Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Experimenting within the Head 5
A course by Dan Thompson , Artist and Teacher
About the video: Experimenting within the Head 5
Overview
“Next, I will emphasize the sense of flare in my portrait by refining the features that protrude on the body, like the ears, and incorporating highlights.”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Experimenting within the Head 5, 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
“So we're looking together at the ear. And we're studying the way in which these parts can be broken down in a planar sense. And to do that, I'm just kind of grabbing onto angles and sending The feature outwards. Because we notice that about the feature, it tends to travel away from the general facial plane, I like to differentiate. this kind of a line here and here which appears to govern that feature and it's outward spread, from this kind of a line here. that I indicated before. which seems to govern the cheekbone, that's very different from that feature. That's an important thing to look...”
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Course summary for: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
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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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