Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs
Special features
A course by José Rosero , Visual artist and teacher
About the video: Special features
Overview
“Before launching the final drawing, it is necessary to choose the main gesture that will represent the character. This gesture must be characteristic but not caricatural. The idea is to look for the expression that can best describe the person we are drawing without exaggerating the trait.”
In this video lesson José Rosero addresses the topic: Special features, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs. Learn to interpret, draw and add personality to a subject from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Special features I hope you could practice what I taught you in the previous lessons and have a little more idea on how to make face elements and proportions. Now what I'm going to show you is how to choose the right gesture according to the character they have selected to draw. For that I will return to the images again I picked up on the computer in the past lessons. According to this, we will see what is the best gesture for the character. We come from doing the research with the images of Clarice. We saw several images and videos. From there I downloaded these seven images, which have d...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
José Rosero
A course by José Rosero
José Rosero is a visual artist and teacher. His job is to approach the image from different points. He is now the director of CASATINTA, a space dedicated to workshops, exhibitions, and events around the visual arts. He also coordinates the Fig. International Congress of Illustration, of which seven versions have already been made in FILBO (2011-2017).
He has made several exhibitions, conferences, and workshops based on his own research participating in different events in Colombia and in other countries such as Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile.
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