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Painting Acrylic Portraits: Highlighting Nose to Mouth

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Summary: Make acrylic portraits realistic by painting a light reflection above the lips. Highlight the indentation above the mouth when painting acrylic portraits with tips from an illustrator in this free art video.

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Anna Greene-Smith Anna Greene-Smith is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from MassArt in Boston in 2006 and spent some time studying at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgo... read more

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Painting Acrylic Portraits: Highlighting Nose to Mouth

OK, often people's cupid's bow, this would be this bit here right between the nose and the mouth. These lines, this indentation going in right there would be really dark. On this reference, because of the lighting that was used straight on to take this picture, it's not that dark, we can just see it here. So let's add a little bit of white, a highlight to this to emphasize a little bit. OK. And there is, the light catches on a little line right above the lips on most people so we'll add that a little bit too. OK.

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