You will see the dry brush painting technique in a slower version of this video- www.youtube.com WE NEED A VISUAL ARTS CATEGORY ON YOUTUBE THREAD-www.google.com Facebook- facebook.com Twitter- twitter.com Website- merrillk.com (Merrill) Supplies I Use- http – Watercolor Paper – Bristle Brushes – Black Oil Paint – Mineral Spirits – Kneaded Eraser All music by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com Thank you Kevin! 0 Right now I am blocking in all of the black shapes. I am NOT doing “dry brush” right now. My brush is quite wet. You can call this a “wash” of black. It is to speed the process up a bit. 0:43 Notice that I will use SEVERAL different brushes on this portrait. I try to use the larger brushes whenever possible so that I could block in SHAPES not LINES! Using bigger brushes accurately is a skill which is built over time. Even though lines BARELY EXIST on the human body, people seem more comfortable working with a fine point. If you want to be good at drybrush, break that habit (get used to rendering shapes NOT lines). 1:08 I am still using too much mineral spirits at this point. You want your brush to be relatively dry. DUH! Dry brush? 1:08 The watercolor paper is like QUICK SAND! It will separate the paint from the mineral spirits and the binder instantaneously and leave a charcoal like residue on the surface. Eventually, we will erase part of this residue to create the highlights. 1:28 Squint your eyes (if you have to) at the reference image (easy to find online) to see …
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Im gonna do this in minecraft.
You are very skilled! I like the freedom you seem to have while drawing/painting!
I make good sketches but I’m always scared of f***ing up my drawing! And as a result my sketches end up a bit flat in terms of shades and highligts!
hmm if i were you i will send it to Hetfield or go to a live concert and give it to him :))
can you make a tutorial how to draw marilyn manson? Pleaseee!!! :D
here’s a good one :till lindemann from rammstein? plz plz plz
Your work is amzaing! everytime i try to do dry brush the erasier just doesnt take up any paint at all. do you have any advice?
can you make a tutorial how to draw ronnie radke !!! please? :D
he should of played like master of puppets during this or something
honestly, where did you learn to paint this good? how do i become good too?
nice
I double his request :)
AWESOME. Have you ever tried drawing with graphine powder?
can u draw in normal motion one time? not in fast speed :P
is a little hard to see what you are doing.
Wow! That’s amazing! 
Can u draw willow smith please for my little cousin
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Draw Selena Gomez?
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Can u pleaseee draw Selena Gomez??please
Can you please make some videos on how to draw step by step still life? anything will be good…
This is the funniest video EVER! I’m watching this and it finally hits me, this guy is drawing James Hetfield, and plugs this collection as the soundtrack to it! Bwuahahahaha!! Awesome
how are u that good at painting im a good artist and yet i suck at painting
WOW this is… AWESOME!!!! Could you draw Matthew Bellamy?
Keep at it , im afraid that preety soon all forms of painting will convert into digital but theres something about an actual legit procces of feeling the paper and working with the stuff to create art.
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