a thumbnail image linking to Mark's painting of Emily

Painting Portraits by Mark Carder covers everything specific to painting portraits from photographs, including:

  • equipment you will need
  • how to photograph the subject
  • processing and printing
  • penciling a perfect likeness
  • mixing face, lip, eye, and hair color
  • maintaining a likeness while painting

Painting Portraits does not cover the basics of color mixing and drawing covered in The Carder Method DVDs.

The set is four DVDs containing over nine hours of material. Please note that more than half of the material has no commentary, just close-up video of Mark Carder painting a face.

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