Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Tonal Information 1
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Tonal Information 1
Overview
“Now that we've established the fundamentals—the scene, the gesture, the proportion, and the shapes—in this lesson, I will model how to expand the tonal range of the piece in a very prescribed manner, so that you can more easily comprehend the drawing procedure that I'm demonstrating. I will show you how to control the range to create texture and tonality. During this process, you will learn to interact with the page. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Tonal Information 1, 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
“ Tonal Information In the last lesson, we talked about building up the fundamentals, the fundamental scene comprised of the gesture, the proportion, and the shape. If you will recall, we were talking about building with one single pencil and that would be an F. The F was my pencil of choice for laying a kind of grounding of tonality and which didn't go into any sort of sense of variety, it's very simple, one dark, one light. In this lesson, we'll start looking at a variety of tones and how to build them up. In order for you to be prepared to do this, you're going to want to open up your pe...”
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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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