Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil
Concepts of academic drawing - II
A course by Diego Catalan Amilivia , Painter and Illustrator
Joined November 2017
About the video: Concepts of academic drawing - II
Overview
“This is the second part.”
In this video lesson Diego Catalan Amilivia addresses the topic: Concepts of academic drawing - II, 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 Now that we've looked at how to measure and translate information from the visual plane onto the drawing, using our stick, let's look at a couple of other things. First, I want to show you the photo. This is the photo we chose, you can see it's in color and, in fact, the color is very intense. I'm not necessarily interested in using a color photo, we want to translate the tones. What I usually do is convert it to grayscale, like this. We've looked at how to measure a three-dimensional shape. Now let's see how to measure from the photographic plane to the drawi...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Diego Catalan Amilivia
A course by Diego Catalan Amilivia
Diego Catalán graduated from the University of Salamanca with a degree in Fine Arts, specializing in painting. He has done postgraduate work at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He currently combines his art with his work teaching Artistic Anatomy at the Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional in Madrid.
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