Realistic Portraits Using Charcoal
Completion of portrait 4
A course by Xavier Denia Valls , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Completion of portrait 4
Overview
“We finish our portrait. In addition, I will give you a series of tips and ideas to keep in mind after finishing it.”
In this video lesson Xavier Denia Valls addresses the topic: Completion of portrait 4, 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
“Finishing your Portrait As you can see, we're practically done. What I don't want to do is sacrifice eye to explain this. So I want to be very subtle. It's better adding too little than adding too much. A little more structure for the eye. I'm intensifying a little the dark areas in the eye. I know in the eye, there's more contrast at the bottom, less so at the top. I want to include this, so I'm omitting this line at the very top. I'll include it at the beginning to make everything more atmospheric around here. And I'll draw the outline inside of what I already have, since I don't want my ...”
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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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