Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Optical Information 4
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Optical Information 4
Overview
“It's now time to conclude the first phase of the drawing process: it's the end of the beginning! Here, I will evaluate my process so far. You will learn to evaluate the world from an artistic perspective by seeing in shapes.”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Optical Information 4, 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 Returning to the drawing now after having refined the shape component, the flat pattern element a little bit, we want to think a bit about the way painters see. Painters see in shape and painters try to capitalize on the glorious abstraction that exists in everything that they're presented with. I want to show you a couple things that I did to the drawing since we last spoke. I was looking at this bridge that we were referring to and it was allowing me to separate these light patterns from the shadow area and lift up what will become her lid when this turns into an eye...”
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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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