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I’m 78 and have painted since about 10. I’ve had no professional training so I just loved this video, it has taught me so much. I hope to continue my painting until I take my last breath and will continue to watch your videos. Thank you so much.
I have never understood how to use acrylics until your video. I am an oil painter and had no idea that you could glaze and layer paint this way! Wow! You have so inspired me to want to try acrylics again! Thank you!
Fantastic thank you. Always wanted to know how to create realistic eyes and esp reflections that really make it stand out so vividly. Keep up the good work and i will be watching all your videos. Thanks again Tony Hill
I’m so sorry, I accidentally hit the thumbs down icon. Why would I or anyone in their right mind give you a thumbs downs when you do such brilliant work like this. Only the very best of high praises for you. Amazing 👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Your glazing technique using layers and the layers in the iris of the eyes! ❤ It all comes back around to patience and details. Thank you for your fabulous videos.
I heard of glazing but never realized that it makes acrylic look so good! I will definitely try it the next time I'm using acrylics! Thanks for all the great tips!
Always appreciate full real time tutorials. And Hey, could you please, provide the reference photo you used?. I find tutorials with reference photo very helpful because you don't just watch someone paint and try to replicate them, you also learn why they do what they do and you start to pick up ways to interpret the references and how to translate them into the painting. Which you can't do if there is no reference even though there's a lot of good tips already.
Hi I had to sit and watch all of this in one go I just couldn’t stop myself. The two main things for me were the glazing advice and the eye. Each time you added a detail I was entranced, and that reflection was amazing I have never seen that before 😮. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us 🥰
First time watching. My husband and I are retired and are going to watch a video a night just for the meditation value; when the Leafs aren't playing that is! Nice to find you🫠
I just found your painting tutorials. I’ve been painting for 30 years and no one has ever shown me how to do fur like you did .. it was absolutely amazing. I just love it and I love your kingfisher bird and all the videos I’ve watched thus far.
Wow, it amazes me how you put layer on layer and first I think that noone actually will see the underneath colour of it, but in the end it really makes the difference! ❤ how amazing someone will have this under the Christmas tree in a few weeks! I would totally freak out!!! 😮😅😊
Wow, the way you make the eye come to life, is amazing. I will definitely be using those glazing techniques. hopefully I can get somewhere near your level. amazing watching the painting come to life. all the best, and thanks for the lesson.
I just discovered your channel after painting for 51 yrs. I cannot believe the 'ah ha' moment I had with this Tiger's eye. The layering and glazing... the effect was outstanding!!! I cannot wait to try it! You are awesome and a GREAT instructor.
The tip I found most interesting is the way that you put in the layers upon layers in the eye build up and the stands of stray hairs at the end never thought of doing those. Thank you for showing these tips
Glazing!!! It’s incredible watching the painting be built up layer by layer, and then glazed to reach the right color and and shift the value little amounts at a time. Thank you for sharing! I also really appreciate you naming each color as you mix them.
I enjoyed the glazing techniques you used in this video. Thank you for sharing all the techniques in real time. Super helpful! What an impressive talent you have.
Fantastic! The best tip for me was you saying it will get worse before it gets better. It has inspired me to try painting again and to not give up so readily. Excellent tutorial.
The tip I found most useful is about the highlights in the eye and how it's not just blobs but actually captures the surroundings such as the trees and the sky
absolutely fascinating - thank you so much - Im a student and mid -tiger oil painting... your instructions for the hair and eye will be so useful as I render the final stages.
I love your video's, easy to follow especially for a beginner such as myself. The most helpful tip ? Well all of them but I must say it is wonderful how you take your time and go into detail and allow us to stop and understand. So much to learn !!!!
Incredible talent!! The tip I found most useful is the layering. So many, many colors to ultimately reach the realistic orange and white of a tiger. Fantastic job! ❤
A captivating image and a beautiful result. Acknowledging that there are awkward stages when developing an image, and just to watch this video as you just keep going past that stage is the most instructive tip for me. Thank you for sharing your experience and the working process in real time.
I love all the attention to the little details that bring a nice sense of realism to the painting. Thanks for the sharing your techniques, very inspirational.
Great video! The tip that helped me the most was the use of a variety of brushes to get the desired effect. Same fur, but different brushes to give the impression of realism. Fantastic!
Lovely as usuele, We all learn so much from you, and in real time, this is so much fun, missing sleep and have early shift but it is just so fun to watch, satisfying. 🥰
Absolutely amazing ! I have collected plenty of tigers photos to start animal painting but never could do. I am 77 and too late to start acrylic painting. However , I enjoy watching your work.
