Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
The eye
A course by Néstor Canavarro , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: The eye
Overview
“In this lesson, we will mention the different ways to transfer the photographic reference to paper and draw a realistic eye, solving its different parts and components.”
In this video lesson Néstor Canavarro addresses the topic: The eye, 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
“The Eye Well, we've seen colored pencils, we've seen papers, the materials, and now we'll start making our way towards the portrait we'll draw in this course. We'll start by seeing a few examples of the typical areas of the face. Let's start with this eye. The first step is to transfer the image to paper. There are many ways to do it, you can hand draw it, look at it and copy it as well as you can, but we can also transfer it, which is what we'll do. In order to transfer it, we can use the grid method, in which we draw a grid over our reference image and then we draw the same grid on our dr...”
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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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