Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time
Materials
A course by Bill Robles , Courtroom Illustrator
About the video: Materials
Overview
“What are the materials you need to start working on the project? In this lesson, I will walk you through what I will use to produce the artwork for the course. ”
In this video lesson Bill Robles addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time. Learn to draw on-the-spot sketches with a famous courtroom illustrator, using pens, colored pencils, and markers to capture a subject and their environment.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the previous lesson, I spoke about illustrators that influenced my career. In this lesson, I'm going to be showing the materials that you'll be needing for this course. I will be using for demonstrations the canton, vittalon, Vellum pad. I love the vellum pad. which I discovered 52 years ago. And. The beauty of the vellum pad is when I apply a marker, to the surface. It stays wet and does not absorb. It's very similar to tracing paper, except that it's much thicker. and much easier to manipulate. The next important tool is my drawing instrument, which is the Pentel Rolling Rider. I chose...”
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Course summary for: Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Colored Pencil Drawing, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Sketching
Bill Robles
A course by Bill Robles
Bill Robles is a courtroom illustrator from Los Angeles who has worked on some of the world’s most high-profile cases. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Art Center College of Design, and went on to work on the 1970 Charles Manson case, which launched his career. He has since worked on cases involving O.J Simpson, Michael Jackson, Harvey Weinstein, and Britney Spears among others.
Outside the courtroom, Bill has received numerous awards and assignments, including an Emmy Award nomination and three gold medals from the Broadcast Designers Association. He has worked with clients including CBS News, CNN, NBC News, and Fox News. Bill was also commissioned by NASA to cover the first four space shuttle missions. He is still active in TV News and Illustration Commissions, and gives lectures about his courtroom artwork at libraries, colleges, and art groups.
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