Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache
Start with the movement
A course by Davi Calil , Painter, Illustrator, and Comic Artist
About the video: Start with the movement
Overview
“In this class, I will explain in more detail what pareidolia is and how this phenomenon can help bring more life and movement to your painting.”
In this video lesson Davi Calil addresses the topic: Start with the movement, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache. Learn contemporary painting techniques to create stylized portraits from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“start with the movement In this class we will do an exercise that helps us to better understand the nature of the painting's form. Regardless of the theme we are going to paint, there must be movement in the painting, to break the feeling of monotony that certain compositions generate. All movement generates form, but not all form generates movement. This means that, first of all, we need to conjure on paper a visual force and then we will work on this visual force modeling to become the portrait, a landscape or whatever you are painting. The visual force must be contained in a pictorial pl...”
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Course summary for: Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Gouache Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration
Davi Calil
A course by Davi Calil
Davi Calil is a painter, illustrator, and comic artist. He started to produce his first caricatures and comic strips for his town's (Guararema, São Paulo) local paper at the age of 15. He has self-published two works with Dead Hamster, the publishing house which he cofounded, titled Surubotron and Quaisqualigundum, and the latter won him the Troféu HQMIX in the Single-Issue Independent Publication category.
In addition to his creative career, Davi has over a decade's teaching experience and has run workshops in a number of different Brazilian cities. He was also a character designer for Cartoon Network's animated series Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids.
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