Artistic Portrait Drawing: Capture Authentic Expressions
Details and Finishing Touches
A course by Sam Brisley , Portrait Artist
About the video: Details and Finishing Touches
Overview
“We’re getting near the end of our project now and can start to focus on the details to bring the drawing to an end. In this lesson, we’ll re-establish some of our values, and refine the transitions between them. Finally, we can start to pick out finer details.”
In this video lesson Sam Brisley addresses the topic: Details and Finishing Touches, 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
“Details and Finishing Touches We're nearing the end of our drawing. In this lesson, we'll focus on the details and the finishing touches. At this stage, we'll start to re-establish some of our values, pick out the details, and generally polish off the drawing. One of the details I've missed here is some of the wrinkles on his forehead and the creases where his neck is twisting. I don't want him to fight for attention with the eyes and the rest of the features. Even though they're dark and they're occlusion shadows, I'll tone them down a little bit, so they're not too distracting. When it co...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Portrait Drawing: Capture Authentic Expressions
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Category
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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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