In case you don't do Facebook or missed the live stream, here's the archived video. The demo is broken up into six chapters because the stream kept freezing for some reason.
You can skip ahead to episodes 4, 5, and 6 if you want to get to the main part of the painting.
Part 1 Intro—Sketchbook walkthrough
Part 2 —Drawing starts at very end
Part 3 —Pencil drawing and painting background
Part 4—Painting shadows, cutting edges, and defining basic forms.
Part 5—Lighter halftones
Part 6 —Dark accents, refining contours, losing edges
The point of this grisaille study was to present a good exercise for those of you who are getting to know gouache, or who are just getting into painting. You can do most of your drawing with the brush, and here the main focus is on value rather than worrying about color.
The head is one that I sculpted based on George Bridgman
's analysis of the head, and it's intended to show the simplified planes of the head, keeping in mind the skull underneath, but ignoring the surface features. |
| (b) Highpass filtered face; (c) Lowpass filtered face (source) |
Portraits in the Wild
Download (66 minutes, 1080p HD widescreen MP4 video) Available at Gumroad and Sellfy.
Thanks for posting it on the blog! It's really great to see it, despite my lack of facebook.
ReplyDeleteWhere are you guys going in Canada?
Great to see you going through some of your sketchbooks. What a treat. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI can't access the videos. There is message in each one: This video is not available. I'm wondering if anyone else encountered this problem?
ReplyDeleteGayle, I'm not sure why it's not working for you. It shows up with playable controls on my laptops and iPad. Do you have a FB account? Maybe it only plays if you're signed in. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThanks James - I'll try to go the FB route.
ReplyDeleteI second A Main's sentiments. Much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteOn that note, to Gayle: I don't have a Facebook account either, but I can see the videos. Although I'm not sure if that helps much...
Initially I could not see the videos either - no links, nothing but blank spaces. Being logged in on FB had no effect. Finally found out that with Firefox browser you cannot use the Private Browsing mode and you must allow it to remember history (you can still use the custom history settings to set it to clear history when FF closes). Works fine now that I changed those settings.
ReplyDeleteThanks Warren and Ted for your comments re viewing the videos. I'll give it another try!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this! I was away for the day and missed it. Portraits is fantastic, by the way. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe container for the video truncates it - at least on my Windows 7, machine both on Google Chrome v51 and IE 11. I tried it on my iPod and it works just fine, full frame so the problem is likely not with the video or the feed but with the container.
ReplyDeleteJames, thanks for posting the videos since for those who don't use Facebook, like myself. Have you tried Ustream? I think it might work much better for a live broadcast. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteBernicky, I know what you mean, but the container was a 9x16, with a square inside. On my devices, the square was fully visible. I could recalibrate the embed to get the whole container to fit, but then the square would be smaller.
ReplyDeleteCarlos, I think the interruption may have something to do with the way the wifi network was configured at the college, namely to restrict two-way streaming, so the large upload speed may not have been the only metric that mattered.
I had a problem with truncation of the video area myself. On my tablet, the right side was chopped off so I couldn't tap the fullscreen button. But the videos were downloadable - only while they're already playing, strangely - and play fullscreen from the tablet's storage. (I just hope I'm not violating any copyright that way!)
ReplyDeleteIt's a little more complicated on a PC or laptop. (Complicated for me - I just found this with the digital equivalent of poking it with a stick) I right-clicked on the video; clicked 'inspect' (in Chrome); right-clicked the address in the right-hand column (under 'elements' and 'styles', starting with 'video.php'); copied and pasted that into the address bar; and snipped off the '&width=560' at the end.
That brings the full video up, but still a bit ill-fitting for a maximised window. Video controls show up when you reduce the window a little, then you can click 'full screen' from there.
Warren and Bernicky, I've changed the HTML code for episodes 5 and 6 to include the full post and full frame. Let me know if the envelope on those embeds works better.
ReplyDeleteYeah! The videos are working for me now! Big thank you to James and everyone who offered suggestions.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for the demo, that was great.
ReplyDeleteA few people I follow use Ustream with success and not to many issues with it.
Some folks also use Google Hangouts with success as well.