Draw Realistic Pencil Portraits - Basic Techniques To Help You Learn
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
This class will teach you how to draw beautiful realistic pencil portraits.
After taking this class, you will gain technical knowledge and you will also know how to apply this knowledge into action! You will be presented with unique exercises that will help you to advance with your skills even further.
You will learn:
- Which materials you are most likely to need and how to use them
- The basics of facial measurements and facial anatomy
- The basics on how to see the face as three dimensional with the help of shapes, shading and facial planes
- How to construct the eye, nose, and lips from scratch
- How to render a portrait using a photo reference from measuring to the last detail
Those are the most important anatomical landmarks I would say. Don't be so concerned about knowing it's names etc, however, focus more on locating those on the actual face. For example, try to observe the cheekbones on a person. If they're smiling, can you see the dimple etc.
If you're a complete beginner, you don't have to be concerned about advanced anatomy. Try to understand the facial measurements, shapes and shading first.
Loomis's Head Planes
Those are for you as guidelines to study from. Study those as much as you can, keep finding the individual planes on the faces. Learn how to shade them as well.
All the materials I’ve used:
Mars Lumograph Pencils
Staedtler Noris HB Pencil
Strathmore Drawing 400 Series paper
Rotring 600 Mechanical Pencil
Mono Zero Eraser
Opinel No.06 Knife
Blending Stumps, Sand Papers and Putty Eraser
Books which helped me a great deal:
Vilppu Drawing Manual
Drawing The Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis
Drawing Light and Shade by Giovanni Civardi
Free reference pages:
Unsplash
Pixabay
Pexels
The reference I've used in this video comes from: k8_iv
Music from: Epidemic Sound
Planes image from: RapidFireArt
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Supplies and how to use them
- Basic measurements and anatomical landmarks
- Shapes, planes and shading
- The eye
- The Nose
- The Lips
- Drawing from the reference pt 1
- Drawing from the reference pt 2
- Drawing from the reference pt 3
- Excersises
- Conclusion
Taught by
Helena Praxová
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