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Drawing with Kristone Capistrano
Drawing with Kristone Capistrano
Learn some new drawing skills with artist Kristone Capistrano!
Pick up a pencil and run through some beginners portraiture tips and tricks with Kristone’s video series.
How to outline a face
Blacktown-based artist, Kristone Capistrano, shares his expertise in drawing a realistic portrait. In part one of his online workshop series he focused on outlining a face with tips.
Shading and tones
Blacktown-based artist, Kristone Capistrano, returns for part-two of his drawing workshop. In this episode, he talks through shading, tones and looks at a technique called crosshatching.
Quick tips for realistic portraits
Blacktown-based artist, Kristone Capistrano, returns with eight quick tips for realistic portraits. In the short clip, he covers everything from the downfalls of smudging with your fingers to the benefits of constantly readjusting.
Bios
Kristone Capistrano is a Philippine-born contemporary artist working across an expanded field of drawing and portraiture, ranging from works on paper, the moving image and community collaborations. His practice is shaped by the Incarnational traditions of Filipino figurative art, approaching the human face as mysterious sites of transcendence.
Kristone has exhibited solo and collectively in Australia and Asia. He has been awarded the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, the Royal South Australian Portrait Biennale and the Blacktown Local Artist Prize. Currently, he is working towards a public art commission for the new Aerotropolis Metro Station, set to open in 2025. A multi-screen, dance, drawing and video work, produced in conversation with the landscape and architecture of the Aerotropolis station.
‘Drawing with Kristone Capistrano’ was published in May 2020.
This project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council and the NSW Government through Create NSW.
