Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Influences
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share some of my influences throughout history. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture. Learn how to use structural forms with multiple planes to create experimental pencil portraits from observation of the human figure.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, you learned a bit about me, In this lesson, I want to show you a little bit more about my own influences. Let's take a look. I'm going to show you some of the images and mention certain names of artists whose work inspires me as an enthusiast of the human figure in art history. I'll start with Hans Holbein who possessed an incomparably beautiful line. If you've seen this painting, The Ambassadors in London, you know its symbols and paradoxes, including the anamorphic or distorted skull, According to scholars, These references are to learning, religion, mortality and illu...”
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Course summary for: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
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Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching
Dan Thompson
A course by Dan Thompson
Dan Thompson is an artist and educator from Virginia, U.S. with over 20 years of experience in his field. He first discovered a love of art through making band posters and later studied for an MFA at the Graduate School of Figurative Art. Passionate about human anatomy and perspective, as well as educating others, he went on to found two art schools of his own in New York.
Dan currently serves as dean of fine arts at Studio Incamminati, as well as the faculty chair of the one-year certificate of fine arts program at the New York Academy of Art. He has been awarded two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting on multiple occasions. In 2001, he also won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work can be found in both public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.
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