Specialization in Portrait Techniques: Traditional to Digital

Overview

“Next, you will learn how to interpret tonal values using the schematic drawing, ready to address form and space. My attention will be centered on illustrating the use of value to search for and describe specific surfaces of the head in space.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Interpretive Values 1, 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 the previous lesson, we looked at the schematic and how to build something that reflects what you see observationally. In this lesson, we're going to talk about interpreting the values using that schematic. So let's focus now on this area here. and look back and forth for a minute. We've got an angle. We've got a pattern, a pattern of value. And what we're saying with this angle And what we're saying with the kind of neighborhood of angles is that there's quite a bit of foreshortening. So our job now is to use the optical boundary. and connect that to the other passages of the form. And ...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 150 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