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

Partial transcription of the video

“Tonal Values In this lesson, we're going to use our tonal values to their full extent. We're going to use light tonal values to represent all that is in dark in our image. Then, we're going to add more values to those bigger masses. We're going to eventually introduce the other two colors of the composition, which is going to be the white chalk and the red chalk that Leonardo would have used, but mostly, we'll use the charcoal to refine these main masses that we've studied in the previous lesson. Let's start analyzing what's still missing in terms of masses and placement of the main feature...”

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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