Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time
Adding Details and Environment
A course by Bill Robles , Courtroom Illustrator
About the video: Adding Details and Environment
Overview
“Next, I will show you how to add shading, highlights, and background elements to the piece. I will also discuss how to draw hair details, accessories, and garment folds. ”
In this video lesson Bill Robles addresses the topic: Adding Details and Environment, 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 last lesson, we captured the likeness of the model. In this lesson, We're going to go. deal with patterns, detail, Additional detail and background. First of all, i'm looking at the model and I see he's wearing a very detailed pattern. Shirt. It still has to be secondary, so I'm gonna experiment I'm gonna try to use it. Dark pattern first. If that's, too intense. I'll go to the lighter back on. So I'm gonna use my test sheet here. Pick the black pen. and see how this pattern is going to work out whether it's going to be too intense. Or... Just right. So as I'm going down, I'm not goi...”
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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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