Fundamentals To Mastering Stylized Portrait Painting Class Work ~upd~ Page
Your brushwork should also tell a story. Rough, scratchy brushes suggest anxiety or energy. Smooth, soft gradients suggest calm or romance.
Great stylists (like Loish, Ross Tran, or Craig Mullins) operate on an 80/20 principle: 80% anatomical logic, 20% expressive distortion. If you elongate a nose without understanding the nasal bone structure, it looks broken, not beautiful. If you enlarge eyes without understanding the orbital socket, they look like alien stickers, not expressive windows to the soul. Your brushwork should also tell a story
A master stylist never paints skin using just "skin color." it looks broken