Why I Love Q4 – Last Push for 2018-2019 | Liron Yanconsky’s Podcast – Episode 50

Hi there, Liron here and today I want to talk to you about why I love Q4 of the year!

Hard Work

To make a long story short – I see Q4 as an opportunity to work even harder than I worked for the entire year.

I like to start strong, then take it a little easier around July, and then pick up the pace again and go faster.

The main word I want to use for Q4 is MORE. I like to use this opportunity to JUST DO MORE. More videos, more posts, more ads, more articles.

By doing that, I know I’m setting myself up to win at the start of next year.

Conclude 2018 & Plan 2019

This is also a good time to reflect on the successes of the year (so many wins in 2018!). It’s important to recognize these.

Then, it’s time to plan how to win next year.

My Goals: Recap

I have two main MACRO goals. These are probably things I will never fully attain, but will always feel.

1. I want to become one of the best watercolor painters and teachers in the world.

2. I want to inspire as many people as possible to create with complete passion and courage.

And that’s pretty much it for this one. Now let’s move on to the artist corner!

Artist Corner

Today I’m featuring Russ the rapper.

In the past I told you how I want to feature not only visual artists, but also musicians, actors, writers and so on. So now’s the time.

Russ’s favorite theme is of him doing it himself. No one signed him, no one put him on, and he built his own career with his two hands.

I can really relate to that. When you are just getting started – all you get is no’s. And it’s up to you to push through and hopefully stick it to the nay-sayers’ faces (;

Here’s my favorite song of his: Me You

And here’s where you can find me

Check out my YouTube Channel – Liron Yanconsky

Or ask me questions on Instagram – @LironYanIL or Snapchat – @LironYan3

I hope you enjoyed this one. Take care, and we’ll talk again really soon,

– Liron

Tutorial | Watercolor Portrait Painting in 3 Colors – Tai Lopez

Hi there! Today I want to share with you a written version of my video of painting a portrait of Tai Lopez.

To check out the full video tutorial on YouTube, click here:
Portrait Painting in 3 Colors | Tai Lopez

I did this portrait using a limited palette of three colors only:

  1. Phthalo Blue
  2. Quinacridone Rose
  3. New Gamboge

Final result

As mentioned, you can check out the full video tutorial on YouTube:
Portrait Painting in 3 Colors | Tai Lopez

If you want this in written format, go on ahead 🙂

Portrait Painting in 3 Colors | Tai Lopez

First wash

So I start off with a very detail drawing showing all of the changes in values.
I desaturated and posterised the reference image to make it easier to see the value shifts.

I make sure to mix a very large quantity of paint for the hair, as it takes up a lot of space and I sometimes run out of paint easily

The next step is starting the wash.

Now, I got lucky and his glasses are super dark.
This allows me to use them as a “checkpoint” or a break for the wash.
It makes life easier, because I can have better control of the different sections.

You don’t have to do it this way.
You can simply pull the wash over everything (avoiding the highlights of course).

However I chose to do so in the spur of the moment.
Next up I continue to pull the wash down.

At this stage I’m done with the initial wash.
Notice how I strongly contrasted his shirt with the skin tone.
This was important for me, for creating an interesting color harmony / composition.

Second wash

At this stage I’m concerned with two things:
1. Edges – getting a variety of rough and soft / blended edges.
(you can notice that especially on the forehead).
2. Preserving the “second tier” of highlights.

Here I’m pulling the wash down to the very bottom.

Third wash

And now I’m moving on to the 3rd wash.
The reason I’m going through so many, is that I wasn’t able to get the impression I wanted right away.

Sometimes I’m able to nail most of the value variation in the first and second washes, but this time was more challenging for some reason.

Now you can see how and why I used the glasses as a pausing point for the first wash.
They are so much darker then the rest of the face, that the break in the wash won’t be visible.

The disadvantage to this is that I have to go over them several times, as they are painted over the white paper (and it’s hard getting such darkness with one layer).

Fourth & fifth washes

Here I finally added the eyes – which also have quite a dark value.

And now I’m adding the mid values (I didn’t go dark enough in the first 3 washes, as mentioned earlier).

Final result

And finally I’m just going over some dark areas, and we are done!

I hope this was helpful!
If you are interested in the full video tutorial, be sure to check it out here:
Portrait Painting in 3 Colors | Tai Lopez

Let me know if this is helpful.
I tried really generalising the stages so it won’t turn into a 30+ stages tutorial haha.

All the best!
– Liron