Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
Forehead
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Forehead
Overview
“This lesson will be based on the forehead, as you will be able to connect it to what we have already studied. The forehead has defined but subtle shapes and planes, and it is essential to know that they exist in order to draw them. The first example will be through some diagrams that allow us to become aware of those planes of the forehead, then we will go on to look for those planes in our reference. ”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: Forehead, 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 Forehead In this lesson, we'll focus on the basic structure of the forehead. When tackling the forehead, I find it really helpful to understand the general egg. I'll find the centerline. Everything I've done before, I'd try to always connect it to this centerline. So it's really important to place it where it belongs from the start. When it comes to the forehead, we have to keep in mind the eye sockets. That's the origin for this area here. More or less like this. What we're looking for to begin with is the basic plane of the temporal bone, which would be around here. From this point, w...”
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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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