Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson we’ll be attempting to make the drawing work by tying the shapes together with tone and texture”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Making an Image Work as a Piece, 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

“Making an Image Work as a Piece In this lesson, we'll attempt to pull together the various aspects of the portrait, the image, the drawing, by using texture and tone. I'll be brash and lay in some of this larger dark tone. For this, I won’t commit fully, but I'll use something a bit darker to lay in. You can see this tonal shape here. Probably not started in the right place with this, so I’ll take that out. I do want to get this in the right place. It slides down across. It is quite a defining shape. It goes all the way down over the band across the eyebrow, and across the corner of the eye...”

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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