Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
Understanding Anatomy
A course by Alai Ganuza , Visual Artist, Painter, and Illustrator
About the video: Understanding Anatomy
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to talk to you about anatomy in a simple way so that you can easily understand what you want to draw. I will use as an example some paintings of nose, mouth and ear.”
In this video lesson Alai Ganuza addresses the topic: Understanding Anatomy, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits. Learn to make expressive brushstrokes with colorful oil paint to bring portraits to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Understanding Anatomy Now we'll see how to understand anatomy, the anatomical parts. I am going to give you three examples so that we can see how the body works without necessarily having to know a lot about anatomy. If you want to learn classical anatomy, however, I will recommend two books I really like by two different authors so you can see how the human body works. Let's try to look at it objectively, without knowing any anatomy. It’s OK to not know anything. Let's see what the image tells us. So we know that the eyeball is here, this whole white part that we see, and inside we have th...”
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Course summary for: Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
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Alai Ganuza
A course by Alai Ganuza
Although her feet were firmly on the path towards a career in sciences, Alai Ganuza decided to pursue her passion for painting and, in 2020, she earned a degree in fine arts with a major in painting from the Universidad del País Vasco. Her work seeks to pay tribute to everyday life with a unique use of light, color, and expressive brushstrokes.
Alai began sharing her projects on social media each day via Instagram Reels, IGTV, and YouTube, creating a growing demand for her content. It was through these channels that she found herself transitioning naturally to content creation with an informative approach showing how painting can be fast, fresh, and open to everyone.
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