Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
Colour Work
A course by Chris Gambrell , Artist and Fashion Illustrator
About the video: Colour Work
Overview
“In this lesson we’ll work on harmonising the colours of the image until it's balanced. ”
In this video lesson Chris Gambrell addresses the topic: Colour Work, 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
“Okay, so in this lesson, we are in the wonderful position of being able to put color in, we're going to adjust colors, we're going to harmonize, create abstract areas, help catch the eye and lead it into the more detail-oriented areas. I'm just going to tweak a little bit of this shadow that I've got. seeing just so that we make sure we've got the tones Correct in here. And then we're going to move on. just softening the line of the shadow. So it's not quite so drastic. I'm just going to use the very light yellow. just to bring some light into the top of the shadow, really not much. as a bi...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels
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Areas
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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