Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“Let’s start preparing our supports in order to be able to draw just like Leonardo used to. For this, we have to use some of the materials described in the previous lesson. Let’s see how they work on paper!”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Support Preparation 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques. Master pencil portrait techniques focusing on proportions, shading, and facial structure for realistic drawing results.

Partial transcription of the video

“Support Preparation This lesson is about support preparation and we're going to prepare a piece of paper the way Leonardo would've done with the materials of his time. Let's start with a half-size sheet of paper. This is cotton paper. This is the kind of paper Leonardo would've used. We know it lasts the test of time because we have drawings from Leonardo that are more than 500 years old. We can now proceed to part this big piece of paper in two. In order to do that, I like to do it manually and not use any tool. What I do is I fold the paper in two, and I pass my finger a few times on the ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 36 students
• 6 units
• 77 lessons (13h 23m)
• 48 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing