Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache
Tonal value
A course by Davi Calil , Painter, Illustrator, and Comic Artist
About the video: Tonal value
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to produce a tonal value scale and the high, mid, and low keys. Let's simplify the tones to better see their role in the composition of volume and shape.”
In this video lesson Davi Calil addresses the topic: Tonal value, 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
“tonal value In this class, I will explain to you, the difference between the subtleties of transparent grays and dull grays, which appear within the tonal value scale. Here we go. First I need to add black and white to the palette. It's the first time I put on black for you to see, I'm using this tube from Winsor Newton, and the white one, it's the same one I've used before. I'm going to put it here at the opposite end of my palette. What for? To create an area where I will develop the grays. It's important to think about palette logistics as well. Notice that I use palette, I don't use a p...”
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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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