My bae's coffee painting of me 😍😍😍

She usually make me as her reference in her drawings and recently she saw a coffee painting at her school and wanting to make one so she tried to paint me without knowing any techniques and by the way she haven't tried painting before so she didn't make any sketch and she only use one light shaded of coffee so this what happened of her first trial. 😂

As what she said my pose was uneasy to sketch and also because of her excitement to paint she failed to sketch it correctly but now she had realized that in painting it should have contrast just like in sketching so she made three shades of coffee: Light, Medium, Dark. So this what happened of her second trial 😂 it doesn't look like me. It was exactly a monkey version of me. 😂

After all of her trial and error she realized her mistakes and make improvements and this is how she did it.

Materials used:
✅ Sheet of sketch pad
✅ Scotch tape
✅ Mechanical pencil
✅ Eraser
✅ Nescafé (any kind of coffee will do)
✅ Water
✅ 4 cup(pallet if you have)
✅ Big and small brush
✅ toothpick
✅ Tissue

Procedure:
1st step: Tear slowly or cut one sheet of sketch pad (must have labeled of acid free or can be use for painting).

2nd step: Attached properly the sheet on your drawing desk with scotch tape on each sides to avoid crumpled on sheet when painting.

3rd step: Make a sketch with very light strokes if possible. Make it slowly but surely.

4th step: Prepare 3 cups and water
•Light- less coffee more water
•Medium- more coffee lesser water
•Dark- a lot of coffee less water

5th step: Mix it well with toothpick or you can use your brush.

6th step: Put water on another cup.

7th step: Try each shades of coffee on a clean sheet, each shades should not be pale.

8th step: Identify first which part has a light shaded portion then paint it with Light mixture.

9th step: Let it dry first. When it's already dry then apply medium mixture.

10th step: Let it dry then paint dark mixture on hair, eyes or darkest area.

Tips:
• Use tissue for blending.
• Try using toothpick, it can create amazing lines.
• Mistakes during painting is difficult to undo or eliminate. Just be careful.
• You can repeat the dark shaded part with dark mixture to be more attractive.