Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“Once the construction drawing is done, we need to identify the shadow areas that create the different planes of the head. We can do this by creating different tonal values to build up the general masses.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Tonal Values, 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

“In this lesson, we are going to use our tonal values to its full extent. So we're going to use light tonal values to represent All that is in dark in our image. And then we're going to add more values to those bigger masses. We're going to eventually introduced some of the other two colors of the composition which is going to be the white chalk, and the red chalk, Leonardo would have used But mostly we're going to use the charcoal, to refine these main masses that we have studied in the lesson before. So let's start analyzing was still missing in terms of masses and placement of the main fe...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 6 units
• 77 lessons (13h 23m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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