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PORTRAIT ART TUTORIAL: It All Started With A Paper Doll Cutout - Fun Process, Great Way To Practice

Head Trip Creations

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Hi All!

I have drawn 100's of faces from scratch and will continue to do so, but with AI at my fingertips, I cannot resist the urge to create black line outline of a head and face aka paper doll to see how I can dress it up!

That is exactly what I did with this gal. So fun!

Thank you for watching! Enjoy!

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Ann :) xo

HEAD TRIP CREATIONS
@headtripcreations

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PRODUCTS USED
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9X12 Canson 140 lb Watercolor Paper
(12x12 Gelli Plate as a base to hold the paper in place)

Paper Doll Cutout: Head, Face, Neck and Shoulder
(Generated in ChatGPT)

DIY Fence Template
(Card Stock - Cut on Cricut)

Cold Coffee (Folger's Instant)
Hot Pink Acrylic
Black Acrylic
Diluted Cream Acrylic
White Iridescent Shimmer Spray

Black Gel Pen (Arteza)
No. 2 Pencil
Brown colored pencil (Prismacolor)
Black Acrylic Ink (used with spray bottle)
Glass Calligraphy Pen

Art Foamies Asemic Writing Stamp
DIY Collage Paper
Rubber Stamps (Letters: small and medium)

Soft Resist Stick (Grumbacher)
Cold Wax Candle Stick (for resist)
Brown Oil Pastel Stick (for color and resist)

8 Comments

@chermckittrick2216 1 day ago

The ashtrays! What a brilliant idea..

@jayneelinor 19 hours ago

I admire your bravery and just going for an adding letter after layer of grunginess. If I like a face I’m working on, I tend to get precious about it and then don’t push the limits. I guess that’s one thing to be said for tracing someone else’s work, you’re not technically ruining anything that you’ve done because you can just trace it again.

@savanahevans9551 1 day ago

❤❤❤ today’s video! À thought crossed me that you might enjoy a lady Claudia Stapel’s portraits. She has YouTube channel with all shorts if you search her name. I think you would really like parts of her process. Thank you for sharing! Til next week…!

@JanineCampbell-f6e 1 day ago

Hi Ann. Thanks for sharing your process. I find it extremely helpful as you take us through - especially how you push through those could be disasters and turn them into added interest. I am slowly (very) learning to let go and experiment more - to deliberately add the grunge, but its a slow process, so thanks so much for your help and inspiration. Love this piece.

@creativeambitionsart-h3o 1 day ago

Wow! This one looks like a 90s magazine ad! The way the cream acrylic and the coffee bloomed together gave a Boca effect, and I love the pink that you added in her face! When you made your mistake with the black, it was funny because she was looking at it and then you put the writing so it still goes with the flow of the composition 😉 I think I might steal your idea for the ashtrays, that is genius! As you are doing this, and I’m watching, you’re getting pretty close to the end, I am thinking of all the different colors of tea that I have and now want to paint on watercolor paper with them over ink washes 🤔 I was using a stamp yesterday to put a leaf theme on my jewelry cards… Feeling like I wanna put that in as well! I don’t usually put stencils or stamps, but I do have them and would like to start using them… Wonderful work as usual Ann! Very inspirational! And yes, the lips are gorgeous 😘 👄 ✨

@OmaStudioArt 17 hours ago

Beautiful!

@MarionFaccin 1 day ago

Hi Ann, she is gorgeous looking! Thanks!

@julielafontaine4500 1 day ago

Oh my goodness..she is beautiful..I so much love to enjoy my Sunday morning cuppa watching you create..can you tell me what watercolor paper you use..I did a little practice on acrylic paper yesterday but it was cheap paper and it buckles..I guess I am really scared to use Arches watercolour paper..when I paint on canvas board I tend to not be so brave with mixed media and revert to acrylics a lot