I received a record amount of feedback on my last attempt to paint water on skin. Thank you all! The biggest mistake I made was I was trying to paint water on a waxed surface like a car on skin.
I learned a long time ago light reacts with skin very different than hard surfaces. Only makes sense water would do the same. And several of you pointed that out. It also explains why I couldn’t find any famous artists who painted what I was looking for. Because skin isn’t car!
Oops.
How did I do this time?
Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mqpccs4yis2q
Edit: There is supposed to be a small waterfall off screen to her left. The actual model was in the shower as a wet skin reference. I didn’t want to paint someone in the shower. And people in waterfall scenes mostly focus on the waterfall! So I adapted this one.
I’ll give you another angle of feedback in that context will always help, I.e. in this case she looks like she is very recently drenched, like under a lot of water now or emerging from it, but can’t see a source of that and she looks to be on land. If she was emerging from the water or standing under a shower it becomes more obvious.
All good points. I tried to hint at an off screen waterfall that didn’t convey very well. Others have mentioned that this much water would probably come from getting out of a body of water or a shower…
Next time 😁