Intro to Portrait Sketching: Draw in Real-Time
Adding Color 1
A course by Bill Robles , Courtroom Illustrator
About the video: Adding Color 1
Overview
“I will now add color using my Chartpak AD markers and show you how to smudge it on the vellum to give it a watercolor effect.”
In this video lesson Bill Robles addresses the topic: Adding Color 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
“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to add color to enhance the drawing. But before I... Do the color. There are a couple little refinements that I want to change in the drawing. And then we'll get right to the color. I'm going to add a little detail to the little eyelash here. And I see this has to have a little curve in it. This line. So coming up with my little trusted eraser. And I'm correcting that curve there. And at this point, you can choose to remove a couple of incidentals that you have. This is also curved in here. Before I go into applying the color, I wanna make sure that...”
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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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