Mastering-Portrait-Drawing-3-Advanced Techniques.mp4

Mastering Portrait Drawing 3: Advanced Techniques & Considerations. A new release from Artacademy.com A compelling portrait is much more than just another pretty face. Portraits of dreamy, at times, melancholic youths present an easy aesthetic that has an universal appeal. But for the artist who strives for deeper meaning in their work, depictions of pretty faces can soon become a vapid exercise. Portraits that move and stay with us are those that tell a story and connect us with a shared humanity. The best works are those that present both monumental descriptions of form and an empathetic treatment of character and personality. Mastering Portrait Drawing 3: Advanced Techniques & Considerations pursues this discourse of portraiture using sanguine conte. My subject is a lively, life-tested woman captured in a candid glance. It is a momentary pose whose transience speak volumes of an easy, somewhat lubricated, social engagement. But there are challenges here. Foremost is the casual gesture that is underpinned by the convex facial angle and the immediacy of an inquisitive gaze through a pair of glasses -- that must be rendered so that they sit naturally on the face without drawing unwarranted attention -- and buttressed by the anatomical structures of a broad smile. The whole of this expression is incumbent on all of the forms working effortlessly as a single unit. Our goal as artists is to seamlessly marry craft and emotion. In this four hour DVD workshop I comprehensively discuss and demonstrate the entire step-by-step process of drawing an expressive portrait in sanguine conte from its initial beginning to completion.