USE SHADOWS IN YOUR PORTRAITS
Artist PROFILE
Cynthia Sheppard
LOCATION: US
Cynthia is a freelance illustrator creating character-driven art, an art educator, and former senior art director for Magic: the Gathering.
One of my favourite ways to study the head and portrait is drawing or painting the same face from observation using different lighting schemes. It’s fascinating how different a person can look depending on how they’re lit and how much it affects the mood of an illustration when we change how much (or how little) of a face is in shadow.
In this workshop, I’ve borrowed my friend and fellow artist Lake Hurwitz as a model to demonstrate some key techniques of lighting and rendering a dramatic portrait.
