Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Tonal Information 4
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Tonal Information 4
Overview
“Well done! We've reached the closing stages of this drawing exercise. Next, I will demonstrate how to make the final refinements to your value arrangements. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Tonal 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
“ Tonal Information Now that we're in the closing stages of this phase of the drawing exercise, the drawing portrait, I'll point out a couple of things. Number one, there are interesting material components to this. I'm thinking back to the beginning of the drawing and here I am nearly complete with the tonal phase, ready to move on, but I'm back to the pencil I started with, an F pencil. This is important because you don't want to necessarily go darker and darker with the range. You want to control the range. Controlling the range leads to greater texture and different kinds of refinement....”
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Course summary for: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
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Category
Illustration -
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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