Portrait Drawing: Master Techniques with Nathaniel Skousen Video Download

Description

Refine the art of portrait drawing in this video featuring the work of Nathaniel Skousen, master portrait artist. Creating dynamic, lifelike, and expressive portraits is simplified, breaking Nathaniel’s process into three key elements: Design, Dimension, and Details. Focusing on these three elements, you can take your portrait drawing to the next level!

In this figure drawing tutorial, you’ll learn:

• Tips for staging and lighting the model.
• Simple tips for designing and placing the portrait on the paper.
• Creating dimensionality by placing specific focus on the shadow terminators.
• Observing the key details that capture the expression of the subject.

MATERIALS

Charcoal Pencils

• · Compressed Charcoal
• · Carbon Sketch Pencil
• · Dark Charcoal Pencil
• · White Charcoal Pencil
• · Vine or Willow Charcoal

Surfaces

• Toned Drawing Paper

Other

• · Erasers (kneaded/rubber, mechanical)
• · Tortillion Shading Stump
• · Sharpeners

About Nathaniel Skousen

Nathaniel Skousen was always attracted to art. Raised in a house that did not permit a television, and instead provided with many books, Nathaniel was keenly interested in the impressionists and Finnish realist oil painters. After graduating with a university-level Art Degree he realized that much of his learned needed to be taking place in the studios of famous artists.

In 2015, after taking an academic class in understanding color theory, and comparing color charts he fabricated to famous museum artist like William Adolphe Bouguereau and John Singer Sargent, did his art mind awaken to how colors work in art.

He spent almost two years away from direct painting and instead studied color theory by mixing many custom colors to arrive at the ideas that the masters demonstrated in their works.

His artwork has been highlighted in Southwest Art Magazine, and has won awards from the ARC Salon International Competition 2014, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art 2014, and the Waterhouse Gallery of Fine Art Figurative Show 2014, and had a painting accepted to the 2017 Oil Painters of America National Show.

Nathaniel can be contacted at [email protected]