Expressive Monochromatic Oil Portraits

Overview

“Finally, I will talk to you about what tonal values are and we will analyze the light and shadow parts in an object. In this way, we can apply everything we have learned in the following units.”

In this video lesson Gustavo Velasco addresses the topic: Light and shadow, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Monochromatic Oil Portraits. Learn the technique of monochromatic oils and create expressive portraits that capture the power of your gestures and the quality of the materials.

Partial transcription of the video

“Light and shadow Now I will tell you about the importance of light and shadow in our portrait and we are going to study the parts of light and shadow applied to a sphere. First, what we have to do is understand what are the light zones and what are the shadow zones in our object. For this we are going to look for a line that works as a border between two territories. Let's imagine that there is a territory that belongs to the light and a territory is shaded. Between these two territories there is a border, there is a line. This line usually is the darkest of, in this case our sphere, and we...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Monochromatic Oil Portraits

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (82)
• 2856 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 25m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Portrait Drawing