Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
Proportions
A course by Amy Dover , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Proportions
Overview
“This lesson is all about getting everything in its right place. I will teach you traditional and contemporary techniques for drawing with accurate proportions, whether that's an object in real life or a photograph.”
In this video lesson Amy Dover addresses the topic: Proportions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil. Learn to draw realistic creatures by exploring traditional and contemporary techniques to create detailed pencil sketches.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Proportions In this lesson, we'll use an object and a photograph to learn how to draw in proportion. Here I have a crow’s skull, which is very light and a bit delicate. We will look at how to draw this in proportions. It's quite dirty, but sometimes the dirt is handy for figuring out where things go. The biggest mistake people make when they draw things in proportion is they try and draw the outline. That is where it can go horribly wrong. You want to look at the shapes that are in it, the negative space around it, and where things are in proximity. Proximity will be the key in this lesso...”
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Course summary for: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Amy Dover
A course by Amy Dover
Amy Dover is a UK-based artist and illustrator specializing in drawing our animal friends. She has worked as an artist for 14 years, has had her work exhibited internationally, and has collaborated with international animal charity organizations. Amy is a practice-based Ph.D. student at the School of Arts and Culture, Newcastle University, and has a master’s from Edinburgh College of Art. She also works as a senior academic at MIMA School of Art and Design at Teesside University.
Amy has recently been creating work on the human impact on endangered species and the sixth mass extinction, hoping to raise this as a critical concern. In addition to her activism and academia, she also works as a commercial illustrator in design, advertising, and publishing. Her clients include Target, Urban Outfitters, Redbull, The Royal Ballet, Barbour, Sperry Top-sider, Beels & Co, ThinkSpace, and many others.
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