Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
The Schematic Drawing 1
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: The Schematic Drawing 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will add a second, structural drawing. I call this the "schematic drawing". The purpose of this drawing is to help you evaluate the observational sketch. To begin, I will indicate various lines to imitate the action of the model. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: The Schematic Drawing 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
“ The Schematic Drawing In the last lesson, we talked about tonality and value. In this lesson, we'll talk about the architectonic and the planes. Before I begin drawing the architectonic, I want to show you, once again, coming back from the screencast, the 1907 planar diagram created by John H. Vanderpoel in Chicago. This is going to be my goal. I want to get the architectonic drawing, which I'll show you and demonstrate in a moment, to exhibit these characteristics so that I can then jump back into the drawing itself, the observational drawing on the left side, and impart further detail i...”
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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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