I've watched this video several times now and I have to say that the most impactful thing for me has been the tip you gave on reflections in the eyes. Such a little thing but makes a huge difference. Thank you so much for sharing your work with us!
You gave lots of great tips here, but the final random strokes in very light and very dark colors is one I will add to all my future wildlife paintings.
what an amazing piece!! really helpful on how to paint the fur and adding the glazing over the lighter color. I am going to be waiting to see if I win this wonderfu piece of art!
A w e s o m e talent. Thanks for sharing. I've only been painting a short time and I learned so much by watching pros such as yourself. I am especially impressed by your use of subtle color transition. You made all those tiny hairs look so real.
Also the tip I found most helpful was “it’s going to get worse before it gets better.” And also that you don’t have to be strict about working dark to light all the time and that glazing can change everything.
Not fully done watching yet, but just finished watching you doing the details in the eye and I am blown away!! Also, now confident that I can achieve this as well and am grateful for discovering glazing (through your channel and others who also paint wildlife). Glazing has been such a game changer for me and I feel so much more confident that I can always go back and 'fix' things.
The colour depth of the eye and the precise reflections are my favourite, I've never known about glazing in painting, but I'm going to start doing it..😊
The tip I appreciated the most pertained to the eye itself - the note to add slightly lighter-colored, wispy marks radiating out from the pupil, then slightly darker-colored marks radiating out from the lighter layer, surrounded by the lightest-colored lines radiating out into the bottom of the eye. Most of the color changes are quite subtle but the contrast and depth really pull the viewer straight to the pupil, even that part of the eye is in shadow! I used to really struggle with big cat eyes in the past, so this sincerely helps. I absolutely love this piece, thank you so much for sharing this tutorial! ❤
Just started this art journey need to destress, but nothing special just a spooky the cat and now finishing of mr moon. I never knew there was so many rinse and repeats (layers) to painting beautiful animal art, especially fur; now I have a better understanding why, and a deeper appreciation of patience. Thanks Daniel for the hard work you do as an artist, and your YT channel 😊
Thankyou for sharing this video. As a pastel artist I have been looking for an acrylic colour mixing step by step such as this for ages. I loved seeing you use your finger to blend once or twice. It's a bad pastel habit I have. The most important tip I've learnt from this was the glazing process to build the layers. Looks like I need to find more hours in my day to watch all your videos :)
Happy subscriber. The tip I found most valuable was the glazing technique. Multiple layers while letting dry between. Would love to win this painting. Thanks!
I’ve only just found you kind sir and I think I can honestly say that I’ve never learnt sooo much from one tutorial, thank you very kindly for sharing your time and expertise in such an in-depth and user friendly manner, many,many thanks 🙏🏻
my first time watching you. and im watching this again and going to try and paint along, while pausing and playing. i appreciate the time you took to share these useful tips and to see exactly what you are doing so i can learn. im hopeful . have a blessed day
I don’t think it’s something you mentioned in the video (even though there were so many good tips) but I didn’t realise how much paint is actually on your brush when you’re painting. When I paint I usually have very watered down paint and less paint on the brush and it’s always a problem with layering because I will paint something that looks light and then it will disappear after it drys and it ruins the effect of depth. Can’t tell you how much your guys videos have improved my own work, thank you so much!
Fantastic work as usual Daniel, thank you so much for sharing your process. I found your emphasis on adding randomness to the paint strokes to be a great reminder not to lose focus on achieving a natural looking line. Especially while getting bogged down with the repetitive, almost mechanical, process of laying so down many strokes! Being relatively new to acrylics I was also amazed at the effectiveness of placing the initial fur strokes in white and then colour glazing/washing them! WOW… so darn effective! Far too many people out there still suggest that acrylics are no good for glazing. Thank you once again.
All the little detail in the eye as well as the way the glazing adds that extra touch of detail in the shadows and highlights was extremely helpful to see. Thank you so much for showing us this! I'm inspired!
I've always drawn pictures with pencils and ink. I tried painting a few times and been very discouraged by it. Watching your process makes me feel encouraged to try again. Thank you.
Layering is a big problem for me, I never knew how to do it properly, so thank you so much for showing me! I hope this will make a world of difference for my paintings!
If you'd like to learn more about my art process and see loads of full time tutorials in oils, acrylic , charcoal and pastel then consider joining my Patreon community www.patreon.com/StudioWildlife .Don't forget to subscribe, like the video and comment the most helpful tip before 1st Dec 2023 for a chance to win this painting as a present this year.
