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Drawing Portraits from Photographs Drawing Portraits from Photographs is a 3 1/2 hour instant download workshop presenting a frontal pose of an elderly Balinese woman wearing a headwrap. The workshop employs Wolff's Carbon pencil on Ivory colored Fabriano Ingres drawing paper and takes you from the initial beginnings of the portrait to the concluding touches. Below is the entire second lesson of Drawing Portraits from Photographs. |
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Here's the DVD Workshop Syllabus ... Lesson 1 | Getting Started This first all-important lesson presents setting up your work station for drawing from photographs and how to draw the portrait to a specific size. This is accomplished by learning how to accurately strike the arabesque which is the entire outside shape of the head. Unlike the contour, the arabesque seeks to express the expression and rhythm of the pose. This is a very important skill that any artist who aspires to a high level of competency should acquire. Within Lesson 1 is a training exercise that will teach you to concisely gauge the accuracy of your drawing. Included with your first lesson is the actual photograph that Michael is using in this course. Just download and print it at your local shop. |
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Lesson 2 | The Structural Landmarks of the Face Placing the features and structural landmarks of the face requires a methodology of good drawing practice. Not only does one need to consider the proportions of the features there are also the factors of tilt and expression to be dealt with. |
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Lesson 3 | Building Tone Plasticity is defined as 'giving form to'. Building tone is an additive/substractive process of adding pigment (charcoal or paint, etc.) and manipulating it into succinct and descriptive shapes to render a portrait so that is reads as 3-dimensional. Lesson 3 teaches you how to first block-in your primary light/dark pattern and proceeds to demonstrate step-by-step the layered process of modeling form. Included in this lesson are powerful training tools that will significantly improve your portrait drawing. |
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Lesson 4 | Articulating the Features Accurately placing and articulating the facial features is best accomplished using a methodology that readily relates each feature to the other in terms of proportion, shape and expression. In this lesson Michael shows you how to recognize and correct your drawing errors and also how to push your tonal relationships, all the while building up a 3-dimensional sculptural sensibility to your portrait drawing. Articulating the Features is presented in two parts for easy downloading. Part 1 is 20 minutes and Part 2 is a little over 26 minutes. As with all of our drawing workshops we opt for indepth and intensive training rather than condensing an entire course into only 60 minutes. Each point is thoroughly demonstrated, and balanced with lectures, and animated graphics to reinforce the critical elements of portrait drawing. |
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Lesson 5 | Tonal Development with a Sculptural Sensibility Achieving plausibility in portrait drawing is the first hurdle to be passed. As we learned in Lessons 1 and 2 this is establishing an accurate arabesque and rendering the features into a cohesive and expressive whole that captures the likeness. The second hurdle is more challenging. This is 'breathing life' into the portrait drawing vis-a-vis carving out the form with a sculptural sensibility. Tonal Development with a Sculptural Sensibility is presented in two parts for easy downloading. Part 1 is a little over 17 minutes and Part 2, which concludes with 'finishing' the portrait drawing is 27 minutes.
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