Sunday, June 13, 2010

Portraits on Wave - Course Outline

Here's the course outline for the 6 week Portraits on Wave session:

  • Anatomy of the Human Head
    • Proportions of a "Normal" Head
  • Striking the Arabesque
    • Using Grids
    • Lightbox method
    • Eyeballing method
  • Mastering the Features
    • Eyes
    • Nose
    • Ears
    • Mouth
    • Hair
  • Putting it all together
  • Adding Color
  • Frontal View vs 3/4 View
  • Analyzing your work
    • Placement of features
    • Values

To access the course, join the ArtisticWaves group and bookmark the Portraits on Wave link.

We use Google Wave to host the discussions. If you are new to Google Wave, please check out this cheatsheet [PDF].

To participate in the class, all you need to know is how to reply/comment on the waves (see page 4 of the cheatsheet) and how to upload your pics.

1 comment:

  1. I'm really loving your pages... WOW! You totally rock! Would you be interested in being a guest artist on my year long prompt challenge?

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