From ArtistsNetwork.TV: In this video, professional artist Joy Thomas reveals classical drawing secrets while teaching foolproof composition skills for a structured beginning.
Working your way through a portrait study from life, you will learn a number of techniques to improve your confidence and create a realistic likeness using massing techniques that establish form with a minimal use of line.
Develop your own skills as you watch this award-winning portrait artist explain and demonstrate comparative measuring, simplified shape-maps, the use of plumb lines and how to identify and correct mistakes.
While this unique drawing demonstration is a must see for portrait painters, it contains a wealth of valuable information for all artists of all genres. See the whole video at http://www.ArtistsNetwork.TV !
Duration : 0:3:25
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March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
hha this suck i …
hha this suck i TOTALLY AGREED AKABRADY!!!!!!!! guess all of it .. like .. how did you get the right lines before video beginned?
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
This seems like a …
This seems like a very awkward and complicated way to go about drawing a portrait, or anything for that matter. And it seems very open to guess work which the beginning artist with no training would make bad guesses at.
If you really want to learn how to draw go look up Andrew Loomis’s books as an excellent place to start.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
gestalt
A …
gestalt
A configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
Basically, she is trying to say all of the shadows and lights of the face of the model as if they were one thing.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
we are looking for …
we are looking for the gheshWHAT??
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Thank you Miss …
Thank you Miss Thomas. Gleaned some ideas from your vid.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
She shows the basic …
She shows the basic principles in getting about values, such as light and shadow and getting the proportions right . Excellent example. Thank you.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
good…
good…
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
WHAT KIND OF PAPER …
WHAT KIND OF PAPER AND EASEL DO YOU USE?
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Would be nice if …
Would be nice if you make your own video with your method.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
i think its not …
i think its not best way to make a portrait
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
nice
nice