Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
What will we do in the course?
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to give you a summary of what we will do in this course; I'm going to teach you how to draw a realistic portrait with charcoal and mixed technique from photography.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal. Discover the step-by-step process and the materials to draw portraits that leap out of the paper.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Will We Do in the Course? In this lesson, I'll tell you more about what we'll do here. You'll get to know the world of portrait. I'll tell you some ideas about how to start and how to simplify it. We'll talk about the concept of the egg to understand basic shapes and how to understand it abstractly. I think it's very important to grasp the construction and the shape, and the concept of abstract impression of what we're seeing. I'll show you how I go about my portraits. We won't be creating an exact duplicate of our photo. We'll focus on some parts more than on others. This way, I'll te...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration
Xavier Denia Valls
A course by Xavier Denia Valls
Xavier Denia is an artist who has been studying and working with figurative art for more than fifteen years and has been teaching for over five years. He currently works for Barcelona Academy of Art in 2020, one of the largest drawing, painting, and sculpture schools in Europe.
He has participated in collective exhibitions in Italy, the UK, and Spain. In 2019, he was selected as a finalist in the Reina Sofía painting and sculpture competition, in Madrid. A large part of his work can be found in the galleries and rooms at the Barcelona Academy of Art.
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