Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture

Overview

“Once you've finished cleaning up your drawing, it will be time to progress to the next steps. I will walk you through how to approach these steps in this lesson. You will first need to adjust and format your collage according to the parameters of the platform on which you will showcase your work. ”

In this video lesson Graceina Samosir addresses the topic: The Digital Composition 2, 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 Now that I've done cleaning up the individual drawings, I'll create a new file where I can drop these two drawings, and compose an image out of the two. Adjust and format your collages to the parameters of the platform on which you'll be showcasing your work. In the case of Instagram, I want to show it as a vertical post. The vertical post on Instagram has a 4:5 ratio. The 4:5 Instagram ratio is equivalent to the Portrait mode that's 8 x 10 inches in Photoshop. You can adjust the ratio in the middle of editing with the Crop Tool over here. Instagram has the square ...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Gesture Drawing and Portraiture

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (53)
• 2311 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (4h 20m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing