Realistic Pencil Portraiture: Capture Stories and Emotions

Refining the Drawing

A course by Alan Coulson , Portrait Artist

99% positive reviews (135)

3,405 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Refining the Drawing

Overview

“I'll show you how to erase the grid partially and how to refine your line drawing. ”

In this video lesson Alan Coulson addresses the topic: Refining the Drawing, 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

“Refining the Drawing In this lesson, we'll take a look at the drawing that we've made onto our grid and really refine it, tightening it up. We're going to pull away the grid so that it's no longer visible and looking at some of the lines, ensuring that they're defined and clear, so that we've got a really great strong template to start working onto our drawing with. I already started to pull the grid out, but as I creep up some of the lines, I'll pull out that a bit further. I'm really happy with this drawing so far but I just want to feel confident that it's really neat and tidy, so I'm ta...”

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

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (135)
3405 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.