Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing with Pencil
Corrections and Filling in the Shapes
A course by Matt Smith , Artist
About the video: Corrections and Filling in the Shapes
Overview
“Next, I will make some corrections to my piece and I will fill in the shadow or dark shapes that I drew in to reveal the drawing more.”
In this video lesson Matt Smith addresses the topic: Corrections and Filling in the Shapes, 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, i'll begin drawing in the shapes and filling them in. Before I fill in the shapes, I've noticed a few things in the drawing I want to make a quick correction to. So I'm going to go ahead and do that before going on. The headpiece needs to be a little bit wider. So I'm going to take an angle here. to see how that head piece is coming out from the head and compare it to mine. So when you take an angle, Ideally, you want your arm straight and you want to keep it straight as you go across here to try not to move it. You can see the angles come out that way on the photo reference...”
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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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