How to Draw : How to Draw Byzantine Icons

Drawing Byzantine icons involves illustrating a face in a specific style, and sketching out the head and neck proportionately. Add some stylized lines to represent the hair with a demonstration from an experienced artist in this free video on drawing.

Expert: Savago Lome
Bio: Savago Lome is an artist living in South Florida who specializes in drawing and painting.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

[marceloz]

I want to learn how to draw, and my interest is to draw in a medieval style. Even though I am not religious, this technique is a great starting point for me to at least understand how faces are drawn.

Great video! I hope it has helped others as well

[TheRisky]

Finally! Someone showing how its done! I've started doing illuminated manuscripts and I couldn't figure how to do the people.

[mjmiller]

softly spoken with a gentle hand.peace

[devourthetruth]

When she did the first few curls of the hair, I thought she was writing 666 on The Icons head freaked me out! Lol!

[RASyared]

This icon paintings are unforgotten and to these days practiced inside the Ethiopian Orthodox churches. Good sketch.

[ChiptuneVirus]

More videos like this type of forgotten art Please! Awesome work and tips! Thank you!

[bretcoltrain]

Helped me improve my DnD icons. Thank you.

[Aleksandr.Dmitriyevich]

Thank you very much! I really appreciate your work and talent!

[danilovsky]

Great! You are my teacher!I want to see more!

[emma-kkgb]

very helpful. for a social studies project my teacher is having us draw a mosaic representing the Byzantine empire. thanks this could help a lot :)

[ismaelmannheim]

Congratulations very and thanks to help me!!!!

[PK-wevk]

"Take this nose and put it here" xd

[MrSihamenos]

jesus! how do you do that with your left thumb?!

[kinglouiev]

This is the Medieval version of Japanese Style comics (Manga & Anime). A Very popular and a very common art style for the time.

[ShakespeareCafe]

I’m going to reverse those 6s for obvious reasons

[bacodenaus]

Can you make a video on how to draw the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus icon?

[Kolchak_Enjoyer]

Idk but I'm getting better by drawing that icon

[cedricburkhart]

Could you draw midevil art like in those real old books like 14 century?

[phoenixsasha]

So are the sections you made equal to each other in size?

[Dorotheos.sabashvili]

This is not an icon This is a normal portrait Iconographic borders do not fit facial plots Wrinkles on the side of the lip are superfluous and so on