Specialization in Portrait Techniques: Traditional to Digital

Overview

“In this lesson, I will begin working with tone and demonstrate how to establish shadow shapes and half-tones using pastels, a brush, and a paper towel. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Massing-in the Shadows and Toning the Paper, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Portrait Techniques: Traditional to Digital. Master portrait techniques from graphite to digital, creating expressive, professional artworks across various media styles.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, i will begin working with tone using a brush, a paper towel, and a pastel to tone the paper and establish the shadows. So let's get started. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to load my brush with the pastel. The way I do it is by just rubbing the fibers of the brush into the Pan Pastel and that creates a powder over the surface. What I want to be careful about is to not overload the brush. So the next step with this, This tea is It's a crap piece of paper. Just to test how much of the pastel is actually in the brush. And then you see that some of the pastel resid...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Portrait Techniques: Traditional to Digital

• Level: Beginner
• 144 students
• 6 units
• 83 lessons (16h 8m)
• 17 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Digital Illustration, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Typography, Watercolor Painting