Expressive Monochromatic Oil Portraits

Overview

“In this lesson I will talk about the composition through a stain made with Chinese ink. This will be the base and what will define the strength of the image, so it will be a crucial stage of the process. We will also choose the reference portrait.”

In this video lesson Gustavo Velasco addresses the topic: The composition, 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

“The composition welcome to this lesson where I am going to show you how we make the composition for our final project. Previously we already studied the portrait in a more formal, more academic way. We studied its plans, some of its anatomy and structure, and now we are going to start with the perhaps most fun part of this process, What is the experimentation part? and where we are going to discover how to make our composition. For this I am going to show you some of the sketches that I have made with Chinese ink and that have served as an idea for some compositions of my works. Here we hav...”

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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