Guided Course: Illustrate a Face Using Chiaroscuro Technique
Chiaroscuro (Black & White) - Practice
A guided course by Marco Mazzoni , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Chiaroscuro (Black & White) - Practice
Overview
“In this lesson I will start drawing with Chiaroscuro. I will show you some tricks to improve the effects on the face.”
In this video lesson Marco Mazzoni addresses the topic: Chiaroscuro (Black & White) - Practice, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Illustrate a Face Using Chiaroscuro Technique. Master chiaroscuro techniques and color layering to create expressive, depth-rich portraits using pencil and color harmony.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, i spoke about the The theoretical part of the Kjell's School, now we start with the practical part. I have this kind of face and I will work inside the drawing to create the perfect shapes and the perfect shadows. A face is a skull with a flesh. When you think about skull, your shadows inside the face are better. For example. if you think about the hole that you have in the school and you draw a track of him inside the drawing it will be more easy to draw the shadows of the eyes. In a hole there are different shadows. If I think about the skull, I can understand. where t...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Illustrate a Face Using Chiaroscuro Technique
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Artistic Drawing, Colored Pencil Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Marco Mazzoni
A guided course by Marco Mazzoni
Marco Mazzoni’s passion for drawing began at the age of five, when he would sketch on any piece of paper he could find while waiting for his father to finish work at the paper mill. Experimenting with the boundaries of fine art has been a passion of Marco’s since he was a student. His artwork tells a compelling story, drawing inspiration from Sardinian mysticism and the plants and animals he sketched as a child.
Marco’s recent achievements include working on an illustrated version of the Hans Christian Andersen classic Poucette for the French publishing house Albin Michel Jeunesse, where he takes the reader on a captivating journey through his use of color and texture. His work is also exhibited in galleries and museums across Europe and North America.
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