Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Inking the face
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Inking the face
Overview
“I will show you how to start inking eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, nose, mouth and peripheral structures, respecting the muscle schemes and the directions of the tension groups. ”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Inking the face, 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
“Inking the face Hello, welcome to Unit 5. We are finally with the inking process. We have the digital sketch. Remember in pencil to do it with a very fine and delicate pressure so that it is easy to erase it when we go inking each part of the process or at the end. As we saw before, I marked lighting reference lines, shadows and value changes. What to watch out for are the direction lines of the plot system and point that we will do. That in the sketch I didn't mark it because it can be confusing. I will remind you of what we were seeing. These are the approximate addresses. The important t...”
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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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