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Chiaroscuro Creative Portrait with Pencils

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Overview

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Revisit a classical method to breathe new life into your drawings
  • Introduction
  • Preparation
  • Chiaroscuro and Basic Colour
  • Colours
  • Final project
Mastering the use of color and contrast in creative portraits is key to transmitting the story behind your drawings. Marco Mazzoni is an expert when it comes to evoking emotion in his work, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and classical techniques, such as Chiaroscuro.

In this course, Marco will teach you how to convey the tone of your work by walking you through the use of Chiaroscuro in pencil portraits and sharing his step by step coloring method.

Syllabus

  • Introduction (About Me)
  • Influences
  • What We Will Do on the Course
  • The Importance of Sketching
  • Planning the Portrait: Conceptualization and Choice of Elements
  • Composition + Basic Lines
  • Chiaroscuro (Black & White) - Theory
  • Chiaroscuro (Black & White) - Practice
  • Second Colour Base
  • Itten Circle and Optional Choice of Colours
  • Applying First Colour
  • Applying Second Colour
  • Applying Finishing Touches
  • Creative portraying with pencils

Taught by

Marco Mazzoni

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