Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
Blind Contours
A course by Raúl Allén , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Blind Contours
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll teach you an observation exercise that involves drawing portraits by looking only at the reference image. The objective is to train the eye to faithfully reproduce the reference, leaving aside the most typical representations of the face. To do this, avoid looking at the paper you are drawing on throughout the exercise.”
In this video lesson Raúl Allén addresses the topic: Blind Contours, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters. Discover how to draw urban characters using reference materials while exploring and developing your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“blind contours In this lesson we will train the eye. We'll do this with an exercise called blind contours. We will create monsters with truths. In the previous lesson we have warmed up the hand. Here we will practice observation skills. Let's forget a little about the typical representations eye, mouth, nose thinking in the shape of the oval, in the circle and we will observe the abstraction that is in what we are seeing. For this exercise, we will work with a pair of faces and we will focus on the very abstraction of the lines and the confluences, inclinations, the directions within the fa...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
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Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration
Raúl Allén
A course by Raúl Allén
Raúl Allen is an illustrator and comic artist from Valladolid, Spain, with a long-standing career in the industry. He studied fine art in Salamanca and later moved to Boston where he specialized in illustration and design. Raúl has worked on comics starring iconic characters such as Wonder Woman, Secret Avengers, Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist, and with writers including Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Vita Ayala, and Robert Venditti.
He has also collaborated with big names like Marvel, DC, Valiant, and Boom; on publications like The New York Times, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Billboard Magazine; as well as adidas, Tiempo BBDO, CHINA, Vitruvio Leo Burnett, and many more in the advertising sector.
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