Specialization in Portrait Techniques: Traditional to Digital

Overview

“I will show some techniques and exercises to get more familiarized with the materials.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Techniques and Exercises with Oil Pastel and Graphite 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

“So to get you more familiarized with the tools and materials, in this lesson, I'm going to be doing some quick exercises in graphite and oil pastel to show you some of their unique qualities. So starting off with my mechanical pencil here, I'm going to do a value grid and a value gradient. From there I'm also going to draw a kind of realistic sphere to show you some blending techniques and to show you some ways to apply oil pastel over a rendered graphite image. So the first thing I'm going to do is just draw A quick... five-value scale. Five values, I would say, is the minimum values neede...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 143 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