Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
Introduction to Materials
A course by Chris Gambrell , Artist and Fashion Illustrator
About the video: Introduction to Materials
Overview
“In this lesson I’ll show you the materials we’ll be using. ”
In this video lesson Chris Gambrell addresses the topic: Introduction to Materials, 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
“So in this lesson, we're going to look at the materials that we're going to be using as we go through the course. So we're going to start with plain A4 white copy of paper. It's disposable or it's recyclable. We use this because I don't want you to attach too much value to it. It's supposed to be something that you can practice on. So we'll be using that for our preliminary sketches and then putting them to one side. After we used plain A4 white copy of paper, We'll be moving on to using Final Surface. which is in this case a larger scale, so it's AE3, it's 150 gram. It has quite a similar ...”
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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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