Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
The skin
A course by Néstor Canavarro , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: The skin
Overview
“Here we will work on the skin and how to draw its characteristic texture and apply realistic shadows on it. ”
In this video lesson Néstor Canavarro addresses the topic: The skin, 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 Skin In this lesson, we'll see a very important element: skin. Many people ask me how to draw skin texture, how to recreate it with colored pencils. Well, I'll show you how I tackle that issue. First of all, there are many types of skin. They're not all the same, the condition of the skin may vary, some are firmer, others have more wrinkles, but we'll work with a basic average skin. We have to pay attention to the pores. The skin's pores are distributed irregularly, but the distance between them is usually even. We don't have some very close and others very far apart. They're generally ...”
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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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