Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
Presentation
A course by Néstor Canavarro , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about my professional experience and my beginnings in drawing.”
In this video lesson Néstor Canavarro addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils. Learn to illustrate by mastering volume, light, and shadows using a photograph.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Néstor Canavarro and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator. I studied Graphic Design in Buenos Aires and I was a Typography professor for nine years. I'm a self-taught illustrator. I've drawn for as long as I remember. Since I was little, I loved reproducing what I saw and I observed things and people and tried to draw them from memory. I would watch faces and objects and try to really represent them how I saw them. I started working with drawing by hand-painting t-shirts, rock covers, pictures people brought me. I'd spend hours drawing and painting shirts th...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Colored Pencil Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration

Néstor Canavarro
A course by Néstor Canavarro
Néstor Canavarro has spent more than three decades in the world of imagery, working first as a graphic designer and later as an illustrator. He went on to teach typography at the University of Buenos Aires from 1991 to 1999, then between 2002 and 2004 he was a teacher at the Escuela de Creativos Publicitarios. It is there that he currently works as a designer and illustrator, as well as running a drawing and illustration workshop in Buenos Aires.
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