Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
Influences
A course by Chris Gambrell , Artist and Fashion Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now you will learn about artists I’ve taken inspiration from over the years. ”
In this video lesson Chris Gambrell addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“In this lesson, I'm going to share with you some influences people who have inspired me over the years. First up, Lorenzo Matotti. So who is Lorenzo Matotti? He is an Italian artist. He's done many things. He has produced many New Yorker covers. He has specialised in fashion, but he's also done comic book work. He's produced a lot of narrative work. to moving from frame to frame, All of his work combines wonderful use of color with gestures, dynamism, And he manages to find a different way of illustrating everything he does. He treats every subject. Like it's a completely different brief. I...”
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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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