Mixed Media Portraiture: Capturing Expressions and Emotions

Overview

“I will show the proper way to hold the pencil for rendering, the so-called “artist's hold”. Then, I will also demonstrate how with varying pressure and applications you can create a thick or transparent texture with the oil pastel.”

In this video lesson Daniel Segrove addresses the topic: Techniques and Exercises with Oil Pastel and Graphite 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed Media Portraiture: Capturing Expressions and Emotions. Create expressive contemporary portraits that combine realism and abstraction using a variety of materials and artistic techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Techniques and Exercises with Oil Pastel and Graphite Hopefully, even with that first pass of blending, you see how much more cohesive the drawing gets. It gets very soft and fills in a lot of that white of the paper. As I mentioned, the more you layer, the less it takes to put on top over it because more of that paper is getting covered with the graphite. so you're losing more of that white of the paper, which makes those areas look a bit darker. But each stage, make sure you establish your values, pre-establish the shadows, reestablish the core shadow. What you don't wanna do is over blen...”

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Course summary for: Mixed Media Portraiture: Capturing Expressions and Emotions

• Level: Beginner
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• 2975 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 57m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing