Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face
Influences
A course by Gabriela Niko , Illustrator and Sketchbook Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I’d like to share with you some of my influences.”
In this video lesson Gabriela Niko addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face. Discover the fundamentals of portraiture by learning to draw facial features and tracking your progress in a sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll show you some of my influences. The first and my biggest influence are my parents. My dad is an artist from Bulgaria and he met my mom when she worked in Print Biennial in Kraków. She was organizing the exhibition and he went there to see it. They said that I was on my first big opening of the exhibition when I was a baby. I grew up watching my dad's work. My first piece of art that they kept is a portrait of my mom. My dad drew portraits from life. I remember when we had to sit for a long time because he was drawing all of us. Lubomir Nikolov You can see my ...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching
Gabriela Niko
A course by Gabriela Niko
Gabriela Niko is a freelance artist based in Poland. Having grown up in a family of artists, her passion for drawing came at a very early age. She went on to study design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland, and started her professional career in sports apparel design. After almost a decade of working in the clothing design industry, she decided to leave her position as a designer and pursue drawing full time in 2020.
Gabriela uses her social media platforms to share her work and has quickly gained recognition by amassing over 350K followers on Instagram. She is currently a brand ambassador for Paper Concept, a Polish art store, and has completed a number of commissioned works, including book illustrations, tattoos, and logo designs.
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