Hi friend. If I may ask on a personal note. Just for interest sake. How long would it normally take you to complete a painting like this?
And how do you gaze
WAU ! you make me start painting again! can you write which (mark)quality acryllic colors do you use? thx!
Sir i need all these brushes.
How can i buy.?
I’m 78 and have painted since about 10. I’ve had no professional training so I just loved this video, it has taught me so much. I hope to continue my painting until I take my last breath and will continue to watch your videos. Thank you so much.
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The same here!!!
Don't really have training for Art it's just how your skill is and how u progress over time.
Layers, layers, layers, that's what I learned from this video. Thank you!
I have never understood how to use acrylics until your video. I am an oil painter and had no idea that you could glaze and layer paint this way! Wow! You have so inspired me to want to try acrylics again! Thank you!
The best RUclips channel to learn the tricks of paint wild animals 👏🏻
Fantastic thank you. Always wanted to know how to create realistic eyes and esp reflections that really make it stand out so vividly. Keep up the good work and i will be watching all your videos.
Thanks again
Tony Hill
I’m so sorry, I accidentally hit the thumbs down icon. Why would I or anyone in their right mind give you a thumbs downs when you do such brilliant work like this. Only the very best of high praises for you. Amazing 👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Loll you know that you can tap the dislike button again and it will go away right
😅😅
How dare you
@@McKurdi I did do that and Maude the corrections 😢
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Your glazing technique using layers and the layers in the iris of the eyes! ❤ It all comes back around to patience and details. Thank you for your fabulous videos.
Most helpful video for beginners
The glazing process is a super tip 👍
That’s amazing tiger’s eye 👍🏻🐯
Love it.. I found the glazing technique specifically helpful..thank you.
Amazing work the eye brings the painting to life
Hello , thanks for this excellent painting vidéo see you later my friend
The way you described it is wonderful. ❤ I will try and see if I can paint like this or not 😅
You got it!! 👍
I heard of glazing but never realized that it makes acrylic look so good! I will definitely try it the next time I'm using acrylics! Thanks for all the great tips!
Always appreciate full real time tutorials. And Hey, could you please, provide the reference photo you used?. I find tutorials with reference photo very helpful because you don't just watch someone paint and try to replicate them, you also learn why they do what they do and you start to pick up ways to interpret the references and how to translate them into the painting. Which you can't do if there is no reference even though there's a lot of good tips already.
Glazing was the tip that stood out to me. I’m starting to wrap my head around that. Thanks so much!
I will definitely pick up my acrylics paints again after seeing this tutorial. This got me inspired again. Thank you!
Such a beautiful tiger!!!!❤❤❤❤
Hi I had to sit and watch all of this in one go I just couldn’t stop myself. The two main things for me were the glazing advice and the eye. Each time you added a detail I was entranced, and that reflection was amazing I have never seen that before 😮. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us 🥰
I like the transparency using layers in the eyes.
I just love how u did the fur,very impressive 😊
Many thanks for explaining about glazes. The final addition of the long loose hairs was very insightful.
Love the detail in the eye
First time watching. My husband and I are retired and are going to watch a video a night just for the meditation value; when the Leafs aren't playing that is! Nice to find you🫠
I just found your painting tutorials. I’ve been painting for 30 years and no one has ever shown me how to do fur like you did .. it was absolutely amazing. I just love it and I love your kingfisher bird and all the videos I’ve watched thus far.
Same here,, because RUclips I know how to draw realistic animal and many others,,, but that'all seems to late for me,, my age was 45 new😢
Such a beautiful piece! The most helpful tips were the glazing and shadowing of the eye !!!
You are truly THE artist ❤️
Wow, it amazes me how you put layer on layer and first I think that noone actually will see the underneath colour of it, but in the end it really makes the difference! ❤ how amazing someone will have this under the Christmas tree in a few weeks! I would totally freak out!!! 😮😅😊
Wow, the way you make the eye come to life, is amazing. I will definitely be using those glazing techniques. hopefully I can get somewhere near your level. amazing watching the painting come to life. all the best, and thanks for the lesson.
The most helpful idea I got out of this amazing video was the layering technique. Love your work!
Wow! Great video. Thank you. The amount of layers you put in the eye was surprising and most helpful!
it's perfect thank you.
Thank you so much. The glazing was sooo helpful. Especially the eyes. Greatings from Cape Town friend.
I'm very impressed with this video and painting tutorial step-by-step video.
This is awesome ❣️🎨🌞
I just discovered your channel after painting for 51 yrs. I cannot believe the 'ah ha' moment I had with this Tiger's eye. The layering and glazing... the effect was outstanding!!! I cannot wait to try it! You are awesome and a GREAT instructor.
