Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion

Overview

“Now I'm going to debunk some myths and preconceptions about the face—eyes, nose, mouth—and show you how to bring all the light and shadow work you did in the first part of this lesson into a more complex organic shape.”

In this video lesson Juan Perednik addresses the topic: How Light and Shadow Work 2, 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 Now we are going to see how the lights and shadows are applied in eyes, nose and mouth. Let's see what we think the eyes, nose and mouth look like. They will see that what we think is very different or they taught us as kids what there really is. I am an industrial designer and one of the first exercises they made me do was: they told all the students to "draw a table". Automatically we all draw a table with four legs and then they explained to us that this was our preconception or what we had as imaginary of the table. The reality is very different. There are tabl...”

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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