Ancient portrait with mixed media

This portrait of the King Henry VIII was copied from the original picture with a pencil on a white sheet, then it was colored and completed with mixed media using acrylic paint, colored pencils, collage by magazine pages. It framed in a corrugated cardboard frame, colored with acrylic colours. 

draw your character with a pencil and color the face with colored pencils

paint the background with acrylic colors

paint other largest areas with acrylics

cut some similar colors from magazine’s pages

use collage from the most precious parts (gold, metal, jewelery...)

the armor is filled with iron-silver-grey textures

draw the frame on a corrugate cardboard

paint the frame with acrylic colors, mixing yellow and ocher

the frame is ready!

paste the drawing on a corrugate cardboard

here our ancient portrait!