Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
Highlights and halftones 1
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Highlights and halftones 1
Overview
“After you have set the darks, it is important to set the highlights. In this way we can have a second marker that will indicate how far we can push the gaps.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: Highlights and halftones 1, 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
“Highlights and Halftones Now, we're going to start blocking in our midtones and highlights so we can start defining our shapes better. Before I begin, I'm going to explain how we can use the egg idea to see how I can organize all my values. My idea is that the head is an egg. I'll have my shadows here. When blocking in my lights, knowing the light comes from here and is spinning, I know that much of this area is going to have a bit of white. Now I can start blocking in the transition between light and shadow which creates the connecting bridge between one area and the other. The idea is lea...”
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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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