Caricature Portrait with Graphite
Drawing the muscles
A course by Víctor Vélez , Caricature Artist
About the video: Drawing the muscles
Overview
“Now we will see the muscles that make up a face, in order to understand the origin of some forms that cause the lights and shadows of our face. ”
In this video lesson Víctor Vélez addresses the topic: Drawing the muscles, which is part of the Domestika online course: Caricature Portrait with Graphite. Learn to depict people and capture their essence through a caricature portrait.
Partial transcription of the video
“We already saw how to draw a skull. Now let's see how in this illustration the skull is covered with the muscular system. This drawing is made to present you say how there is nothing more structured muscles. It is not necessary to learn the muscles in a scientific or medical way, but it is important to know how to structure a muscle and how important it is. Given the fact that we sometimes say that a prominence comes from the muscle. Let's say there are characters that the mouth is most prominent or the eyes or the eyebrows. There are people who do not have absolutely no fat on their skin a...”
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Course summary for: Caricature Portrait with Graphite
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Víctor Vélez
A course by Víctor Vélez
Víctor Vélez is a caricature artist from Mexico City with more than three decades of experience in the industry. He published his first piece at the age of 16, launching a long-term collaboration with El Universal, one of the biggest newspapers in Mexico. He has also collaborated with other major publications such as El Economista, La Jornada, and Reforma. He is currently a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico, specifically in the field of graphic narrative.
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