Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs
Locate the essentials on paper
A course by José Rosero , Visual artist and teacher
About the video: Locate the essentials on paper
Overview
“On A4 paper, vertically, we will draw the basic structure that we already understood in the previous lessons. Here, we will locate with simple geometric figures what the skull and face shape would be. Once the location of this is determined on the paper, we will make the necessary measures to make it a proportionate face. The rules of thirds, the location of nose and mouth eyes and the sizes of each in relation to the head and shoulders will be explained. ”
In this video lesson José Rosero addresses the topic: Locate the essentials on paper, 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
“Locate the essentials on paper All right, I hope you trained with the previous lessons. Already have an important idea about what are the elements in the face, how they are located proportionately in the head and have found the correct gesture of his character, this that represents it the most, Now to make the image of our final project. This lesson is going to be simply to locate the necessary elements to start the final project on paper. I will take the paper that I had already explained to you, It is a paper Fabriano Liscio. Having the reference that I already selected, let's start placi...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Portraits with India Ink and Nibs
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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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