Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
About Me
A course by Chris Gambrell , Artist and Fashion Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, you’ll find out about me and my creative journey. I’ll share my formative years, education in the arts. I’ll also share why I took time away and eventually reconnected with the creating work, establishing myself as a pastel portrait artist.”
In this video lesson Chris Gambrell addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels. Learn how to combine mark-making, composition, and color using soft pastels to create captivating portraits filled with emotion.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hi, so my name is Chris Gambrell. I'm an artist illustrator. And I specialize in pastel portraiture. and also specialize in fashion illustration. I was born in Bristol and I'm currently based in Bristol. As a child I was always creative. I always liked to draw on everything. My father used to bring home lots and lots of old paper from his office and I used to cover it in drawings. We do have some artistic history in our family. Going back a few generations, this includes a painting nun. Another relative of mine who is a blood relative is a gentleman called Horace Mann-Livins. He has work in...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
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Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Chris Gambrell
A course by Chris Gambrell
Exploring form, color, and texture through portraiture is a passion Chris carries with him since his teenage years in Bristol, UK. Always seeking to give a fresh perspective on movement and character, he could usually be found at local cafés, filling his sketchbooks with expressive renderings. Chris got his first comissioned work soon after graduating with an illustration degree at the University of the West of England and transitioned into fashion illustration soon after, with clients like Zara clothing.
Following his return from a twelve-year sabbatical in 2016, he started an Instagram account to document his artwork, which gave way to numerous work opportunities. He began illustrating for major European fashion houses and editorials. In 2020, he was chosen by VOGUE to be one of seven artists to draw his favorite looks from VOGUE’s Runway archive pages. Since then, his vibrant portraits have been featured in numerous exhibitions and art galleries. His most recent commissions include the book cover illustration for–art critic from The Guardian–Jonathan Jones’s biography on Artemisia Gentileschi.
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