Graphite Portraits with Digital Design
Transfer of the Portrait to Cardboard
A course by Patricia Escalante , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined October 2019
Joined October 2019
About the video: Transfer of the Portrait to Cardboard
Overview
“You will learn how to transfer the main measurements of the portrait to the cardboard. To do this, I will show you two ways to do it. One of them will be to review the measurements of the photo in Photoshop and transfer them to the cardboard. The other option is to print the photo to actual scale and take some measurements with a ruler and then transfer them to the cardboard. In both cases, you will see how to join with a pencil the points of the reference measurements and then you can start drawing the portrait. Let's see it! ”
In this video lesson Patricia Escalante addresses the topic: Transfer of the Portrait to Cardboard, 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
“Transfer of the portrait to cardboard In this lesson we are going to do the handover from the image of the photograph to the cardboard. I advise you, as far as possible, you can print it, if not, you can still do it from Photoshop. You take the measurements and you pass it to your cardboard. You would do the same procedure that I am going to do right now but from the computer. You take the measurements on the computer. First, in this image I am going to plot the main points that I want to measure. I have just chosen this image of Björk, who has a quite original hairstyle, so there are sever...”
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Course summary for: Graphite Portraits with Digital Design
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Patricia Escalante
A course by Patricia Escalante
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.
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