Classical Portrait Drawing: The Renaissance Man’s Method
Tonal Values
A course by Michele Bajona , Contemporary Figurative Artist
About the video: Tonal Values
Overview
“Once the construction drawing is done, we need to identify the shadow areas that create the different planes of the head. We can do this by creating different tonal values to build up the general masses.”
In this video lesson Michele Bajona addresses the topic: Tonal Values, 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
“Tonal Values In this lesson, we're going to use our tonal values to their full extent. We're going to use light tonal values to represent all that is in dark in our image. Then, we're going to add more values to those bigger masses. We're going to eventually introduce the other two colors of the composition, which is going to be the white chalk and the red chalk that Leonardo would have used, but mostly, we'll use the charcoal to refine these main masses that we've studied in the previous lesson. Let's start analyzing what's still missing in terms of masses and placement of the main feature...”
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Course summary for: Classical Portrait Drawing: The Renaissance Man’s Method
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching
Michele Bajona
A course by Michele Bajona
Michele Bajona is an architect-turned-painter whose artwork has been exhibited throughout America and Europe. He attended the Art Student League in New York City and is a member of Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona. He currently resides in Mexico City, where he continues to paint and teaches art. He has given masterclasses at Museums and cultural institutions.
In addition to solo and collective exhibitions across the globe, he won the first prize for best video documentary at the 54th Venice Art Biennial, Padiglione Italia.
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