Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
Materials and Tools
A course by Dan Thompson, Artist and Teacher
About the video: Materials and Tools
Overview
“In this lesson, I will provide the necessary preparations to start drawing by establishing a series of pencil and paper grades to follow. I will describe why they have been selected for this course and show you how to use and care for them well. ”
In this video lesson Dan Thompson addresses the topic: Materials and Tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture. Learn how to use structural forms with multiple planes to create experimental pencil portraits from observation of the human figure.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, I talked about my influences and inspirations. In this lesson, I want to talk to you about the materials that you'll need for this course. I want to start with my paper. which is called Strathmore 400 Series. drawing paper. It's 18 by 24 inches. and I'll be clipping it to a drawing board using office clamps like this. so it stays flat. I'm going to place about two or three sheets under the original sheet. And I'm going to use it landscape format. I like this paper because it has a nice medium texture and it's acid free. so it takes graphite very well. Now let's talk abou...”
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Course summary for: Graphite Drawing Techniques for Planar Portraiture
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Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching
Dan Thompson
A course by Dan Thompson
Dan Thompson is an artist and educator from Virginia, U.S. with over 20 years of experience in his field. He first discovered a love of art through making band posters and later studied for an MFA at the Graduate School of Figurative Art. Passionate about human anatomy and perspective, as well as educating others, he went on to found two art schools of his own in New York.
Dan currently serves as dean of fine arts at Studio Incamminati, as well as the faculty chair of the one-year certificate of fine arts program at the New York Academy of Art. He has been awarded two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting on multiple occasions. In 2001, he also won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work can be found in both public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.
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