Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Tonal Information 3
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Tonal Information 3
Overview
“Now, it's time to tackle the most challenging value: the darkest light. This is the value that is on the cusp of being a shadow, yet is still considered light. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Tonal Information 3, 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 Returning to the drawing now, it's important to point out a few things that I've been working on. One of them is related to this idea of this harsh divide between the light mass and the shadow mass, that emphasizes the edge, which I call the lifeline, and I'll take that lifeline and search out relationships all along that passageway, and these include both on the side that the light meets the shadow, right where the terminator is. This is a better example. The terminator sits right there. That is the terminator, where the light ends. Both on that side as well as on this ...”
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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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