Basic Animal Face Painting
Animal designs are some of the best-loved face paintings because these themes vary greatly in design-you can create spots, stripes, whiskers, fangs, cat's eyes, dog's "black-eye", pug nose, beaks and so much more! This article will show you the basics of animal face painting and how to further enhance your skills.
First, get to know the basic animal designs. The most popular beginner's design is the butterfly and bunny. Here are other animals you can portray in your animal face painting:
- Lion -Tiger -Cheetah -Cat -Dalmatian -Cow -Chicken -Owl -Sheep -Pig
From these basic animal designs, you can already put your own twist by adding different kinds of patterns. To get started, here are basic animal details:
1. Making Spots - use round brush to make dots and spots. With this simple animal face painting technique you can create Dalmatian spots. Try drawing a circle around one eye and filling it in with solid color to create a dog's "black eye." You can then move on to creating cheetah spots by making solid dots and then creating a circle around them.
2. Stripes - can be used for tiger or zebra designs. Create wavy lines across the face with a brush. There are many books available that can show you where to direct those lines.
3. Noses - creating noses are easy. You can simply apply a black, pink or red spot on the nose.
4. Beaks - beaks are made by the illusion of "sticking out" of the face. Find detailed instructions from books or online information on animal face painting.
5. Eyes - animals have different kinds of eyes. Paint on a vertical line that has a thicker middle and pointed ends for cat's eyes.
6. Fur and feathers - for a step-by-step instruction of how to create the illusion of furs and feathers with paint alone, you can search for online books on face painting.
These are the basic animal face painting designs and patterns. Now, prepare yourself for actual face painting. Here is a basic procedure:
Step 1: Prepare the palette of colors that you will need for the design you want to make. For example, a tiger is going to need a color palette of orange for the base, black for stripes, yellow for eyes and white for the lower eyelids.
Step 2: Determine whether you are doing an entire face painting or doing a partial face painting only. For those who don't want the whole face to be painted, add some animal-like features only in a small area like the eyes or part of the cheek.
Step 3: Begin painting! The typical animal face painting procedure is by first painting on the base with a moist sponge and placing the details or animal patterns with a brush last. Now that you have the basics on animal face painting, learn more about specific procedures on each animal and advanced techniques online.
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