It is so important to mark these brights and get them as close to accurate as possible to save time later. I tell my students that portrait painting is the art of correcting, correcting correcting! Then I MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. Here you can see how I began with the transfer and then if your paint is still wet (many artists want this transfer to dry, I don’t) this is when you take a soft brush and also one with a good edge and then, using the same neutral paint as in the underpainting surface and the transfer, I now go over the entire portrait to soften all the shadows and refine any edges that need correction. Buff gently between each layer. To do this, I use a soft but firm fan brush to gently buff the surface to eliminate the brush marks. This is necessary to achieve the supple looking skin that characterizes my work. I am going to proceed to a new post to show you what I did today.