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Unlike
other living crestures, in Chinese painting the human figure is almost always
depicted in the outlining method. People are painted with a clean, fine
outline, and the colour is carefully blended in afterwards.
Traditional paintings of people seldom show any shading on the face, though
there is usually some on the clothing. You can blend shadows into robes
and even on to faced and hands, but if you want to achieve texture and liveliness
remember to vary the pressure of your brush.
There is no reason why you should not break with tradition and depict people
in the impressionistic or freestyle way. Here too there will be no shadows,
but a sense of life can be conveyed with expressive brush strokes; colour
is added ad a very light wash.
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