About the video: Shading Drawing Portrait of an Old Man
Overview
“In this lesson, Marco Mazzoni will teach you how to create a portrait using the shading technique. You'll start with timed exercises, drawing mini-portraits ranging from two to seven minutes to improve speed and focus. You'll gradually define facial features and shadows by starting with light strokes and adding darker tones. This exercise helps you discover your natural workflow and understand how time affects your drawing process, leading to more dynamic and expressive portraits.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Shading Drawing Portrait of an Old Man , 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
“In this lesson, I will show you how to create a portrait with shading technique. And it is a really interesting technique with a really interesting exercise because we always see faces and it is always interesting to see how we can manage a face with doodling. And I think sometimes these create great portrait. A useful tip, I think, but maybe it's only my opinion, is to always use at the beginning an elder man's face because he has a lot of wrinkles and you can create wrong things inside the face without having the problem of the skin. The more wrinkles the face has, the easier it will be t...”
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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
