Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
Reference Images and Initial Sketch
A course by Amy Dover , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Reference Images and Initial Sketch
Overview
“Let’s get started! We will first sketch out the image you plan to draw for the course project to get the proportions correct. I will also talk about finding the right reference image. ”
In this video lesson Amy Dover addresses the topic: Reference Images and Initial Sketch, 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
“In this lesson, i will choose my reference image and we will start sketching. So the image I have chosen is a panda. So this is a panda that I met in Shanghai Zoo. So I tend to draw from animals that I've met in real life. And this is my own photograph. So you can draw from this if you like, but you can also draw from your own photographs. but do bear in mind copyright. So if you draw from somebody else's photograph and it looks like a duplicate of that, you can be in trouble for plagiarism. So a really good example is a very famous artist called Shepard Fairey, also known as Obey. He did a...”
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Course summary for: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
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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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