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re so AMAZING!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The tip I found most interesting is the way that you put in the layers upon layers in the eye build up and the stands of stray hairs at the end never thought of doing those. Thank you for showing these tips
Glazing!!! It’s incredible watching the painting be built up layer by layer, and then glazed to reach the right color and and shift the value little amounts at a time. Thank you for sharing! I also really appreciate you naming each color as you mix them.
I enjoyed the glazing techniques you used in this video. Thank you for sharing all the techniques in real time. Super helpful! What an impressive talent you have.
I love watching the glazing layers and enjoyed seeing your mixing process. Vibrant animal eyes are just the best!
Fantastic! The best tip for me was you saying it will get worse before it gets better.
It has inspired me to try painting again and to not give up so readily. Excellent tutorial.
The tip I found most useful was the depth of glazing over the lighter colour 😊 thank you
The tip I found most useful is about the highlights in the eye and how it's not just blobs but actually captures the surroundings such as the trees and the sky
I thought the layering of the fur was the most useful. Great painting.
Loved the blue as underpainting for white. Thank you for the eye coloring technique
Carol w
absolutely fascinating - thank you so much - Im a student and mid -tiger oil painting... your instructions for the hair and eye will be so useful as I render the final stages.
The tip I found most useful was including the eyelashes into the catch light to improve realism. Going to include in my next animal painting!
I love your video's, easy to follow especially for a beginner such as myself. The most helpful tip ? Well all of them but I must say it is wonderful how you take your time and go into detail and allow us to stop and understand. So much to learn !!!!
Incredible talent!! The tip I found most useful is the layering. So many, many colors to ultimately reach the realistic orange and white of a tiger. Fantastic job! ❤
Beautiful, I love how there is a picture within a picture with the tigers eye. It's so generous of you to share so much about your process and method.
A captivating image and a beautiful result. Acknowledging that there are awkward stages when developing an image, and just to watch this video as you just keep going past that stage is the most instructive tip for me. Thank you for sharing your experience and the working process in real time.
This is a fantastic tutorial. The camera work was great too. I learned so much from this. You inspire me to lift my game. Thank you.
Love this tutorial! my favourite tip is painting the fur with a light cream then glazing more accurate and rich colours on top!
This process was simply AMAZING to watch. I am new and painting my Yorkie, and these techniques will help me greatly. Thank you. ❤
I love all the attention to the little details that bring a nice sense of realism to the painting. Thanks for the sharing your techniques, very inspirational.
Great painting, I wish more videos were taken when mixing colors on the detailing part. I'll be referencing your video for my visual arts class.
I love this one. The multiple layers and glazing are such good advice. Lots of patients, but what a masterpiece.
Love the glazing, you just opened up a new world for me!!! ❤
Great video! The tip that helped me the most was the use of a variety of brushes to get the desired effect. Same fur, but different brushes to give the impression of realism. Fantastic!
Lovely as usuele, We all learn so much from you, and in real time, this is so much fun, missing sleep and have early shift but it is just so fun to watch, satisfying. 🥰
Absolutely amazing ! I have collected plenty of tigers photos to start animal painting but never could do. I am 77 and too late to start acrylic painting. However , I enjoy watching your work.
I've watched this video several times now and I have to say that the most impactful thing for me has been the tip you gave on reflections in the eyes. Such a little thing but makes a huge difference. Thank you so much for sharing your work with us!
You gave lots of great tips here, but the final random strokes in very light and very dark colors is one I will add to all my future wildlife paintings.
Have to try do this eye and see how close I can get an real artist ;) the beginning is always helpful!
what an amazing piece!! really helpful on how to paint the fur and adding the glazing over the lighter color. I am going to be waiting to see if I win this wonderfu piece of art!
Amazing. Makes me want to try painting
A w e s o m e talent. Thanks for sharing. I've only been painting a short time and I learned so much by watching pros such as yourself. I am especially impressed by your use of subtle color transition. You made all those tiny hairs look so real.
It’s hard to choose between the eye details and the glazing, both of which have inspired me to have a go. Thank you for the inspiration.
Great lesson, thank you!
Also the tip I found most helpful was “it’s going to get worse before it gets better.” And also that you don’t have to be strict about working dark to light all the time and that glazing can change everything.
Glad you liked it! And Thank you!
Glassy eye glazes for more alive paints! That is epic and I'm going to try it! 🎉
the tiip I found most useful was glazing, i always stuggled with how to do it but your explaination was great and easy to follow.
