Graphite Portraits with Digital Design
Shading 4: Neck and Ear
A course by Patricia Escalante , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined October 2019
About the video: Shading 4: Neck and Ear
Overview
“You will see how to make the shading of the dark part of the ear and neck.”
In this video lesson Patricia Escalante addresses the topic: Shading 4: Neck and Ear, 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 4: Neck and Ear In this lesson I will start to stain the neck area and I will end up darkening the ear area. Now as a first stain, I am going to use 2B. The ear and the neck part already have a 2B and 3B. I do a few first layers. So I'll do the same with the neck here. I will work it in layers. This area here looks dark but it actually has various shades of dark gray, but there are shades, here dark, here lighter. Here is a medium tone. They are dark tones, but there is a range of grays, so that, to be able to rule it out, I will go forward and reach the darkness with layers. Now I'...”
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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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