How to Get a Likeness in Portrait Painting

#evolveartist #portraitlikeness #portraitpainting #oilpainting How to Get a Likeness in Portrait Painting Master portraitist Kevin Murphy explains what really matters in order to get a likeness for painting portraits and make it look like the person you are painting. Want to level up your painting skills? Check out these resources: 🎨 FREE MINI COURSE | How to Create Depth & Volume in Your Art 🖼 https://bit.ly/create-depth-and-volume 🎨 FREE MASTERCLASS | Become a Pro Artist 🧑‍🎨 https://bit.ly/evolve-artist-pro-masterclass 🎨 JOIN EVOLVE | Join the Evolve Artist Program 🖌 https://bit.ly/join-the-evolve-artist-school 🎨 NEW COURSE | Make Your First $1k in Art 💰 https://bit.ly/evolve-artist-sell-your-art 🎨 FREE MINI COURSE | Oil Painting for Beginners 🌄 https://bit.ly/evolve-artist-painting-for-beginners 🎨 FREE MINI COURSE | Pro Art Skills Roadmap 🚗 https://bit.ly/roadmap-to-pro-art-skills 🎨 WEBSITE | What is Evolve? 🌎 https://bit.ly/what-is-evolve-artist Chapters: 0:00 Viewing shadow & light as abstracts 0:10 Process for getting a likeness 1:20 Using a big brush to get likeness 1:54 Finding overarching shapes for likeness 2:40 What parts of the head structure are the most important? 3:19 How much shadow vs light 4:12 What really matters in getting likeness 4:24 Getting past the "ugly" phase 5:34 Taking the time to get it right