Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Optical Information 2
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Optical Information 2
Overview
“This lesson will be an initiation into dividing light and dark as I introduce the terminator lines. Here, you will learn how to navigate this aspect in order to establish the foundations of your design: the configuration. I will also explain some of my refining systems, including the fixed invariable coordinates, triangulation, and more. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Optical Information 2, 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
“ Optical Information We're back. I've taken the information that I was initially working with, which I would classify as very long. I look at an angle such as this one, and I identified this angle as a very long piece of the design. I look to various degrees, or maybe I should say a selection of similar angles of that type of length, and I try to work through a better relationship between those key angles, those big, giant lines. Now that I've done that, I want to introduce you to a couple of other ideas related to the refinement of the optical portion of this exercise, this drawing. In pa...”
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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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