Realistic Portraits with Pen
What will we do in the course?
A course by Joaquín Rodríguez , Graphic artist
Joined February 2015
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“Now I am going to tell you what will be the steps that we will follow during the course and I will propose a final project focused on the portrait in pen.”
In this video lesson Joaquín Rodríguez addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Portraits with Pen. Learn how to draw creative portraits by combining hyperrealistic and abstract elements.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do in the course? In this lesson I will tell you about the project that we are going to carry out along the course. The ballpoint technique is a technique that is relatively modern. It is the product of an element that is inserted relatively young and history, compared to other examples of art history, it is very short. There is something very striking about this technique, perhaps because it is such an everyday object and so close to people from the beginning, almost at the school stage, and there is a kind of fascination with respect to any drawing that comes from the ballpoi...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portraits with Pen
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration

Joaquín Rodríguez
A course by Joaquín Rodríguez
Graphic artist Joaquín Rodríguez has a degree in architecture, but found his true calling in drawing. Using a pen as his main creative tool, his work mostly combines abstract geometric figures with cyberpunk culture.
He has collaborated with the La Fiambrera gallery in Madrid and with Spanish magazines like Jaleo and Yorokobu. He has also participated in solo and group exhibitions in several galleries throughout Europe.
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