Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture

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
• 95% positive reviews (56)
• 2390 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (4h 20m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing