About the video: Introduction
Overview
“During the Renaissance, perspective revolutionized art by introducing depth and realism, especially with the discovery of the vanishing point by Filippo Brunelleschi in Florence. Although mastering perspective improves technical skills, especially for rotating objects, it is not essential for all artistic styles. Artists often manipulate or ignore the strict rules of perspective to prioritize creative expression. With this module, we hope you will find it easy to understand how to use it in your drawings.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..
Partial transcription of the video
“Like most major advances in art and science, the use of perspective as a painting technique began to develop during the Renaissance in the 15th century. Before this period, medieval artworks lacked depth and realistic proportion, although perspective was represented based on the size according to the importance of the subject. I feel that illustration is not about depicting reality, but more about being able to draw perfect perspective isn't very important. It's nice to know the basic rules, but I often don't use them or I flip them around. If you're able to take a box and rotate it in pers...”
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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization
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Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
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Areas
- Architectural Illustration
- Artistic Drawing
- Botanical Illustration
- Character Design
- Children's Illustration
- Colored Pencil Drawing
- Creativity
- Drawing
- Figure Drawing
- Fine Arts
- Gouache Painting
- Ink Illustration
- Naturalistic Illustration
- Pencil Drawing
- Portrait Drawing
- Realistic Drawing
- Sketching
- Traditional illustration
- Watercolor Painting
