Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
Dark and shadows
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Dark and shadows
Overview
“At this point we have a fairly advanced drawing. Now is the time to set the darkest and blackest black to work with our full range of values.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: Dark and shadows, 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
“Darks and Shadows In this lesson, we're going to start working on the darks and shadows. We're going to try to set the background and smudge the whole drawing, and we're going to add our blackest blacks to discover final range of values with which we're going to work. That'll be important. And we're going to start using different charcoals to do what we mentioned at the beginning about calligraphy and variation because I'm going to want the area of the face to be more in focus, to be more restructured, and that, as we move away, we can mark more expressive and calligraphic notes in order to...”
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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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