Botanical Tattoo with Pointillism

Overview

“In this lesson, I will teach you how to make a dotted gradient (shading) and how to do solid fills correctly. In addition, we will see how to degrade from black to points in a smooth transition, and how to perform bounce pointillism to achieve point gradients. All this to start working on the feeling of volume of our tattoo.”

In this video lesson Polilla Tattoo addresses the topic: Pointillism: shading and volumes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Tattoo with Pointillism. Learn how to tattoo flowers and plants using the pointillism technique to create volume, details, and shapes.

Partial transcription of the video

“Pointillism: shading and volumes In this lesson, we'll look at pointillism applied to the volume of the flower petals. We'll try to look at the general lighting and shade the parts that are further inside the flower and create the shadows that will be cast by the petals on other petals or on the leaves. Why do we shade with pointillism? It's a technique I have been developing for about five years and I wanted to show you that it can be applied in several ways. There are tattoo artists who do pointillism dot by dot. Personally, I like to use pointillism with whip shading. Whip shading can be...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Tattoo with Pointillism

• Level: Intermediate
• 99% positive reviews (711)
• 34312 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 47m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Tattoo Design, Traditional illustration