Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Volumes, lights and shadows
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Volumes, lights and shadows
Overview
“You will see how light falls on objects, moves and bounces, in addition, I will share some initial tips to choose or photograph a good reference with which you can work your illustration. I will help you understand some light and shadow aspects in drawing with the help of some simple exercises.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Volumes, lights and shadows, 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
“Volumes, lights and shadows In this lesson, we will see how light affects objects how it bounces, how it travels, and we will see some tips to be able to choose the most suitable photo for our project and the one that best visualizes these volume changes, this three-dimensionality that a face can have. It is important that the lighting accentuates and exposes the volumetry of the elements of our illustration. In the case of the face, nose, volume changes or what we were analyzing of what belongs to the front and what belongs to the profile. The goal of this is to find the direction, the int...”
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Course summary for: Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
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Category
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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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