Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing with Pencil
Materials and How To Use Them
A course by Matt Smith , Artist
About the video: Materials and How To Use Them
Overview
“In this lesson, I will go over the materials for the course. These are very basic: a regular sketchbook, a mechanical pencil, and a few erasers. If you don't have a mechanical pencil, any pencil, from HB to 2B, will be fine. ”
In this video lesson Matt Smith addresses the topic: Materials and How To Use Them, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing with Pencil. Learn to sketch a portrait from scratch by exploring a variety of drawing techniques and bring it to life using basic shapes, tones, shadows, and line work.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll be going over the materials and how to use them. But first I would like to talk about the fundamentals of sketching the head. So the fundamentals are learning how to draw the structure of the head using very basic geometric shapes. as well as looking for the light and dark shapes that make up the face. As well as the facial features, as well as looking at the proportions, looking at the thirds of the head, in the center line. The final project will be taking all the information that we learned in the previous lessons to create a more fully realized head sketch. The goa...”
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Course summary for: Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing with Pencil
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing
Matt Smith
A course by Matt Smith
Matthew Smith is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and educator from upstate New York, but has been living in San Diego, California for 15 years. He comes from a family of six, and has a twin brother, who is an artist as well. Like many artists growing up, he has been creating art for as long as he can remember. From drawing dinosaurs very early on to his favorite cartoon and video game characters, he was always creating.
After completing an art degree in university, he began to teach drawing and painting for over a decade. He has created artwork for clients across multiple industries, from gaming, film to fashion. Some of his clients include TIME Magazine, BLT Communications, Remetee Clothing, among others. His work has also been published in multiple books and magazines, such as Spectrum, Infected By Art, and ARC Salon .
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