Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil
Texturing and finishing touches - I
A course by Diego Catalan Amilivia , Painter and Illustrator
Joined November 2017
About the video: Texturing and finishing touches - I
Overview
“After the rendering of the form we have managed to arrange the tones hierarchically so that they express the place occupied by the forms that make up the head in space and their respective distance to the light source. It is very important that the orchestration of these tones is rigorous or we run the risk of committing spatial paradoxes. Now it's time to texture the surface. We have covered the previous structure with a membrane but we need to start counting all the accidents that occur on the skin, pores, wrinkles, moles, hairs, etc. As it can not be otherwise, the principles of the physics of light are applied again, both in the macro and in the micro. Prepare for the final straight.”
In this video lesson Diego Catalan Amilivia addresses the topic: Texturing and finishing touches - 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
“Texturing and Finishing Touches Well, we've reached this lesson of texturing and finishing touches. As you can see, I've spent quite some time on my sketch. I've applied these same principles and I've been expanding to the whole sketch, including his T-shirt and neck. For now, there's less detail here. I've mostly focused on developing the volumes on the face. I've started hinting at some texture. I still haven't gone into too much detail because I wanted to do it on camera so you guys could see it. The camera angles have been swapped in order to better zoom in so you can properly see the d...”
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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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