Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
The photo and the portrait approach
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: The photo and the portrait approach
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain what my criteria are for choosing photography, both in terms of subject matter and composition and the quality of the image itself.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: The photo and the portrait approach, 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 Photo and How to Approach the Portrait This lesson, we're going to talk about how I took the photograph and how I chose the model. In this case, we could choose between different types of lighting. To begin with, having a single source of light is a good thing, because it gives us more contrasting shadows. I plan to have a clear separation between light and shadow and then I'll work on the halftones. Hypothetically, if we had more than one light source, what would happen is that the whole image would look a little flatter. We'd have to focus more on our halftones. That'd be an advanced ...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
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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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