Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils
Blending techniques and textures
A course by Ricardo Núñez Suarez , Illustrator
About the video: Blending techniques and textures
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to work on the fades and the textures. For the first, we will use a drawing of a pen. We will start from the bottom with a dark tone which we will blur as we get closer to the tip of it. In the second part of this lesson, we are going to make a pencil texture recreating the skin of an animal on a sphere. ”
In this video lesson Ricardo Núñez Suarez addresses the topic: Blending techniques and textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils. Expand the pencil's limits in editorial illustration and learn the process to tell stories through drawing.
Partial transcription of the video
“Blending techniques and textures I hope you liked the lesson of hatching and different strokes. We will now look at the blurring and texturing lesson. For this part of the blur I will use a pen, I already had my pen made. I have to transfer it to clean paper because in this blur the idea is that the line is not visible because it is a key part of how I want my final work to be. Once I go over the line on the pen, This paper this thick gives me so I can see what's underneath. We will take the 2H pencil and we will pass the line over the pen to pass it over this paper. It has to be super clea...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Ricardo Núñez Suarez
A course by Ricardo Núñez Suarez
Ricardo Suárez is a freelance illustrator from Colombia. Although he has illustrated his entire life, it wasn’t until he was thirty years old that it became his career. He left his Graphic Design job for advertising agencies in Australia to go back to Colombia and achieve his dream of becoming an illustrator. He took part in many exhibitions in Brazil, Colombia, England, and Cuba; He also obtained a grant to do a Master’s in Illustration, in the United States.
His biggest influence when illustrating is life itself, filled with stories, landscapes, and adventures that deserve to be illustrated in pencil, his favorite tool.
His work has been recognized by Latin American Illustration, American Illustration, Applied Arts Students Awards, Creative Quarterly, 3x3 Magazine, Manifest Gallery in the United States, HiiiBrand in China, Australian Centre for Moving Image, among others.
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