Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
Basic Head Structure and Lighting
A course by Anetta Lukjanova , Visual artist
About the video: Basic Head Structure and Lighting
Overview
“Once you have your workspace set up, it's time to get drawing! In this lesson, you will learn how to replicate the general head structure and see how lighting affects it. ”
In this video lesson Anetta Lukjanova addresses the topic: Basic Head Structure and Lighting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture. Learn to build your creative expression and apply it to the process of representational portrait painting .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will go through the basic head structure and how to light it. Even though anatomy in expressive portraits doesn't necessarily have to be the main concern, it's good to always check the base form if your painting feels somehow unnatural. To make any lighting seem believable, we need to pay attention to two things. Making sure we know which planes catch the light and having variation in the edges of where the light and shadow meet. We will speak about edge control a little later. Let's start with analyzing the main planes. There are a few ways to build up the head structure...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Portrait Drawing
Anetta Lukjanova
A course by Anetta Lukjanova
Annetta Lukjanova is a visual artist specializing in contemporary figurative realism. Drawing from the classically trained old masters of oil painting, her work is technical. However, with digital tools and current subjects, her pieces have a modern edge. She has painted outdoor murals in Finland, Australia, Spain, Norway, and Russia and worked with Sealife Helsinki, mural producers UPEArt and B-murals, musicians Vesta and Jukio Kallio, and Stenograffia and Spraykancontrol Festivals.
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