Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil

Overview

“We will learn some basics of the academic drawing that will help us maintain control over the image and reduce the margin of error enormously. These principles may seem initially counterintuitive and yet, once they have been understood and assimilated through practice, they assume a whole new way of SEEING. The systematic application of these principles and tools is behind all great drawing. ”

In this video lesson Diego Catalan Amilivia addresses the topic: Concepts of academic drawing - I, 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

“THE BASICS OF ACADEMIC DRAWING OK, we have our photograph. Now let's talk a little bit about the sort of tools we need to put into practice to transfer the information we're looking at onto the page. We want to do this as accurately as possible, so there are a few issues we need to address. I'm going to try to explain why drawing is so complicated, what it is that makes it hard to translate what we see into graphite marks on a sheet of paper. In fact, the way we perceive reality is pretty standard. There is no great difference in the way different people see the same object. There may be sl...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (5169)
• 150833 students
• 4 units
• 35 lessons (9h 30m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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