Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you some simple but important exercises to understand the concepts of light and shadow. I'll also show you how to create a grayscale and a sphere with different types of shadows. ”

In this video lesson Juan Perednik addresses the topic: How Light and Shadow Work 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion. Learn how to draw expressive portraits by understanding the basics of lighting and the proportions of the human face.

Partial transcription of the video

“How light and shadow work The first thing we are going to do before getting fully into shading is to organize ourselves. This is a gray scale and it will serve us throughout the entire project and the rest of the drawings that we make. to make this scale they have to make a rectangle with five squares inside and they're going to, first of all, shade the darkest one. You can use the darkest pencil you have. In my case, the 8B. Once they have the last square shaded, They're going to leave the first one blank. That's going to be our lightest shade or highest shade. The lightest tones are the h...”

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Course summary for: Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (90)
• 3591 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 8m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration