Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture
The Digital Composition 1
A course by Graceina Samosir , Artist
About the video: The Digital Composition 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will go over how to use Photoshop to digitally assemble, arrange, and further manipulate the drawings. To get started, I will open up my drawings in Photoshop. Let's go!”
In this video lesson Graceina Samosir addresses the topic: The Digital Composition 1, 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
“ The Digital Composition In this lesson, I'll retouch all the drawings I did. I'll mainly be using Photoshop to edit the scanned images and then form them into a collage. You can use other softwares too as long as the basic tools I'll use are present and function similarly. Let's take a look. As previously mentioned, I'll be using Photoshop to edit all the drawings that I've done. To preface this, you may or may not use a drawing tablet. I have made plenty of collages without the use of a drawing tablet or a Wacom tablet because honestly, the editing phase is just used to lightly enhance t...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing

Graceina Samosir
A course by Graceina Samosir
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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