Realistic Pencil Portraiture: Capture Stories and Emotions

Creating a Grid and Outline

A course by Alan Coulson , Portrait Artist

99% positive reviews (135)

3,406 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Creating a Grid and Outline

Overview

“In this lesson, I will discuss the advantages of using the grid method, decide on the scale of my drawing and draw a grid onto the paper. ”

In this video lesson Alan Coulson addresses the topic: Creating a Grid and Outline, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Pencil Portraiture: Capture Stories and Emotions. Illustrate lifelike portraits using a reference photo as your guide and make them your own with personalized details.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating a Grid and Outline In this lesson, we'll draw our grid onto our paper, consider the size of our grid with the size of our paper, then we're going to transfer our reference image over onto the paper so that we have a line drawing, essentially a template to start our drawing with. I have this clever right-angle ruler, which is really helpful, but not essential. I'll start drawing the grid. My grid has 20 squares up and 13 and a portion across the bottom, so I'm going to call this 14 and it just gives me more space on this side of the drawing, which is fine. I'm thinking about how big...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Pencil Portraiture: Capture Stories and Emotions

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (135)
3406 students
5 units
18 lessons (4h 0m)
3 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration

Alan Coulson

A course by Alan Coulson

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Portrait Artist

Alan Coulson is an award-winning portrait artist from England with over fifteen years of experience using oil paints. He began a Fine Arts degree, however, after struggling to articulate his creative ideas, he dropped out and began working in fashion retail.
It was the birth of his first son in 2005 that prompted him to reconnect with his artistic ideas and explore oil painting. Shortly after deciding to pursue his dream of becoming a portrait artist, Alan Coulson was awarded a BP Portrait Award from The National Portrait Gallery in London. The exposure and awards he has received have given rise to a successful career in portraiture with clients including The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, Bloomberg Markets Magazine, Carlton Books, The Chronicle Review, Club Wembley, and more.