Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

Overview

“Now that you have a rough sketch, it’s time for you to learn how to clean up those lines. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: A Clean Portrait, 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

“A Clean Portrait Alright, now that we have the rough sketch, we want to clean them up. So first we want to look at the rough sketch and size it up a little bit. We already want to determine what the composition of this piece will be. So I want the portrait to be kind of the focal point of everything. This is a good start. You can always change it later on, but for now I like this one. Again, we reduce the opacity to about 50%. I like to start with the clean outlines. So we select a darker color, which is in this case a brown. And then I simply trace everything that I feel like is important ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Artistic Portrait Drawing Techniques

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

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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