BRUSHTOBER // acrylic portraits (Patreon)

Some of my brushtober work from this week! So here's the story: my first acrylic drawing completely backfired. I tried to make a painting of clouds catching the sunset light and it just really didn't work out the way I wanted to. Here's a photo:

The main thing that was frustrating me here were the colors. I wanted a vivid lilac-ish color, and intense pinks, but I was getting blue, dark red and purples. I felt like they were super muddy and it brought back memories of using acrylics in high school. All my art turned out muddy back then and it basically led to me avoiding traditional media entirely as soon as I was done with art school. 

So I realized that my main challenge for this week would be to keep the colors vivid and bright. I got myself some neon pink and tried to be more mindful when blending, and so far this seems to be working a lot better. I'm sticking to portraits for now since that's my comfort zone, and might give me more of a handle on this paint! I filmed the process for the second portrait with the earrings, I'll be posting that as soon as it's edited!