How to Do Face Painting: Cheetah / Leopard

Learn how to face paint a cheetah or a leopard in this face painting tutorial from Howcast. Expert: Emma Designs

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So, now we are going to learn how to do a very simple leopard or cheetah. We are just going to apply some white right above her eyebrow, like so. Can you turn your head for me? Thank you. Then, white for her muzzle. Then you are gong to apply a little white at the base on the cheekbone over here. And to make this look more like a leopard, we are going to add brown. One thing about this face is the brown you can interchange with any color. And again we are going to do the press down, drag up. And as with most cats and tigers, the press and drag for the whiskers. Now what makes a cheetah and a leopard is its spots and its infamous c-shaped spots. So we are just going to do some c's, we like to call them, and some dots. And to make these c's look a little more not like the alphabet we are going to use the same technique of the press and drag. Obviously on the white parts, it won't show as much. And we can add some white dots. But for most girls who want to get tigers, we just add little dots into where we dredge down to make teeth, her bottom lip to give it a little more definition. And that is how to do a leopard or cheetah.

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  • Emma Sadler

    Emma has been drawing and painting since birth. Within the past years she has found a passion for "live art" and found great joy in face painting plus balloon twisting. She attended college at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). When she is not at a gig she is usually practicing new faces/balloons, tweaking old ones or out having a coffee, updating the site and checking emails.