Portrait Drawing, Foundation and Practice cod 273
Friday, 07/12/2024 - 08/16/2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Number of Lessons: 6
This course is specifically designed to give the students interested in portraiture, a solid foundation on the subject and practice a variety of portrait techniques.
During the six-3 hour sessions of this online course, we will create a number of portrait drawings working from photos of casts and models, both male and female in a variety of dry media and techniques: graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, Conte crayons, reduction technique, Trois Crayon technique, pen and ink with water media washes.
We will also study the essential structural and anatomical aspects of the human head and face, measuring techniques, tonal rendering, effects of light on form, correct positioning of the facial features and their structural characteristics, a very important foundation for all the artists interested in portraiture, independently from style or technique they will use.
The students will also be encouraged to work from life preparing self-portraits or portraits of family and friends as homework assignment, continuing practicing the techniques studied in class and further develop technical skills. We will also do a few copies of drawings by Old Masters, to study and practice their techniques.
The techniques we will practice during the course include those that are traditionally used for portraiture to obtain a good level of realism and detail but also quick preliminary sketches to study subject and composition, utilizing also modern approaches and materials such as markers, ballpoint pen and so on.
Materials:
Kneaded eraser, pencil sharpener, sand paper.
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