Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
Nose
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Nose
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to try to study the construction of the nose. I will show you what are the different planes to consider and how the different sub-shapes of the nose are connected through diagrams. I will do a demonstration to find the constructive points in examples of photography and drawing. Finally, I will explain how to draw and explain the different shapes and their planes through highlights, midtones, shadows, and transitions. ”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: Nose, 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 Nose In this lesson, we'll talk about the most basic structure of the nose and how to find its most complex forms. My basic conception of the nose, without looking at the model, is that it's a three-dimensional shape that looks relatively like this. This is the frontal plane. Here's the lateral plane. And, behind it, we find the other plane. For our next step, we could cut this from here and here. These would represent our nostrils which curve back in. So for our next step, when I'm doing a pretty simple and generic nose, what I can do straight away is try to find this form, to define i...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
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Category
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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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