Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
Making an Image Work as a Piece
A course by Chris Gambrell , Artist and Fashion Illustrator
About the video: Making an Image Work as a Piece
Overview
“In this lesson we’ll be attempting to make the drawing work by tying the shapes together with tone and texture”
In this video lesson Chris Gambrell addresses the topic: Making an Image Work as a Piece, 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 will attempt to pull together the various aspects of the portrait, the image, the drawing, by using texture and tone. I'm going to be quite brash and actually lay in some of this larger dark tone. So for this I'm not going to commit fully, but I'm going to use something which is quite a bit darker just to lay in. So you can see here this tonal shape Probably not started in the right place with this. I'll take that out. do you want to get this in the right place. So it slides down across It's quite a defining shape. goes all the way down over the bands. across the eyeb...”
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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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