The details in those eye reflections are fantastic!
Not fully done watching yet, but just finished watching you doing the details in the eye and I am blown away!! Also, now confident that I can achieve this as well and am grateful for discovering glazing (through your channel and others who also paint wildlife). Glazing has been such a game changer for me and I feel so much more confident that I can always go back and 'fix' things.
Amazing work, the tips that I thought were really useful were about glazing. I'm pretty new to acrylic painting and this was a great help. Thank you.
The colour depth of the eye and the precise reflections are my favourite, I've never known about glazing in painting, but I'm going to start doing it..😊
Just loved every bit of this. Fabulous 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I just watched your tutorial. Wow!!! I have been painting with watercolors for years but now I want to try acrylics. You are a great artist.
This is the first time I’ve watched your video.
It was amazing and makes me want to give it a try !!!
Thank you for sharing your talent !!!
fantastic! to be honest the whole video was helpful . well worth watching :) but the way you showed how to do the eye ball itself was great tips
Agree 100%
The tip I appreciated the most pertained to the eye itself - the note to add slightly lighter-colored, wispy marks radiating out from the pupil, then slightly darker-colored marks radiating out from the lighter layer, surrounded by the lightest-colored lines radiating out into the bottom of the eye. Most of the color changes are quite subtle but the contrast and depth really pull the viewer straight to the pupil, even that part of the eye is in shadow! I used to really struggle with big cat eyes in the past, so this sincerely helps. I absolutely love this piece, thank you so much for sharing this tutorial! ❤
Loved this progression. Thanks for sharing that piece!
Just started this art journey need to destress, but nothing special just a spooky the cat and now finishing of mr moon.
I never knew there was so many rinse and repeats (layers) to painting beautiful animal art, especially fur; now I have a better understanding why, and a deeper appreciation of patience.
Thanks Daniel for the hard work you do as an artist, and your YT channel 😊
Fantastic detail - the tip I'm going to take away and try in my next piece is the layering detail via glazing.
Thank you sir good painting❤
The tip I found most useful is the process of adding lighter color fur then glazing then repeat. The realism and depth it creates is so beautiful!
Thankyou for sharing this video. As a pastel artist I have been looking for an acrylic colour mixing step by step such as this for ages. I loved seeing you use your finger to blend once or twice. It's a bad pastel habit I have. The most important tip I've learnt from this was the glazing process to build the layers. Looks like I need to find more hours in my day to watch all your videos :)
the tip / process that i found useful was the layers in the eye and how you structured it. the painting is beautiful. subscribed
Happy subscriber. The tip I found most valuable was the glazing technique. Multiple layers while letting dry between. Would love to win this painting. Thanks!
I enjoyed you showing me how to glaze in real time! Thanks
I’ve only just found you kind sir and I think I can honestly say that I’ve never learnt sooo much from one tutorial, thank you very kindly for sharing your time and expertise in such an in-depth and user friendly manner, many,many thanks 🙏🏻
my first time watching you. and im watching this again and going to try and paint along, while pausing and playing. i appreciate the time you took to share these useful tips and to see exactly what you are doing so i can learn. im hopeful . have a blessed day
I don’t think it’s something you mentioned in the video (even though there were so many good tips) but I didn’t realise how much paint is actually on your brush when you’re painting.
When I paint I usually have very watered down paint and less paint on the brush and it’s always a problem with layering because I will paint something that looks light and then it will disappear after it drys and it ruins the effect of depth.
Can’t tell you how much your guys videos have improved my own work, thank you so much!
Fantastic work as usual Daniel, thank you so much for sharing your process. I found your emphasis on adding randomness to the paint strokes to be a great reminder not to lose focus on achieving a natural looking line. Especially while getting bogged down with the repetitive, almost mechanical, process of laying so down many strokes!
Being relatively new to acrylics I was also amazed at the effectiveness of placing the initial fur strokes in white and then colour glazing/washing them! WOW… so darn effective! Far too many people out there still suggest that acrylics are no good for glazing. Thank you once again.
All the little detail in the eye as well as the way the glazing adds that extra touch of detail in the shadows and highlights was extremely helpful to see. Thank you so much for showing us this! I'm inspired!
That was an amazing video about your process, I learned so much about glazing! I am going to try it in a current painting. Thank-you for doing this.
I've always drawn pictures with pencils and ink. I tried painting a few times and been very discouraged by it. Watching your process makes me feel encouraged to try again. Thank you.
Layering is a big problem for me, I never knew how to do it properly, so thank you so much for showing me! I hope this will make a world of difference for my paintings!