Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to add smaller color areas and start sculpting the portrait form. We will consider the relationships between light and shadow. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Sculpting the Volume, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting Techniques Specialization. Master oil painting techniques to create expressive portraits, surreal landscapes, and photorealistic effects using varied materials.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we'll be adding smaller planes to the face. We'll also be adding a bit more variation between the light and the shadow tones. As you can see, we have only added the light shape and the shadow shape. Actually, there's a lot more happening in the reference photo. If you think about where the light is coming, it's going to come from here. And so this area and this area are going to be the planes that are catching most of the light. This means that there's going to be an area on the forehead and on the cheek that are not going to have light as strong as on the other parts. I thi...”

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Course summary for: Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
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• 2430 students
• 7 units
• 100 lessons (20h 58m)
• 26 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing