Overview
Explore advanced figure drawing techniques and composition in this 37-minute video tutorial featuring artist Stephen Bauman. Delve into the nuances of line quality, shading, and style while observing Bauman's sketchbook tour. Learn how to incorporate influences from multiple artists into your own unique drawing style and gain insights from analyzing past sketches. Discover tips for blocking basic shapes, establishing light and shadow impressions, organizing halftones, and developing head structure and planes. Enhance your portraiture skills and graphite pencil techniques through this comprehensive demonstration, which serves as a mini-course in realistic portrait drawing from a live model.
Syllabus
Intro
Sketch Tour
Line Quality
Hatching
Graphite
Exercise
Composition
Portraiture
Drawing
Taught by
Proko