Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Start the sketch: choose photo and initial line
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Start the sketch: choose photo and initial line
Overview
“I will teach you how to find the appropriate tonal key in your reference photographs, to start the basic sketch, where you will mark the main structures of the portrait and their changes in value. You will learn how to find an ingenious lighting that enhances the characteristics of your work, in addition, I will explain how to make the correct direction of the organization of the frames and points.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Start the sketch: choose photo and initial line, 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
“Start the sketch: choose photo and initial line In this unit, we will put into action all the knowledge and information we saw in the previous unit in order to develop our final project with an initial sketch development, a more complex one and finally start with the inking stages. I would initially like to give you some practical advice about choosing a suitable photo. For that, in the first instance, it seems important to discard photos with direct flash and head-on. What those photographs do, we will see some examples, is to eliminate the main volume that the face has. That difference we...”
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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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