Drawing from Observation for Beginners
Hand release exercises
A course by Alvaro Arteaga , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Hand release exercises
Overview
“Let's do it! In this lesson, we'll cover the different ways you hold your pencil and how it affects the way you draw.”
In this video lesson Alvaro Arteaga addresses the topic: Hand release exercises, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing from Observation for Beginners. Learn different techniques to overcome the blank page and create a sketchbook filled with light, volume, and detail.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hand release exercises Now I will teach you how to train the hand. To train means that one in learning to draw you should also get used to the hand because sometimes you have to be quite exact or you can have a much more correct way of drawing. The important thing about this exercise is that we will fill this sheet here to the right of my sketchbook and we are going to fill it with a series of lines that are parallel to each other and equidistant, that is, they have the same distance between one and the other. We will do this exercise with a graphite pencil, in this case, a 4B pencil with a...”
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Course summary for: Drawing from Observation for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching
Alvaro Arteaga
A course by Alvaro Arteaga
Alvaro Arteaga, better known as Alvarejo, is a graphic designer with a passion for illustration. After studying graphic design at the University of Chile, he began to professionally promote his illustrations on Threadless, which provided him with a platform to showcase his art and quickly led to commissioned work. Since then, he's been collaborating with brands in advertising, publishing, and other similar fields.
Over a decade ago, Alvaro discovered that he was also passionate about helping others overcome their fear of the blank page and started teaching illustration, drawing, and design at the University of Santiago, Chile. Throughout his career, he has worked on packaging, publishing, and advertising projects for companies like Puma, Converse, Jeep, and Nestlé.
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