Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
The eye
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: The eye
Overview
“In this lesson I will begin by giving examples of the construction of the eye and of how the forms that constitute it are connected together through diagrams. Then, I will teach how to look for this construction and, in turn, analyze abstract spaces in examples of photographs. Finally, I will explain how to interpret this feature at a more finished drawing level. When describing the eye, we will start with the structure of the eye socket and continue to look for the eye itself that exists within that structure. You must ensure that the two eyes are connected at all times. And this is one of the most common mistakes; have the two eyes well drawn, but not working with the drawing, and this is a problem of the general connection between them.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: The eye, 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
“The Eye Now, we're going to analyze each of the parts of the face. In this lesson, we're going to focus on the eye. For starters, we'll start by trying to draw in shadow plane that the image produces. Though we'll talk about the eye, it's much more important to place the eye socket and surrounding bone structure rather than the eye itself. Sargent used to say when you're drawing an eye, it's more important to start working on this eye socket and that when you add the eye, it's like you're cracking an egg. We rack it in a bowl, and it falls right at the center. So preparing everything around...”
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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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