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Today we’ll talk about the importance of IMMERSION when painting, and I’ll demonstrate this specifically in the context of portrait painting.

Watercolor & Drawing – Divide & Conquer

One of my main goals for June 2020 is to create immersive work days, where I allow myself to be immersed in one specific artist endeavor.

So instead of squeezing in painting time every day, I’ll have ONE consolidated day, devoted 100% to watercolor painting (Sunday). This may sound a little crazy, but I believe there are significant benefits to immersion, over “cheaper” and shallower artistic experience, where I have to “cut” the session in order to work on something else.

This also doesn’t mean I CAN’T paint in other days. I can – for the purpose of content production for example (aka YouTube videos and so on).

I’ll also have a dedicated day to work on my manga (Wednesdays).

Today’s Portrait Painting Experience

Today I started applying this new approach, and spent a lot of time on just watercolor painting. I allowed the natural flow pull me in. I started with some basic exercises, and gradually went for more detailed portraits.

The peak for me was when I FELT the desire to go more detailed with this one portrait.

I made this “average” version first:

I really felt like I failed in capturing the beauty of the original portrait. And so I made another slower, more patient and more ambitions version.

Here’s this one:

Hopefully the difference between the two versions can be perceived immediately.

It’s not that the 2nd one is perfect, but it’s darn close to my CURRENT perfect, if that makes sense (:

Better Artistic Experience

Doing this felt GOOD and RIGHT. I’m so happy I got to experience that, and I hope to continue this way in future sessions.

I hope you enjoyed listening to / reading this one! And if this speaks to you – trying allowing yourself some more freedom when it comes to painting time, immersion and patience.

And always, here’s where you can find me online – let me know your thoughts! (:

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Hi there! Liron here. In this episode I want to talk to you about the products I’ve been working on during the month of February 2018.

Courses

I’m working on 3 new course I intend on publishing on the Udemy platform. This is where I currently make my courses available (together with my website).

I’m close to finishing 2 out of the three:

Portrait painting in watercolor
Landscapes in watercolor

Because I’m working on so many things simultaneously, this has been quite the challenge. I really have to work hard to be able to devote large chuncks of works to these products.

They involve recording, and then A LOT of editing work.

Book – How to Sketch People

I’m working on a book on how to sketch people in pen and pencil. This book is meant to be a “twin” product to my video course on sketching people.

This is a topic I’m trying to tackle from a rather unique angle, in my opinion. I try to provide students with a loose and fun method, that still preserves the accuracy and realism of the sketch.

I think this is an incredibly challenging topic that deters many from tackling. With this book, just like with the course, I wanted to turn it into a fun, light-hearted experience.

Increasing My Income

As an artist that is trying to build a business around their art, I have to be proactive. I always have to take care of my own income and earnings.

I have no boss, or salary. This is a huge challenge, but also a great freedom.

My goal with producing so many products is mainly helping as many people as possible, as well as MAKING MORE MONEY (:

I think this is also a uniqe value I bring to the table when it comes to helping other artists. I’m very business-oriented, and hope to inspire other artists to proudly create and charge money for their creation.

I want to use this opportunity to thank you. Yes – you! My listener, viewer, reader and follower.

Without you, all of this would have been impossible.

Artist Corner

In this episode I talked about no other than Paul Cézanne.

He doesn’t require too much introduction (;

Cezanne was a French post-impressionist painter, who is widely-known and highly-regarded.

Both Henry Matisse and Pablo Picasso have remarked that Paul Cezanne “is the father of us all”.

You can read more about him in his Wikipedia page.

Conclusion

And this is it for today’s episode. I hope you enjoyed it!

Here’s where to find me:

Here you can support me on Patreon

Check out my YouTube Channel – Liron Yanconsky

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

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Watercolor Portrait Painting & Importance of IMMERSION | Liron’s Podcast Episode 121