Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
Hair and background
A course by Néstor Canavarro , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Hair and background
Overview
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In this video lesson Néstor Canavarro addresses the topic: Hair and background, 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 Hair and Background All right, let's work on the hair. You can see we transferred the image and mapped out the dark areas in the whole hairline. I've been working on this half. Basically, we have to preserve the spaces between white hairs to make them visible and recognizable. We also can't fully shade in those areas because there are also some hairs within them. So, we'll give it a dark value but we'll also work with stronger colors to draw the internal hairs that appear in the back. I'll work on this area and try to add shading to these sections of the hair, but I'll also try to captu...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
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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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