Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson we’ll apply some marks to see what the pastels can do. We’ll develop a library of different mark types and learn a bit about manipulating those.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Mark Making, 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

“Mark Making In this lesson, we'll look at the pastels in more depth to develop marks and a library of different marks for you to use in the production phase. First, we'll take the soft pastel, and crush it slightly. You can see a bit more about how it's made up, how it behaves on the surface. You see here, the powder from the compressed form breaks down, and that's how it sits on the surface. You begin to see here, how much of this medium, we call this medium when it's on the surface, how much of this medium will sit on the paper. In this case, it won't be much as it's the A4 disposable cop...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

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

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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