Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Ink peripheral objects
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Ink peripheral objects
Overview
“Now you will pay special attention to all the elements that are superimposed on the person portrayed, looking in these and their superpositions a greater illusion of depth and spatiality.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Ink peripheral objects, 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
“Ink peripheral objects In this second lesson we are going to see the inking of peripheral objects. For that, we are not going to make such a striking dot pattern or as developed as the one that will have the center of the face, a little so as not to take away the limelight or give something notoriety which in the end is merely peripheral, compositional or structural. In principle, we are going to start by delimiting the shapes that are around. It is important that with this delimitation of the inking of lines we can better define the planes, give depth to an element, give it visibility or o...”
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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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