How I did It

[irudley]

If you are ordering from outside of Florida, you don't pay sales tax anyway. If you are ordering from a school, I will absorb the sales tax. So either way, the price to you is $49.95 plus $5. for shipping. (I ship Priority Mail in the US for 2 day delivery). You can order with PayPal from my site: cfsvideo dot net/Newsite and leave off the sales tax.

Thanks in advance for the order.

[irudley]

The video can be sent almost anywhere in the world, but is available in only English. If there were enough demand for it in another language, it can be done, but so far, this is the first request.

[hooperlara]

@irudley Hello. I am a high school teacher and would love to purchase your 'How I did it" dvd. Our school district is very strict about any purchase being tax free. Do you charge tax? Can you do a tax exempt charge?

Thanks. Lara

[rochyparissi]

hello !!  I saw your you Tube videos and I am some questions. Does the video "how I did it" have subtitules in espanish? .can you send me the video to Mexico?

[devinSG]

I've been painting/drawing all my life and I am currently a junior at my high school New World School of the Arts and I would like to ask a quick question as a fellow artist. What colors are you using to get your skin tones. Mine always come out as a orange and even when I mix in some cools to tone it down, it doesn't seem to work. I would appreciate any feedback. -Devin

[irudley]

@devinSG Mix 2 parts Yellow Ocher with 1 part Cadmium Red Light. Start adding white to get stages up to your lightest skin values. Break off some of the middle tone and add small amounts of Sap Green for the cooler shadow areas. Break off some more middle tone and add Burnt sienna for the warmer shadows. This should get you going in the right direction. Then look for other cool and warm colors in the subject. Experiment.

[shameless792]

nicework thx for teaching us:)

[thumbelina281]

This reeeally helped me for my art practical! AWSUM!

[irudley]

@thumbelina281 You reeeally should get my DVD titled "How I Did It". There is about ten times the information on the DVD than you got out of the 4 minute version of that DVD.

I'm not allowed to put the address for my site in this reply, but you can see it on any of my YouTube videos.

Happy painting.

Irv

[irudley]

@thumbelina281 Check out another one of my YouTube videos, "Anatomy of a Portrait" for a little more instruction.

youtube.com/watch?v=659xG50KbG­s

[artistsavannah]

So impressed!!! You really are a master of the paintbrush! I learned so much from this video! Thank you ~Lisa

[irudley]

@artistsavannah Thanks for the compliment.

What you saw was a 4 minute version of the full hour and 10 minute training DVD that I'm selling for $49.95. It will be really helpful to you. If you're interested you can

check out my web site for info on how to get it.

Irv

[hunnieluv0]

very good paintings tought me a few things! thank you !

[irudley]

You're welcome to download the video if you can. However, if you buy my hour and 10 minute DVD titled "How I Did It", I also give an extra bonus DVD of some of my YouTube videos. Check my web site for ordering info for the DVD.

[tom3167]

this was very soothing, is there by anychance i could download it , as im from england

[JoeHardy15]

You're like a master, dude! I'm taking my first oil painting class in college and we have to do a grey tone portrait. It already looks great thanks to you're killer vids!!! Maybe I can send you a shot of it when I'm done!

[irudley]

Thanks. I hope you will watch my series of teaching videos. They are very basic and are designed to help people like yourself that are just starting to paint. The first is called "Drawing 101".

[JoeHardy15]

Sweet! Yeah, I've been doing pencil portrait commissions for a few months now. I studied portraiture last semester and was blessed with meeting a lady who got me set up on commissions. Just finished two large pencil portrait commissions tonight! Next week will be setting them up for photographs. Gotta document them for teacher before I send them off. Worked on one for about ten hours today...just finished fixing it. Also just finished a copy of an old master oil portrait for class!

[straightoutadawood]

absolutely amazing

[artgirl155]

thank you so much for inspiring me how to paint...im more of a sketch artist and want to be more.

really, thanks for the tips!

[irudley]

Check my new YouTube video "A Portrait Montage". Also check my web site where I offer a DVD titled "How I Did It". I will teach you a lot.

[alvarodesigner]

I like it very much!

Alvarodesigner

Brasil

[mycompasstv]

Excellent!

[Albireneo]

Thanks for the tips. I just started my first oil painting a week ago, but I wish I would have watched this first. ^^;

[irudley]

If you started your first oil painting 6 months ago as you said, you should be up to number 50 by now, or you're doing something wrong. If you are up to, or close to 50, you should see a remarkable improvement by now, and the next 50 will amaze you.

[Lunasakuramoon]

Well done! thanks for the tips :DD

I'm gonna practice very hard.

[hugoleonardoag]

Your job is very good!

[monicadalincourt]

wonderful

[SIRATJI]

my drawing (even though i say so myself...) is good. However when i color the face, i cannot make the highs and lows very prominent so it comes out flat...Can i send you a copy of my sketches?

[SIRATJI]

wow you really are good. I am a beginer but my portraits just look flat...the angles seem to be missing....any hints?

[irudley]

Practice drawing. Without good draftsmanship, you portraits will always be lacking. Do lots of quick sketches and read books that teach drawing techniques.

[usidechido]

WOW you are a great artist, thanks so much for sharing, I paint in acrylic but this is very helpful to me...

[cameratabarese]

no doubt he's an artist!

[jebbadiah1234]

what colours do you use for your skin tones? im a beginner and i cant seem to get the right shade, it either goes to orangey or to pinky thanks

[irudley]

Skin color is mostly a reflection of the light falling on it, plus some blues and greens from the underlying blood vessels, so it's tough to say that certain colors will always look natural. I start out with a mixture of Yellow Ocher, Cadmium Red Light, and white. I'll add Sap green or Raw Umber for the cool shadows, and Burnt Umber or Burnt Sienna for the warm shadows. Other colors from clothes or walls reflecting on the skin also help. Most people try using various shades of brown. Wrong!

