Figure Drawing: The Human Head
Skull textures
A course by ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez , Illustrator
About the video: Skull textures
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how the texture and volume of the skull is affected by lighting and how to represent it. ”
In this video lesson ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez addresses the topic: Skull textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Figure Drawing: The Human Head. Learn how to draw the skull, muscles, facial elements, and expressions without using a model.
Partial transcription of the video
“Textures of the skull Now, we'll take the proportions of the skull and add illumination and texture with graphite. That way, we can show the shape a little better and simulate the light, the shade and the different textures of this part of the body. First, we should look at the darkest parts of the skull, especially in the eye socket and the nasal cavity. We'll start with the eye socket which is a concave section, it's a hollow part that has various phases and each of the phases is deep inside but has a curved surface. We'll work this curved surface as we did when we looked at textures and ...”
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Course summary for: Figure Drawing: The Human Head
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing

ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez
A course by ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez
Miguel Bustos Gómez, better known as Zursoif, is a Colombian artist, illustrator, and teacher with 15 years' professional experience. He has been teaching at Casatinta since 2012, leading drawing, anatomy, and illustration workshops. He has also worked as an illustrator for different publishers including Rey Naranjo on Gabo: memorias de una vida mágica, 2012; Ediciones Vestigio on El Pornógrafo, 2019; and Editorial Planeta on El difícil oficio de perdonar, 2019.
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