Introduction to Realistic Oil Portraiture
Draw to understand
A course by Laura Cuadros , Portrait and Landscape Artist
About the video: Draw to understand
Overview
“You will learn how to make a simple structure of the face and its parts to understand the proportion, this process can be adapted to any portrait.”
In this video lesson Laura Cuadros addresses the topic: Draw to understand, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Realistic Oil Portraiture. Learn to paint faces from scratch and bring detailed characters to life .
Partial transcription of the video
“Drawing to Understand In this lesson, I'll show you facial proportions from the front using a quick and easy outline. This facial structure is a reference and you can use it for any shape. We'll start by marking a central line in the middle of our paper, and then we'll determine what size to make the face. I'll make it this big. We'll make a line at the bottom and another at the top to establish the size of our face. Now we'll make a rectangle. When you're learning, you can always use a ruler. This way, you'll also start training your eye. Now that we have this rectangle, we'll draw the sha...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Realistic Oil Portraiture
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Laura Cuadros
A course by Laura Cuadros
Laura Cuadros has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. Thanks to studying fashion design, she has developed a keen eye for details and textures and has become an expert in recreating those realistic details in her oil portraits and landscapes. As a self-taught artist, she continuously develops and improves her technique by watching other artists while she paints.
She works on commission for private clients as well as for brands like Bobbi Brown, Banana Republic, Absolut Vodka, and Levi's. She aims to capture the beauty of nature in her work and display in places where these images are unfamiliar as a way of promoting care and respect for nature itself.
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