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The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art

Faces and emotions

A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator

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About the video: Faces and emotions

Overview

“In this lesson you will learn how you can use different levels of detail when drawing faces, catching different levels of emotions to them.”

In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Faces and emotions, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art. Use your sketchbook to find your own drawing style and share it with others.

Partial transcription of the video

“FACES AND EMOTIONS In this lesson we will continue making characters with emotions and I'm going to use the character I developed for myself, it's kind of a self-portrait. Over time I simplified it a lot, it used to be very complicated but I just kind of boiled it down to be very simple. I borrowed some of the parts in my self-portrait from other artists, so I always use a lock that I borrowed from Tintin. So that's always with me, and then there's the glasses. And I'm lucky not to have hair because it's really complicated to draw, so I just add some extra points for the hair I have left. W...”

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Course summary for: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (5713)
192355 students
5 units
16 lessons (2h 31m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Mattias Adolfsson

A course by Mattias Adolfsson

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Illustrator

Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.

His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.

Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.