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 portrait techniques focusing on proportions, shading, and facial structure for realistic drawing results.

Partial transcription of the video

“This lesson is about support preparation, and we're going to prepare a piece of paper the way Leonardo would have 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 have used. We know it lasts the test of time because we have drawings from Leonardo that are more than 500 years old, and we can now proceed parting this bigger piece of paper in two. So in order to do that, I like to... do it manually and not to use any tool. What I do is I fold the paper in two. and with my finger, I pass it. a few t...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 1003 students
• 6 units
• 77 lessons (13h 23m)
• 48 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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