Expressive Portrait Drawing
Workshop | Available
This workshop will help students to make competent portrait drawings. Step-by- step demonstrations will help students to understand the structure of the face in terms of shapes, plane changes, and value by using lines and value rendering. Students will learn the technique of mastering expressive portraiture drawings with vine charcoal on white drawing paper and pastel pencils on tonal papers by working with live models. All levels are welcome. Oliver has over 20 years of professional teaching experience and will provide hands-on instruction with strong knowledge in breaking down the drawing process for his students. https://www.instagram.com/oliversin
Oliver Sin
Oliver Sin is an alumnus of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, with a BFA in Illustration. After he graduated in 1996, he started his art career as a computer game concept artist at LucasArts. He returned to the Academy to teach for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation in 2001. He was drawn to art even as a little boy, once recalling that he started drawing at the age of 3. Portraiture is his favorite form of expression which he constantly practices, not only as an art professor but as a favorite hobby as well. Since 2011, Oliver has been lucky enough to come across a few distinguished contemporary artists as mentors, ZhaoMing Wu, Henry Yan, and Chung-Wei Chien. Their tireless guidance has urged him to put greater efforts into capturing fleeting human expressions and paying more attention to precise composition in figurative portraits. Oliver's first art book, “Drawing the Head for Artists” is published by the Rockport publisher in 2019 and the Spanish version was released in June 2021. Two of his portraits were commissioned and featured on the cover of the Time Magazine as part of their "100 Women of the Year" project, March 2020 issue. Vine charcoal portrait of his dad has won the First Place Drawing and People's Choice Awards of the International Portrait Society's portrait competition out of 2660 international entries on May 8, 2021. Samples of art can be reviewed at: https://www.instagram.com/oliversin/