Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Complement the portrait
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Complement the portrait
Overview
“With the main characteristics of your portrait sketched and established, you will seek to complement the illustration with elements that give the work greater complexity and beauty. I will tell you how you can complement your portrait with elements that enhance the identity and character of the person portrayed.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Complement the portrait, 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
“Complement the portrait In this lesson, we will complement our portrait through elements that provide a beauty, a structure and composition that enhance identity of the person portrayed. We will do it through some reference photos, elements or structures that you want to complement and imagine based on the portrait we choose. In this case, I already chose a somewhat floral motif. I really like birds, so I will try to include them in my final project. For that, I first thought of a kind of flower arrangement that you may have in the temple or in the temporal. I will also use some sheets to d...”
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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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