Graphite Portraits with Digital Design
Shading 2: Eyes and Eyebrows
A course by Patricia Escalante , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined October 2019
About the video: Shading 2: Eyes and Eyebrows
Overview
“ You will shade eyes and eyebrows, first with a layer of 2B pencil and then with another layer of 3B. You will also see how to shade the ear and the hair.”
In this video lesson Patricia Escalante addresses the topic: Shading 2: Eyes and Eyebrows, 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
“Shading 2: Eyes and eyebrows In this lesson I will continue with the shading of the eyes and eyebrows. Now I am with the 5B graphite pencil which is already a much darker shade and I'm going to start darkening the areas like the iris and the eyebrows. In the part of the eyelashes, everything here is dark. I'm going to start pressing harder with the graphite. In fact, I'm going to use 5 and 6B, because in the eyes I'm going to reach the end with the 8 and 9B in the darkest spots, in some parts. The interesting thing about the layers is that from the front you do not see the black black, othe...”
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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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