Graphite Portraits with Digital Design
Graphite Shading Techniques
A course by Patricia Escalante , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined October 2019
Joined October 2019
About the video: Graphite Shading Techniques
Overview
“I like to do my graphite drawings using textures or "spots." To achieve this, I usually turn to some modeling techniques that I will share with you. I will also show you the whole range of grays that one can model with graphite pencils. I will then sketch in graphite an eye, an eyebrow, and a nose and lips. ”
In this video lesson Patricia Escalante addresses the topic: Graphite Shading Techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphite Portraits with Digital Design. Create a graphite portrait from a photograph and color it with digital mixed media.
Partial transcription of the video
“Graphite shading techniques Now I will show you the grayscale with the graphite and also the various ways of shading. For this, I will show you the gradient, I will do some examples of textures and shading and I'll finish by shading an eye. Here we have a gradient. Gradient is a scale of gray values which is classified according to the degree of luminosity between black and white. It is the whole range of gray that one can create. Here, for example, I have various gray scales, according to the shade of the graphite pencil. Here we have the twelve shades of the graphite pencil, from 2H to 9B...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Graphite Portraits with Digital Design
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Patricia Escalante
A course by Patricia Escalante
Patricia Escalante studied painting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. However, she spent 12 years of her career pursuing one of her other passions: graphic design. During that time, she worked with companies like Kerzen and Unique/Yanbal.
Now she is fully devoted to art and experiments with graphite drawing and other digital techniques. Much of her work focuses on portraits of artists and people she admires. Inspired by classic magazine graphics and black and white photography, Patricia explores the depth of portraits as an art form and depicts her figures in timeless spaces.
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