[KiingIvan]

good video man......keep it up

[McFlyxFan92]

wow! Amazing!!

[anime1lvr]

aww you look so nice!

[artettina]

Yes he is very good!

[RiekeWii]

it is amazing! for sure!

[radiolies]

Such a good job! This is really the first video on you tube for painting portraits that I found to be helpful. Thank you!!

[irudley]

I have a few more YouTube videos up for your viewing. Thanks for your comments

[davidavraham2008]

Irv, Great job! And you have an interesting technique. I'd love to see more of your process. Thanks!!

[irudley]

I have a few more YouTube videos up for your viewing. Thanks for your comments

[davidavraham2008]

Thanx Irv...I keep practicing, please keep up the great vids-they help...

[ksuhuh]

I highly doubt that most people prefer hyperrealism. In the U.S. perhaps, but here in Europe, no galleries would want it. Although I must say your technique is very impressive, it's really uptight. Why not work a little looser, no projected sketches, just a couple of baselines and really loose and very visible brushstrokes overall. That would liven up your work greatly. Painting hyperrealistic is just a craft, putting expression in your brushstrokes, is art(in my opinion ofcourse).Imperfection<3

[vonTresckow]

Yeah, your right, but to paint hyperrealism is great, also in Europe. But not to paint like "real photos", but more like "surrealism". Things, that could not be real, but painted as real. For example "La reproduction interdite" by René Magritte.........absolut genial.

[irudley]

I do work looser and without the initial sketch from time to time to practice working from life. Check my recent YouTube posting of "Shy Guy".

[Bluwhodesign]

this was great I like seeing the background work, I see too many artists fake it on video, like they need no guidelines.

[ksuhuh]

It's most likely not fake, alot of painters don't or hardly use guidelines.

[Bluwhodesign]

With real paints I understand that because it's hard to not paint over lines, but I'm talking about computer drawings, I'm good with a mouse even a pen tablet but control is still a shoty thing with computers. I think they cut it in editing or go backwards on a piece. It still takes alot of studies to make it photo realistic with out guides and a model or photo or template, they don't show that part either.

[hg46]

Hi Irv,

wonderful painting, but did you run out of paint for the bottom part?

Hope you get to finish it soon because you have a great talent

[irudley]

I have been criticized for being too photorealistic, so sometimes I leave the bottom unfinished so there is no doubt that it is a painting.

[TheMcklain]

Hi Irv:

Could you please give a mail to get in contact for some doubts about the ordering or do you see the messages we send you by youtube?

PS Awesome procedure

[erictfrancis]

this is amazing

[ghettobeats]

the painting pops right out of the kanvas like 3D it looks so life like... awesome job!

[sassybird48]

sour grapes, perhaps...

(how about, instead of an negative comment, a positive one...did your momma never tell you that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all?)

[hushcolours]

Hi Irv,

Great work, especially when done in four hours.

Alla prima (I guess we could call it so) is not for everyone.

Kind regards,

José

[RenzoColameo]

Beautifull job!!!! Very nice. Thanks. Ciao

[Fr3ddy7]

Old and wise... 5starrs!

[aniger818]

did you say that it took you just under four hours? thats fast!

[ABurglerWithTheLot]

Great Video! Nice work.

[irudley]

Thanks.

With practice you can do as well and better.

irudley

[spyrgyro]

that was an amazing painting..i'm into graphite portraiture right now and i'm thinking about going into painting as well..that's why i want to expose myself as much possible to different techniques and tips on how to go about painting portraits..great video..i hope to see more of your paintings in the future..bye the way, do you have a website where i can see some of your works?

[mooncakemary]

great video, thank you for posting it!

[irudley]

Thanks for the compliment.

[lmbonapart]

nice painting.

Dead underlayer is a term derived from the flemish technique of oilpainting. It requires 7 layers. Initial drawing with pen, etc.

Old masters first painted their work in burned Umber (1 or 2 layers) and than add a dead layer (It looks like the moon is shining over your painting). This grissaille or gray painting made it more easy to add colorlayers.

After this the artist (like Rubens and Van Eyck) added the colorlayers. It gives a nice and 3d mixed look :)

[irudley]

Thanks for the information. I've had very little formal training, so I was never taught the technique of layering. I'll have to experiment with it.

Irv

[somsokorkim]

@shipskeel:

Its good to know that you are into the Works of Rembrandt! hehe

What you r talking about? Of course this is a Selfportrait! In his own techniqe!

If its not your kind of taste go to the expressionists!

[Shipskeel]

You did not paint a self-portrait. You copied a photograph and the result has no life in it.

"exactly".. you give yourself away. "painting by numbers" you give it away again. Sargent would not have painted like this, nor Rembrandt.

[irudley]

Sorry I'm no Sargent, or Rembrandt. I don't think most of the people who watch this site are either. What I'm showing is a system that works for me. If it helps others to do paintings that are better than they could do otherwise, then it has merit. I never said I was a great artist.

[rachandonaraden]

p brain..let's yours..

[nickbalazs]

thanks Irv very insightful, one question though do you use and type of dead under layer , and what is your stance on burnt umber?

[irudley]

Thanks for your comment.

I don't know what you mean by "Dead Under Layer". Before starting I usually use a warm gray Gesso coating on the canvas so I can judge the values of my first colors better. Once the canvas is covered with the actual painting, it doesn't matter any more.

I use Burnt Umber a lot in my backgrounds and some of the dark warm shadow areas. If there are a lot of cool colors in the subject, the warm background makes them seem stronger.

Paint every day, if possible.