Graphite Portraits with Digital Design

What will we do in the course?

A course by Patricia Escalante , Visual Artist and Designer

Visual Artist and Designer. Lima District, Peru.
Joined October 2019
95% positive reviews (21)
320 students
Audio: Spanish, German, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish
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About the video: What will we do in the course?

Overview

“In this course, you will create a composition where the main character is the portrait. I will teach you to draw it in a very rigorous technique with a graphite pencil. Then, you will learn how to look for inspiration in some magazine covers to investigate a visual variety of graphic and pictorial elements full of expressiveness. So you can have fun creating your own visual universe in digital. ”

In this video lesson Patricia Escalante addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphite Portraits with Digital Design. Create a graphite portrait from a photograph and color it with digital mixed media.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this course. you will begin by creating a realistic graphite portrait from a photograph. Next. you will use digital tools to transform it. adding your own creative concept and artistic vision. you will create the portrait of an artist or person of your choice. and I will teach you a modeling technique with a meticulous and realistic finish. Then. you can alter it with different visual elements that will give it your personal touch. The goal of this course is for you to learn to combine a classic drawing method with a contemporary and digital approach to enhance creativity. The aim is for...”

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Course summary for: Graphite Portraits with Digital Design

  • Level: Beginner
  • 95% positive reviews (21)
  • 320 students
  • 5 units
  • 22 lessons (3h 20m)
  • 1 download
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Patricia Escalante

Patricia Escalante
A course by Patricia Escalante

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Visual Artist and Designer

Patricia Escalante studied painting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. However, she spent 12 years of her career pursuing one of her other passions: graphic design. During that time, she worked with companies like Kerzen and Unique/Yanbal.

Now she is fully devoted to art and experiments with graphite drawing and other digital techniques. Much of her work focuses on portraits of artists and people she admires. Inspired by classic magazine graphics and black and white photography, Patricia explores the depth of portraits as an art form and depicts her figures in timeless spaces.


  • 95% positive reviews (21)
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Graphite Portraits with Digital Design. Illustration course by Patricia Escalante

Graphite Portraits with Digital Design

A course by Patricia Escalante
Visual Artist and Designer. Lima District, Peru.
Joined October 2019
  • 95% positive reviews (21)
  • 320 students