Contemporary Portraits with Graphite
The Contour and Final Touches
A course by lantomo , Artist and Portrait Specialist
About the video: The Contour and Final Touches
Overview
“If you have decided to make a completely black background like me, this is the moment. I will teach you how to integrate the outline of the portrait with the background that I will do next, and how to leave it finished if you have decided to use the tone of the paper as the background. You should be very careful when making a background with pastels because there are many possibilities of dirtying the drawing! I will explain to you how I manage to avoid it and how I end it. I will also give you more options for your funds, so that you are free to follow your inspiration.”
In this video lesson lantomo addresses the topic: The Contour and Final Touches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Contemporary Portraits with Graphite. Combine analog and digital techniques to create realistic pencil portraits filled with emotion.
Partial transcription of the video
“The contour and final touches In this lesson I will teach you to make the outline of your drawing and how to give some final touches so that it is completely finished. The contour of the face can seem like a fairly simple part, but in reality it is a line in which several tones come together. We will have to work in a fairly general way, remembering that it is not a defined line, but rather a curvature. For this reason, near very light tones, we will see very dark tones. We will use both very hard pencils like softer ones. Let's start drawing. Here you can see that the face would end on thi...”
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Course summary for: Contemporary Portraits with Graphite
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration
lantomo
A course by lantomo
Antonella Montes, who goes by the artistic name Lantomo, is an Italian artist living in Barcelona. She studied architecture in Italy with a specialization in stage and exhibit design, but since 2010, has worked exclusively as a professional portrait artist. She spent three years living in Beijing, China where she perfected her portraits, creating increasingly detailed and precise works with her signature mark.
She is currently represented by galleries such as Galería Bat Alberto Cornejo in Madrid, Galería 3 Punts in Barcelona, and Retrospect Galleries in Byron Bay, Australia. She is also active at international fairs and expos.
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