Artistic Drawing for Beginners

Overview

“Now I am going to explain to you how to shade a drawing, that is, how to give it a sensation of three-dimensionality through a correct distribution of light tones.”

In this video lesson Ester N. Lloveres addresses the topic: Volume 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Drawing for Beginners. Learn academic observation techniques for drawing what you see.

Partial transcription of the video

“The volume Now I will explain to you how light falls on objects. We must take into account that light is responsible for explaining the volume of objects, the distance between them, the depth of the spaces, etc. The line does not exist as such. It is the illusion that the contrast of one tone over another produces. We are going to distinguish between two large groups: the light zone and the shadow zone. If we look around us, we will see that all objects they have a very wide number of light shades. But if we squint our eyes we see that we have compressed the tones and we will distinguish ve...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Drawing for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 7801 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 3m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing