Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Presentation
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“Hi, I'm Leonardo Gauna, I'm an illustrator and I live in the city of La Plata, Argentina. To start this course, I will tell you who I am and how my career has been. In addition, I will share my interests and my work with you.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots. Learn to analyze the anatomy of a face, play with light and shadow, and express the identity of people through portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello everyone, welcome to this course, my name is Leonardo Gauna, I am a graduate and professor in Plastic Arts, and I studied at the University of La Plata in Argentina. I am also an illustrator for graphic or editorial media. Since time I have been working on the technique of inking by raster and dots, which is something that fills me with pleasure, because I like its finish, the technique, the method of work and process. I find a way to bring in some resources from the late 1800s that are linked a bit to the editorial or the graphic, to this new era of immediacy and devices...”
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Course summary for: Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing

Leonardo Gauna
A course by Leonardo Gauna
Leonardo Gauna is an illustrator with more than a decade of experience who lives in the city of La Plata, Argentina. He has illustrated for a variety of media outlets, institutions, agencies, and galleries, and has traveled across the world to present artistic and educational projects in cities like Tokyo, Toronto, Paris, Belo Horizonte, Prague, and Houston, among others.
In 2014, the publisher TASCHEN featured his work in the book Illustration Now 5! Leonardo has published 12 books and his latest is a collection of his illustrations. He currently teaches workshops and courses and does research on virtual reality, which was the topic of his thesis for his degree in fine arts from the La Plata National University.
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