Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time
The Human Head 1
A course by Bill Robles , Courtroom Illustrator
About the video: The Human Head 1
Overview
“Next, I'm going to be drawing the likeness of a character whose personality and features you may already be familiar with or have an opinion on. ”
In this video lesson Bill Robles addresses the topic: The Human Head 1, 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
“ The Human Head In our last lesson, we ran over the materials that we'll need for the course. In this lesson, I'll teach you how to draw the human head, and I'll be using Mark Twain as an example. Before I show you how to draw the human head, I'll show you a technique that I used to achieve a halftone throughout the course. When we buy the pen from the store, we'll have a solid black line. With my technique, I'll show you how to achieve a dry brush halftone effect, which will end up like this, as a light middle tone, which we use to enhance some of the shading and shadow sides. We've got t...”
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Course summary for: Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time
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Category
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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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