Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture

Introducing My Drawings and Collage Work

A course by Graceina Samosir , Artist

Artist. Ottawa, Canada.
Joined March 2022
96% positive reviews (53)
2,310 students
Audio: English
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About the video: Introducing My Drawings and Collage Work

Overview

“Let me show you some of my drawings! This varied body of work consists of brush pen and chalk pastel drawings, which we will be mainly doing in this course, as well as a series of wax pencil drawings.”

In this video lesson Graceina Samosir addresses the topic: Introducing My Drawings and Collage Work, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture. Learn how to illustrate an artistic collage filled with detail and movement by exploring a variety of drawing techniques including charcoal, chalk, and ink.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Introducing My Drawings and Collage Work In this lesson, I want to show you a compilation of drawings I did recently using a brush pen and chalk pastel on different types of paper. They're like this for study purposes, but these are separate sheets of paper. They're all copy paper. You can tell that I have drawn the same subject repeatedly. They're different iterations of the same thing. Here, I have different accents or points of color. There is some of that white chalk pastel going on here to create that gradation with the gray, the dark areas, the lighter areas, and then the brighter a...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture

  • Level: Beginner
  • 96% positive reviews (53)
  • 2310 students
  • 4 units
  • 20 lessons (4h 20m)
  • 11 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing

Graceina Samosir

Graceina Samosir
A course by Graceina Samosir

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Graceina Samosir is a professional artist and illustrator based in Ottawa, Canada. She majored in fine/visual arts in Colombia and Canada, during which time she regularly shared her projects online, which led to her selling her first piece of art.

Since then, Graceina’s work has been showcased in fourteen exhibitions, including her first solo exhibition in 2018. Her illustrations have been featured in magazines including Art House Press, El Malpensante, and InCorrecto, and she sells private commissions through her website. She also shares her work with over 26K followers on Instagram.


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Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture. Illustration course by Graceina Samosir

Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture

A course by Graceina Samosir
Artist. Ottawa, Canada.
Joined March 2022
  • 96% positive reviews (53)
  • 2,310 students