Watercolor Portrait from a Photo
Making the sketch
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolorist and muralist
About the video: Making the sketch
Overview
“In this lesson, we will transfer the portrait to paper. For that, I will teach you two different methods. If you are already more experienced or experienced in drawing, you can do it freehand.”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: Making the sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Portrait from a Photo. Learn the techniques to create intimate and suggestive portraits using water, color, and paintbrushes.
Partial transcription of the video
“Making the Sketch For this lesson, you'll be learning how to get that picture on your paper. You don't need to be good at drawing. First off, we'll be working with a grid and then we'll trace it. But if you like drawing and you want to sketch it yourself, you can just do it. Let's get that grid done. Here's my reference picture. I had it printed so I could get a better resolution. I had it laser-printed on 300 coated paper. That way, I'd get a better quality that'll let us analyze it and use it as a guide. You can just print it at home too. But you do need to be careful to print it using th...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Portrait from a Photo
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Category
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Areas
Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Sol Barrios
A course by Sol Barrios
Self-taught artist Sol Barrios has been painting portraits for around 6 years, giving classes, and taking the streets with paste-up murals. She started out as an art director for a cultural magazine, and little by little, she began specializing in the world of graphic arts to later flow into the world of painting through watercolor.
In her work, the contrast between dark and light colors is key, looking to put her faces in the forefront of her art, and define the unique characteristics of each human being.
She works for private art collections, has participated in many exhibitions in Chile such as FAxxi and ArtStgo, her murals can be found in the streets of Santiago, as well as in restaurants, studios, and homes.
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