Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Drawing the Head Block
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Drawing the Head Block
Overview
“Next, I will explain the common proportions to apply to the head block in order to gain a better sense of its presence in a drawing. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Drawing the Head Block, 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
“ Drawing the Head Block In the last lesson, I taught you how to draw a simple block in space, a transparent block. In this lesson, we'll talk about subdividing that or more specifically, drawing the cube in space. What we want to do is begin with whatever shape we have. My advice is to take that subject and rotate it in some way, reposition it so that you test your ability to draw an architectonic form. Then, what I'm going to recommend you do is take an assessment of, in this case, the width, the depth, whatever you want to call it, this distance and that distance, which are the same on t...”
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Course summary for: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
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Category
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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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