Portraits with Lewis Rossignol

Sketchbooking
with Lewis Rossignol

Carla Sonheim Presents: Lewis Rossignol

Working in a sketchbook can be an important part of an artist’s life, beyond just “sketching” out ideas. For me it is vital for stress relief and well being… and I have a lot of fun! I hope this class will help you loosen up and discover new ways to use your sketchbook. We will remind ourselves that a sketchbook should be a personal journal, and not something that has to be a masterpiece from beginning to end. By combining collage, words, and drawing, we’ll start a sketchbook that will hopefully free you to not overthink future sketchbooks.

Lewis

Now available as a self-study class.

Drawing portraits is the most satisfying type of drawing that I do. However, learning to do portraits can be both challenging and maybe even frustrating if you come at it from the wrong angle or with the wrong mindset. This class will help you to actually enjoy drawing portraits. We’ll work on learning on how to draw what you see in a reference photograph, without ruining the fun by worrying about “the rules.” 

We are going to explore how we can use lines, shapes, and shading to build up a portrait that actually looks like the person we’re drawing. I’ll also show you how few marks you can make while still enabling your viewer to identify the subject of your drawing. Most importantly, we’ll stay loose and have fun. By the end of the course you’ll have some finished work, sketches, and a better understanding of how to create recognizable portraits.

Lewis

This class includes:

• 6 video lessons;
• Unlimited access to all the teaching materials of this class;
• The ability to watch the class at your pace, at the time you choose, as often as you want. You can watch it from your computer, but also from your tablet or phone. So you can also take this course while on holiday!
• Access to the class forum
• Forever access; Lessons are prerecorded and are available immediately upon signup.

This class is only available for customers
outside United States & Canada

If you live in The United States or Canada, please visit www.carlasonheim.com to purchase this class

Price:
USD 72 (Outside EU)
EUR 79,50 (EU)

Class Itinerary

Lesson 1: Intro and Purposeful Doodling

We’ll begin by seeing how different artists tackle portraits for inspiration. Then we’ll do a fun exercise that will challenge our brains and creativity more than our drawing skills.

Lesson 2: Choosing Reference and Practice Makes Perfect

We’ll start this lesson by talking about what makes a good reference photograph for portraits. Then we’ll do an exercise that shows us the value of repetition and flexibility in drawing portraits.

Lesson 3: Frankensteining a Portrait Together

Here we’re going to experiment with a method of creating a portrait that I call the Frankenstein method. It involves piecing the portrait together through trial, error and collage.

Lesson 4: Slowly Building a Portrait

This lesson will show another method of starting a portrait, through methodically and slowly building from light to dark.

Lesson 5: Lightbox

We’ll take our work from the last two lessons and use a Lightbox to transfer them to some mixed media paper without losing all the looseness that we captured initially.

Lesson 6: Finishing Our Portraits

Finally we’re going to learn how to build on top of the line work with shading and mixed mediums to really capture the likeness of your subject.

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