Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Tonal Information 2
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Tonal Information 2
Overview
“Next, I will introduce the perspective technique of foreshortening. You will see how I create depth—as if the 2D drawing is receding into space— by dropping the values. For this stage, I will focus on the two masses below and above the face. The next phase will be to get started with the light, which I call the "complexion value". ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Tonal 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
“ Tonal Information That goes deeper. It still keeps itself well separated from what's happening up and through here. I may darken this down even further. If I do, then I can probably afford to darken this as well. That will push everything farther away from the lights and help me get a richer value sense in the lights later on. I'm likely to jump back and forth now between this mass here and the one that sits up in this region. That value right there positions the top of her head to go back in space in an example of what we call foreshortening. This does as well. I'll put some of these in ...”
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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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