Draw a portrait with Paintology and improve drawing skills

This video is a quick guide on installing the app and getting started with Paintology

Loading the reference image into the Paintology canvas to enable you find tones using the color picker and also create accurate outlines for drawings.

You can set the background color of the drawing using this feature. Make sure to do this prior to the drawing.

The shade brush of the Paintology app is very versatile and allows you to make many types of drawings including portrait and also photo realistic drawings.

This short video will show you how to pick out colors using the trace bar and color picker.

There are a couple of ways to do the outline of the portrait. You can either load the 'ref - color.png' file into your Paintology app through the traced mode or the 'ref - outline.png' file.

The video here shows the outline created from the 'ref - outline.png' file. If you are new to Paintology, make sure to go through the quick short video guides on how to use the app in the previous section.

After this outline, we can go about doing the drawing and you can do this by freehand by referring to the colored drawing from another tablet or a printout. You could also keep the colored drawing in the traced mode so you can pick out color tones and shape to help you with the drawing. If you are a beginner, the latter might be the best option.

In my next two lectures of the drawing, I do the drawing by freehand by referring to the image off canvas. Usually, I have this on another tablet.

The drawing has been split into two parts.

In this first part we start of doing the blocking and slowly start to add details. Try to follow the techniques I use to creating the details and these are usually done with adjustments of the brush and selecting variations of colors.

In this second and final part of the drawing, we continue to build features on the face such as the wrinkles, beard, hair and other details that gives a 3 dimensional look to the face.

Don't worry if you are not able to get this right first time, the important thing is to keep trying and making sure that you understand the techniques rather than judging by the final outcome of the drawing. Remember, the best draughtsman, artist or any other skilled person in a specialized area of work are deeply knowledgeable about the tools of the trade. The final result of their work is a culmination of this experience and so it is important that you allow yourself time to improve in each step of the way.

There are many other tutorials for you to try, you can do some of the in-app video tutorials found on the app itself or the other Paintology courses here in Udemy, just search for Paintology.

I have provided some links to some other related Paintology courses that you can try.