Classical Portrait Drawing: The Renaissance Man’s Method

Overview

“To end this unit, I will teach you about the importance of tonal values when it comes to lights and shadows.”

In this video lesson Michele Bajona addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Classical Portrait Drawing: The Renaissance Man’s Method. Learn to cultivate active curiosity while exploring Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing techniques to create a classical portrait drawing with materials used in the Renaissance era.

Partial transcription of the video

“Lights and Shadows In this lesson, I will teach you about light and shadow. We will do that by discovering tonal values. The exercise is to represent a 3D object on a bidimensional surface. This is the key to everything we will draw from now on. The artists of the Renaissance, to represent the illusion of a 3D object on a bidimensional surface, we used the concept of tonal values. Tonal values will go from the lightest light of the brightest day to the darkest dark of the darkest night. Considering that, we can create a scale of values that go from light to dark. To represent the sphere, we...”

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Course summary for: Classical Portrait Drawing: The Renaissance Man’s Method

• Level: Beginner
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  Illustration

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  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching