Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Experimenting within the Head 1
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Experimenting within the Head 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will continue to explore surface characteristics. Like before, I will refer to my schematic drawing to navigate the long-pose, observational drawing. However, this time, instead of getting experimental with the value, I will delve deeper into the schematic. By enhancing my understanding of this, I will be able to push the boundaries of my value even further! ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Experimenting within the Head 1, 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
“ Experimenting within the Head In the last lesson, we talked about getting experimental and interpretive with your value. In this lesson, we're going to get more experimental with the schematic drawing so that we can further explore the value. To be clear and to help you along with your own drawing, your own exercise, let's start with a form that's fairly obvious. Let's look throughout this schematic, and I'm zeroing in on this form because this is a good place to address some of the issues that I'm about to get into. The goal is going to be to get this more idiosyncratic to Katherine's fa...”
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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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