Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
Proportions 1
A course by Chris Gambrell , Artist and Fashion Illustrator
About the video: Proportions 1
Overview
“In this lesson you will work on the final paper applying and building on the initial sketching studies with focus on the shapes and their relationship to each other.”
In this video lesson Chris Gambrell addresses the topic: Proportions 1, 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 are going to use all of the information, all of the observation that you've done. in the initial sketching by the end of this lesson, we are going to have mapped out the face and we will tried to get proportions correct. We will be using the measuring devices that we looked at and we will be checking to make sure that we've got things structurally correct. before we move on. And begin to build up the tone, and the color of the face. In order to do that, i've got my reference similar positions to before. cropped in a similar way. I've got the final surface, i've got an...”
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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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