Practical Color Theory For Portrait and Figurative Artists

Practical Color Theory For Portrait and Figurative Artists, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 19 lectures, based on 73 reviews, and has 496 subscribers.

You will learn about Understanding how to think about Color as an artist, and not about paints or paint names (or other colorants) The "truth" about skin tones for the artist A simple, easy-to-use Color Theory that can work for most genres or themes, not just for human subjects. Better Portrait and Figure painting Practical understanding of color, which means using it in practice, not just in theory! This course is ideal for individuals who are Portrait Artist or Art student or Artist or Illustrator or Realist Artist or Designer or Comic Artist or Matte Painter or Concept Artist or Sketcher or Digital Painting Artist or Figurative Art or Figurative Artist It is particularly useful for Portrait Artist or Art student or Artist or Illustrator or Realist Artist or Designer or Comic Artist or Matte Painter or Concept Artist or Sketcher or Digital Painting Artist or Figurative Art or Figurative Artist.

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Summary

Title: Practical Color Theory For Portrait and Figurative Artists

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 19

Number of Published Lectures: 18

Number of Curriculum Items: 19

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 18

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Understanding how to think about Color as an artist, and not about paints or paint names (or other colorants)
The "truth" about skin tones for the artist
A simple, easy-to-use Color Theory that can work for most genres or themes, not just for human subjects.
Better Portrait and Figure painting
Practical understanding of color, which means using it in practice, not just in theory!

Who Should Attend

Portrait Artist
Art student
Artist
Illustrator
Realist Artist
Designer
Comic Artist
Matte Painter
Concept Artist
Sketcher
Digital Painting Artist
Figurative Art
Figurative Artist

Target Audiences

Portrait Artist
Art student
Artist
Illustrator
Realist Artist
Designer
Comic Artist
Matte Painter
Concept Artist
Sketcher
Digital Painting Artist
Figurative Art
Figurative Artist

This lecture series is intended to provide anyone interested in the human subject in art with a guide for assessing and understanding skin color. An added bonus is that the same concepts and ideas put forth in this course will help anyone in their understanding of nearly any color, not just skin tones. Although Color Theory is a vast and complicated subject, and this course narrows in on skin color, that is itself very broad and far-ranging, so there is plenty to go through. The course focuses primarily on presenting the most useful aspects of color theory for representational artists and provides a logical and simplified vocabulary for that, namely: hue, value, and chroma. More specifically, you will learn how to use this “language” when considering or describing the nuanced world of skin tones without relying, for example, on names of paints (as opposed to names of colors). Paint names can be surprisingly misleading since the same paint from one manufacturer can look quite different from the paint with same name from another. The concepts presented will be useful for artists in any medium.

Through lecture and demonstration, including some exercises that subscribers may wish to try on their own, this course will develop a theoretical framework for the artist. But, as the title implies, it will be more than theoretical because the knowledge gained can and, perhaps, ought to be put into practice and used every day.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Language of Color

Lecture 1: Hue Value Chroma – Slides 1 to 27

Lecture 2: Hue Value Chroma – Slides 27 to 36

Lecture 3: Hue Value Chroma – Slides 36 to 45

Lecture 4: Hue Value Chroma – Slide 45 to End

Chapter 3: What is "skin color"?

Lecture 1: What is "skin colour" – Using colour chips as examples

Lecture 2: What is "skin color" – Try painting (on) yourself …

Lecture 3: Matching any color with a limited palette

Chapter 4: Some color "Rules" – use them wisely

Lecture 1: Rule 1 – Warm light/Cool Shadows? Not so fast …

Lecture 2: Rule 2 – Value of Values 2.0

Lecture 3: Rule 3 – The Color of a Thing is the Color of The Thing

Lecture 4: Rule 4 – Turning Form

Lecture 5: Rule 5 – "The Rule of Rubens"

Chapter 5: Theory to practice

Lecture 1: Theory to practice – looking at Artwork

Lecture 2: Painting the duke – introduction

Lecture 3: Painting the duke – part 1

Lecture 4: Painting the duke – part 2

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Conclusion

Instructors

8D Studio
Crafting interactive media
Juan Martinez
Artist and Art Instructor: Traditional Drawing & Painting

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2 stars: 1 votes
3 stars: 6 votes
4 stars: 18 votes
5 stars: 46 votes

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