Specialization in Portrait Techniques: Traditional to Digital

Overview

“Now I’m going to teach you the methods of rendering the face where you will apply values such as shadows, highlights, and blending. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Blocking Major Values, 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 now that our line structure is in a good place, feeling confident, really happy with it, In this lesson, we're going to go ahead and jump into the rendering for the final project, starting with blocking in the major values. So now that we have our line structure ready, We're gonna jump in with shadows first. Always work dark to light. When you block in your shadows, what you wanna think about again is that five value grid and making sure that you establish that, what we call the two value contrast. Do your shadows feel dark enough to contrast the light? Also to keep in mind that they nee...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 315 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