Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“To end this unit, I will teach you about the importance of tonal values when it comes to lights and shadows.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows, 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

“Lights and Shadows In this lesson, I will teach you about light and shadow. We will do that by discovering tonal values. The exercise is to represent a 3D object on a bidimensional surface. This is the key to everything we will draw from now on. The artists of the Renaissance, to represent the illusion of a 3D object on a bidimensional surface, we used the concept of tonal values. Tonal values will go from the lightest light of the brightest day to the darkest dark of the darkest night. Considering that, we can create a scale of values that go from light to dark. To represent the sphere, we...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

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

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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