Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
Big Shape 2
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Big Shape 2
Overview
“We continue to work on the main structure of our portrait. It is very important to have this part well established so that everything we do later works well.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: Big Shape 2, 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
“Big Shape As I've said before, now this is my absolute truth. And if I need to make some changes on the outside, I will be making them based on this. I need to be 100% sure that this area looks right. What I'm going to do is start using a little white to mark some structural points, like this part of the bone. And in this diagram, you can see how I'm connecting these highlights to the planes and the structure of the skeleton. These whites aren't whites to me. They're just structural vertex points. What I want to do is keep it quite simple, while making it work so you can see with just a few...”
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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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