This post is going to show how I have gone about painting an acrylic piece when I am trying to accomplish fine detail. This example probably isn't my best piece EVER but it was one that I happened to capture to show my steps.
First you need your reference photo or model. It's near impossible for me to get the lighting on a subject by just imagination so I usually work best off of something that I can gauge proper shadow, highlight, and reflection.
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As someone who had been into art for most of her life, there are days, months, and years of highly creative periods and also uncreative periods. Back in grade school, I had a good amount of creativity, especially as doodles and a part of art class. In college, since my degree revolved around art, it was one's duty to be creative for class projects so art was feeling a bit forced. After college, it was trying to learn the proper art needed for my day job, which took a lot of the creative juices out of my personal artwork if I did any of my own art at all.
After a few years working my 9 to 5, I found Deviantart, a social community site for artists to share and sell art. The community aspect of the site really helped me reengage with my own art again and learn more ways of using Adobe products outside of college while also getting better into photography. As a few more years passed, my then future husband helped me reinvigorate my craft at doing fine art when we both would do art together with some friends every week in said friends' basement. It helps to do art with friends and I have seen the reason why impressionists and other artists would group up and do art together. Once upon a time there was a shy little girl, so shy in fact, that she was too shy to ask her mom for a glass of milk when she was learning to speak...
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