Introduction to Portrait Drawing
Ideal Lighting for Portraiture
A course by Alonso Palomino , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Ideal Lighting for Portraiture
Overview
“In this lesson I will give you guidelines on what type of lighting is ideal to get good lights and shadows on a human head. This will contribute a large percentage to the success you achieve in your drawing.”
In this video lesson Alonso Palomino addresses the topic: Ideal Lighting for Portraiture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Portrait Drawing. Learn the basic principles of portraiture and draw every detail of a face from a photograph.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ideal lighting for portraiture In this lesson I will give you guidelines on the ideal type of lighting to achieve good lights and shadows on a human head. The ideal lighting for learning to draw portraits, It is the one that comes from some upper corner. I will show you some examples. Here we have three photographs. In all three cases there is a single source of illumination and it comes from the upper right corner. This is ideal because it generates us very marked shadows, very delimited, and this will help us make the drawing look like the model. Although there are many types of lighting,...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Portrait Drawing
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Alonso Palomino
A course by Alonso Palomino
Alonso Palomino is a graphic designer by trade, but an artist at heart. His first contact with art was the small woman who watched him from the frame on his great grandfather's bedside table; he felt so entranced by her gaze that the image stuck with him. Years later, he found out that it had been Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa who had been watching him.
Alonso's passion for portraying life through faces is reflected in his art, which focuses on portraits and the human figure. He currently works as an illustrator, designer, and independent artist.
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