Expressive Figure Drawing: Explore Lines, Shapes and Colors
The funds 2
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba , Illustrator, Writer, and Educator
Joined September 2020
About the video: The funds 2
Overview
“ We continue working in the background to leave the illustration almost finished, in the absence of some final digital touches.”
In this video lesson Daniel Torrent Riba addresses the topic: The funds 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Figure Drawing: Explore Lines, Shapes and Colors. Learn to draw the human figure in an expressive and personal way by combining observation, feeling, and imagination in your creative process.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Backgrounds If you stain the table, don't worry, because this can be cleaned with soap and water. We run the risk that if we make the whole square blue, it would be a little commonplace, a little predictable, so we'll take a color as dark as this one, we'll make the door that we have in the photograph, and the wardrobe also in a darker color, so that it's not so focused here and we are left with an eyesore in the end. A trick when working with color is, if the color is localized in a point, in a single area of the drawing, it may seem that it is out of place, that we have put it inadv...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Figure Drawing: Explore Lines, Shapes and Colors
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing

Daniel Torrent Riba
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba
Dani Torrent is an illustrator, painter, and also a writer. He lives in Barcelona and has more than ten years' experience illustrating picture books, many of them self-authored. He studied film directing and that knowledge is reflected in the structure, pace, and composition of his creations, which embody the essence of a short film.
He has created illustrations for media outlets and advertising, but he is most well known for his creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature. He has worked for Spanish publishing companies such as Edelvives, Kalandraka, Alfaguara, Cal.lígraf and Comanegra, but his artistic work has had a much greater impact on his career and led him to be a renowned illustrator. He has also published his work in France, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, China, Korea, and the United States.
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