Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil

Overview

“My influences are very diverse because my academic and sentimental training has been very heterogeneous. I have always debated between academia and popular culture, between classical and historicist painting that appeared in the history books of the school that transported me to another time and the horror and science fiction comic that enriched my imagination. It will be the fascination with the refined technique of the great masters that pushes me finally to define my path but trying not to renounce what has always made me feel the emotion. ”

In this video lesson Diego Catalan Amilivia addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil. Learn the basics and technique to create realistic anatomical drawings.

Partial transcription of the video

“INFLUENCES OK, in this section on influences, I'd like to share some of the figures that have done the most to sort of light my way. This is a brief selection. In fact, since my background is so eclectic and diverse, my influences are just as varied. So this is just a tiny sample. I'll start by showing you some drawings by Ingres. Ingres was a French Neoclassical sketch artist and painter. He had really exquisite taste, as you can see in his bourgeois portraits, which were in vogue at the time. He was a great sketch artist and had great technique. And I'm showing you this because, within th...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 35 lessons (9h 30m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration