Mixed Media Portraiture: Capturing Expressions and Emotions
Portrait Structure 1
A course by Daniel Segrove , Artist, Illustrator, and Teacher
About the video: Portrait Structure 1
Overview
“First, you will learn the proportions of the face and how the placement of the facial features relate to each other. ”
In this video lesson Daniel Segrove addresses the topic: Portrait Structure 1, 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
“Portrait Structure We'll continue our understanding with basic proportions of the face, starting now with the facial structure for the final project. The first thing I wanna teach you before our final project is a method called sighting. Sighting is when you take a pencil or brush, you extend your arm fully out, and you use this pencil or brush as a unit of measurement to help you measure. What you wanna think about is, one, like the tool you're using is a ruler, where the points of your pencil or brush is the end of the ruler, and your thumb is locking in the back end of that ruler, so you...”
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Course summary for: Mixed Media Portraiture: Capturing Expressions and Emotions
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing
Daniel Segrove
A course by Daniel Segrove
Daniel Segrove is a mixed media artist based in San Francisco. He graduated from Academy of Art University with a BFA in Fine Arts. Following his collaboration with ShowStudio creating fashion illustrations early in his career, Daniel quickly gained wide recognition for his work, and has amassed over 107K followers on Instagram.
His work has been displayed in exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada, most notably at the Robert Kananaj Gallery in Toronto, and the Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco. Daniel’s work has also been featured throughout Europe, like at the Galerie de Francony in Paris and in London Fashion Week (2015). Daniel also teaches workshops on portraiture and figure painting.
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