Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“Now, we will create the main structure for the drawing with construction lines that can be helpful to define where our main masses will go.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Gesture and Drawing Structure, 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

“Gesture and Drawing Structure In this phase of the final project, we're going to analyze the gesture and start our drawing structure of the head. This is important to find every single element of the portrait and put it on the paper, again, looking at proportions the way Leonardo would've looked at them and also considering the position of the reference picture of your choice. If the head is tilted somehow and it's not standing still like this. If it turns down or if it turns up, we have to take that into consideration based on the ideal proportions of the head. In this case, we said that w...”

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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