Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing
Face
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Face
Overview
“Now we will learn the main elements and muscles that affect human features. We will see resources and analysis exercises to be able to draw a face efficiently and credibly.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Face, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing. Learn how to observe and depict the human figure with exercises to develop your style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Face Now we will see the main and organizational structures that make a face in the human figure of the model, of the photography that we worked previously or the one that we develop. For this it is important, in principle, to understand the bone structure that organizes those muscles that we'll see. For that it is important to first understand the orbits where the eyes will meet. Here is a common mistake, which is to put the nostril below this line and actually it's just above. There begins the nose, not the nose, but the hole in the bone structure. Here we have the zygomatic bone, this bo...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching

Leonardo Gauna
A course by Leonardo Gauna
Leonardo Gauna is an illustrator with more than a decade of experience who lives in the city of La Plata, Argentina. He has illustrated for a variety of media outlets, institutions, agencies, and galleries, and has traveled across the world to present artistic and educational projects in cities like Tokyo, Toronto, Paris, Belo Horizonte, Prague, and Houston, among others.
In 2014, the publisher TASCHEN featured his work in the book Illustration Now 5! Leonardo has published 12 books and his latest is a collection of his illustrations. He currently teaches workshops and courses and does research on virtual reality, which was the topic of his thesis for his degree in fine arts from the La Plata National University.
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