Artistic Portrait Drawing: Capture Authentic Expressions
Materials
A course by Sam Brisley , Portrait Artist
About the video: Materials
Overview
“Let me show you some of the materials I use when creating a portrait. We’ll look at different types of pencils, erasers, blending tools, and paper. I will show you how these different materials behave and how I use them to create different effects.”
In this video lesson Sam Brisley addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Portrait Drawing: Capture Authentic Expressions. Draw striking pencil portraits by learning how to apply shadow mapping techniques to capture realistic facial structures.
Partial transcription of the video
“So in this lesson, I'm going to go through the materials that I use, in order to create a portrait. So I'll go through the types of pencils that I'm using the types of erasers. The blending tools. and the paper. And then I'm going to demonstrate how I use these different materials to create different effects for the portrait. So the first material we're going to look at now is graphite pencils. We're all familiar with, we've all used them since we were kids really. And they're bog standard ones you can just buy in stores. So I've got a set here. These are made by Derwent. Although the brand...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Portrait Drawing: Capture Authentic Expressions
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Sam Brisley
A course by Sam Brisley
Sam Brisley relates his passion for portraiture and history to his hometown Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born. Incorporating historical elements into his portraits such as costumes and hair styles is his way of bringing his two passions together to create unique works of art. As a structural engineer from nine to five, and a portrait artist in his free time, Sam has been learning about portraiture, figure drawing, anatomy, and gesture drawing from a young age, always finding time to keep developing his abilities.
Sam has taught a number of drawing workshops, ranging from portraiture, figure drawing, and more. He also shares his work in progress drawings with his followers on Instagram to help others improve.
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