Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Drawing the Trapezoid: A Lesson in Taper
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Drawing the Trapezoid: A Lesson in Taper
Overview
“In this lesson, I will discuss the phenomenon of taper and its impact on form, especially "blocky" forms. This is very important to understand when drawing portraits. In the human head, the face tapers and the back flares outwards. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Drawing the Trapezoid: A Lesson in Taper, 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, we talked about drawing the cube and getting at the proportions of the general block head. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to draw the trapezoid. Let's get started. So in order to draw the trapezoid, You want to begin? like the other exercises. in a very simple way, with a very simple geometric blocky or cube form. And when I say that, I really mean that you do not have to draw a cube, you could draw a block, It's all up to you. but you've got to draw something that looks like It's essentially comprised of lots of right angles. So I'm going to go in and articu...”
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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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