negro...QUe opinas? Lo as usado alguna vez? Se prodrian usa otros colores como el rod o el azul....?

Pero el purpura para que? para las luces del color negro?

Si para las luces, ero por eso preguntaba si se pueden usar otros colores como rojo o sobretodo azul....

Si claro, para los negros suele usarse en las luces algunas veces el rosa antiguo o el azul, yo suelo usar el carne dorada, tambien el uniforme ingles

gracias