Stage 3 - Refining The Drawing - Real Time
Stage 3 - Refining The Drawing - Real Time
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Classical Portraiture Techniques and Concepts

Portrait Drawing(6 Lessons)
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Stage 3 - Refining The Drawing - Real Time

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Stage 3 - Refining The Drawing - Real Time

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Assignment

Stage 3: Finishing a drawing is a part of the process that tests the quality of all of the other stages. The design and the values and transitions are getting refined and subtle and can risk to lose their sense of structure. It is for this reason that we will stick to applying the fundamental lessons that were described in the first two stages but in a tighter way. The shapes we will use to describe to planes of the features should stay distinct and unified. Your assignment in this moment of the drawing is to assess the big picture. Are the shadows and lights distinct from each other? Are the edges of your halftone shapes soft enough? Is the hierarchy of values organized so that the lightest planes appear to be filled with light? These are the questions that we will have to answer in this final stage.

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Marco Sordi
2023/1/1. Good evening everybody. Here's my assignment for the first part of @Stephen Bauman's Classical Portraiture course. Thanks for any comment or suggestion that could help me to improve it.
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Stephen Bauman
Careful of the uniformity of your transitional edges. Many of the shadow edges, for instance, could be much softer.
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Rose Bernatovich
Beautifully done! Great start to the new year!
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Perce
Very beautiful indeed!
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Jo Sheridan
Hi Stephen, I think she might be finished... what do you think?
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Jo Sheridan
Yay! Thanks Stephen - this feels like praise indeed - I've now got a big grin on my face... I love this feedback thing! Thanks for the course so far.
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Stephen Bauman
Great effort here, Jo!
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Jo Sheridan
I have scanned this, and am not happy with the way the highlight looks on her forehead - its got more subtlety in "real-life"... I guess here is another lesson for me to work out the best way to scan/take a photo of a drawing...
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