
Learn portrait construction with constructed lines to place features with proper proportions, using key points to align eyes, nose, and lips through facial anatomy.
Continue with the second painting layer, focusing on the nose by visualizing its three-dimensional planes and anatomy: bones, cartilage, and muscles, and applying color accurately for diverse sexes and races.
Explore essential facial anatomy for oil portraiture, focusing on the cheek and front regions, orbital areas, cheekbones, labial features, and how the frontal structure shapes expression through shading.
Learn to add color to the background of a portrait, balancing blues, purples, white and yellow tones, without copying the reference, while keeping the face focused.
The oil portrait technique is possibly one of the most difficult pictorial techniques to master.
For over 500 years artists have designed thousands of ways to solve the 3 basic problems of a portrait in oil.
the line
the values of the shadows
and the colors of the skin
There are many techniques but, we can divide them into 2 types,
those that work by layers and those that work directly.
the first is known as "Glazing Tecnic" and the second as "A la prima".
In this course we are going to focus on the first, we will learn how to work by layers. and we will discover not only how to apply the different steps, But we will try to learn the principles behind these steps in a simple and concrete way.