Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
What Is a Planar Portrait?
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: What Is a Planar Portrait?
Overview
“In this lesson, I will elaborate on what a planar portrait is by looking back into our history and evaluating how this system developed, evolving to promote the use of structural forms – boxes, trapezoids, and blocks – to interpret the human figure. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: What Is a Planar Portrait?, 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
“ What is a Planar Portrait? In the last lesson, we talked about material preparation. In this lesson, I'll teach you about what a planar portrait actually is. Let's go. What is a planar portrait? Let's begin discussing planar portraits by looking back into art history at Leonardo da Vinci. In him, we see an artist with an analytically driven mind. He was curious by nature and wanted to understand what he observed. Artists of the 16th century, such as Cousin and Durer began to consider the study of perspective and its impact on human form. Not very long after Leonardo, we encounter an artis...”
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Course summary for: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
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Areas
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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