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Russian Cast Drawing Course: Cast of the Mouth with Iliya Mirochnik

Russian Cast Drawing Course: Cast of the Mouth
David's Mouth Learn the forms of the face

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Instructor
Iliya Mirochnik
Subjects
Drawing
Topics
Anatomy, Design, Head & Portrait
Mediums
Paper, Pencil
Duration
1h 22m 10s
Series
Russian Drawing Course 5: The Face

You will learn how to analyze, observe, and render the structure of the lips, relying on the larger forms and shadows to describe the crease of the lips and the halftones to describe expression. You will learn techniques to better describe the forms of the mouth on a 2-dimensional surface using clear shadows and modeling the subtle forms of the lips with halftones.

Students are encouraged to work from the NMA reference images and 3D viewer included on this page*.

Join Ukrainian-born artist Iliya Mirochnik as he passes on a 250-year-old academic method preserved at the Repin Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia and seldom taught outside of the Academy and never before on camera.

The Russian Academic drawing and painting approaches were uninterrupted by the modern art movements that transformed representational art in the West, and as a result, they provide a unique and clear lineage to the greater art traditions of the past. As a powerful approach that is both constructive and depictive, it combines the two methods that prevail in contemporary representational art.

In this series of drawing courses, we have set out to condense the entire program, spanning over eight years into a logical, step-by-step procedure. We have made improvements and added resources and exercises to explicitly drive home the concepts that are required to work in this approach.

We have also structured the course so that it is not only useful for professional and experienced artists but also artists with no drawing experience whatsoever.

In this next part, How to Draw from Plaster Casts, we will use our understanding of the technique to explore casts of the organic forms of the face.

The New Masters Academy Coaching Program directly supports this Course. If you enroll in the coaching program, you can request an artist trained in the Russian Academic Method including Iliya Mirochnik himself. Click here to enroll in the Coaching Program.

Materials

  • Graphite pencils
  • Kneaded and Hard Erasers
  • Roll of Paper, Smooth Sketchbook paper
  • Easel
  • Light source
Beginner Friendly
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