Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide

Overview

“Understanding composition is critical. I'll guide you through the process of choosing images with substantial compositional value and explain why this matters in our work.”

In this video lesson Daphne Frizzle addresses the topic: Composition Basics, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide . Explore painting with Daphne Frizzle! From inspiration to creation, learn essential sketching and painting techniques to enhance your artistic skills..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'm going to be teaching you guys how to translate these images onto our painting surface using the most important factor called composition. Composition is the arrangement of all of the different factors within your painting. It is going to be the layout of everything that you have in your reference image. Composition is a tool, just like your color palette or your value scale. It's a tool to be able to dictate how the viewer moves their eye throughout your composition. The composition is something that can be used for many different things, depending on what it is you are ...”

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Course summary for: Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (19)
• 1400 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 33m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Oil Painting, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching