Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“Here I will show you how to start working on one of the two components that shape my paintings: portraits. I will show you how I look at references, choose one from the mood board, and then you will learn how to draw some sketches to warm up. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Practicing Portraits, 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

“Practicing Portraits In this lesson, I'll show you how we approach portraits using references from Pinterest. Let's open the canvas. And we can just swipe up here and drag Pinterest to the side. So you have your references right in front of you. Let's choose one that we had before. Like this one. And now we can start right away. What I like to do is start with a brighter brush. For example, a yellow. And then I will do a rough sketch of the portrait. I like to start with the face because that's usually where the focal point is in a portrait. What I do first is I draw a circle to suggest whe...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

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

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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