Artistic Portrait Drawing: Capture Authentic Expressions
Shadow Mapping
A course by Sam Brisley , Portrait Artist
About the video: Shadow Mapping
Overview
“Let's now start to map shadows on top of the structural lines we already created. Remember, it is important to stick to only two values at this stage—don’t get sucked into shading and details! We will then refine the shadow map and start to get a stronger likeness to the reference image. One of the things to understand about art is that you won’t get things right the first time! The shadow map is an important stage at getting a likeness. It’s a good idea after drawing your shadow map to take a break and come back to it later. Stick with this stage and refine the shadow maps until you are happy and have started to see a likeness.”
In this video lesson Sam Brisley addresses the topic: Shadow Mapping, 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, what we're going to do now is start to apply a shadow map on top of a structure that we've already created. So it's important to stay disciplined at this stage. Remember, we're just doing a two value Shut him up at this point. Don't get ahead of yourself and start doing too many details. So I'm going to start to develop the drawing now by putting the shadow mapping on. Stick with my carbon. pencils and I'm going to go with a B pencil. This is really an opportunity, like I said, to start to flesh out the likeness because it's really the shadow shapes. that give us likeness...”
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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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