• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Watch Free Demo
  • Login
  • Contact
  • Customer Support

Old Masters Academy

How to paint like the Old Masters using modern materials

  • About
  • Free Demo
  • Art Lessons
    • Personal Tutoring
  • Pricing
  • Community ▾
    • Win Art Course
    • Watch Free Demo
    • Artwork Critique
    • Students Gallery
    • Art Articles
    • Academy Team
    • News
  • Reviews
  • FAQ

Portrait Drawing in Flemish Style – How to Add Final Touches to a Portrait

Art Lesson 46, Part 9

Discover how to make a Portrait Drawing in Flemish Style

Learn how to paint like the Old Masters!

Old Masters Academy Online Course
Self-study, self-paced online video course

Lifetime membership
One-time payment: $487

Enroll Now!
Personal Tutoring online + Online Course
Unlimited tutoring by the Academy teachers

Lifetime membership
One-time payment: $997

Enroll Now!


« Back to the Art Lessons List

How to Add Final Touches to a Portrait

We almost finished the portrait. Look at your work and give it last touches required.

Portrait Drawing in Flemish Style - How to Add Final Touches to a Portrait

Portray the person looking directly at the viewer was something quite new at North Renascence at the turn of 15 and 16 centuries; in the Netherlands this technique occurs for the first time in van Eyck’s portraits. Nowadays nothing can surprise viewer in art. Thousands of portraits looking directly at you from canvases won’t cause a sense of astonishment. But only imagine, in times when sacral art played the main role in art, secular portraits serve pure functional role not only to document the appearance of sitter but show him or her full of Christianity virtues. And in such limitations the direct glaze of sitter might considered as too liberated.

Portrait Drawing in Flemish Style - How to Add Final Touches to a Portrait

Returning to the process – by looking at your drawing from the distance you can find out what exactly your drawing is lucking of. Look at tonal masses, at general impression. In this case the artist decides to make some adjustments to enforce lower part of the drawing. And make the part under hands a bit darker in mass with more expressed folders and cast shadows. Comparing with it the whiteness of dorsum would be more extended. It becomes natural, gradual transition from darkest area under the hands to lightest part of dress.

Portrait Drawing in Flemish Style - How to Add Final Touches to a Portrait

When you begin a new drawing, it is a good idea to revise works of great masters. If you do this carefully and thoughtfully, and take in a full enjoyment, your eye will unconsciously be lead to see in nature some of the qualities of the master’s work. And you will see the subject to be drawn as a much finer than would have been the case had you come to it with your eye unprepared in any way. Reproductions are now so good and cheap that the best drawings in the world can be had for a few pence, and every student should begin collecting reproductions of the things that interest him.

Portrait Drawing in Flemish Style - How to Add Final Touches to a Portrait

It was a great journey to go through making the portrait from the concept idea to the very end. We hope you had enjoyed the process and have learned some new tips and techniques you can now use to perfect your drawing skills.


Learn how to paint like the Old Masters!

Old Masters Academy Online Course
Self-study, self-paced online video course

Lifetime membership
One-time payment: $487

Enroll Now!
Personal Tutoring online + Online Course
Unlimited tutoring by the Academy teachers

Lifetime membership
One-time payment: $997

Enroll Now!

Primary Sidebar

Search Website

Members Area

You are not currently logged in.








» Lost your Password?

Watch Free Demo

Old Masters Academy

Art Course

» Personal Tutoring
» Art Lessons
» Free Demo
» Enroll in the Course

Art Community

» Win Art Course
» Art Competition Winners
» Art Competition Archive
» Artwork Critique
» Students Gallery
» Art Articles
» Academy Team
» News

Course Tutor

» Natalie Richy

Fine Art Resources

Watercolor Academy - How to paint in watercolor Life Drawing Academy - How to draw figures and portraits Drawing Academy Anatomy Master Class Art-Fame

Footer

Watercolor Academy

Art Lessons

About Old Masters Academy™
Art Lessons
Personal Tutoring
Free Demo
Old Masters Academy Pricing

Life Drawing Academy

Discover

Art Competition
Old Masters Academy FAQ
Old Masters Academy Reviews
Old Masters Academy News
Fine Art Resources

Drawing Academy

Support & Legal

Contact
Customer Support
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use and Service
Sales & Refund Policy

Anatomy Master Class

Students Area

Members Login
Artwork Critique
Students Gallery
Old Masters Academy Community
Old Masters Academy Team

© 2007-2023 · Old Masters Academy · All rights reserved.