About the video: Prosopography and ethopoeia
Overview
“Many literary rhetorical figures have a visual translation, as we will see in this lesson. We will also see how the size of the human figure within the frame influences some of them, such as prosopography and ethopoeia. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Prosopography and ethopoeia, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Specialization: From Fundamentals to Artistic Expression. Learn creative drawing techniques, unlock your creativity, explore colors and textures, develop artistic confidence..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we are going to see how a couple of literary resources work applied to visual communication. Specifically, we are going to talk about prosopography and ethopoeia. In literature, prosopography is a rhetorical figure which indicates the external description of a character. For example, he was tall, had a beard, light eyes and was corpulent. While the ethopoeia, In contrast, it refers to the moral or internal description of this character. For example, he liked to draw the color blue and anchovy pizza. Let's see how these two literary rhetorical figures can be translated into dr...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Specialization: From Fundamentals to Artistic Expression
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Illustration -
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Creating with Kids, Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

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