Introduction to Portrait Drawing
Highlights, Midtones and Shadows 1
A course by Alonso Palomino , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Highlights, Midtones and Shadows 1
Overview
“You will see more in depth how to develop the areas of highlights, midtones and shadows. ”
In this video lesson Alonso Palomino addresses the topic: Highlights, Midtones and Shadows 1, 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
“Highlights, midtones and shadows In this lesson we will work the lights, midtones and shadows in our drawing. For this stage, we will use a piece of thick charcoal. We are going to hold the charcoal in this position. And we will apply it to the entire area within the shadow limits. And this whole area is also in shadow. Here we have a lighted area. We don't touch that one. And in this area we also have projected shadows. Now I will apply the charcoal on the hair masses. With movements in this direction I am marking the most noticeable areas in hair volumes. In some areas, use a little more ...”
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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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