Illustration with Pastel and Coloured Pencils
Lights and main brightness
A course by Elena Pancorbo , Illustrator
About the video: Lights and main brightness
Overview
“In the first place and based on our image (also a bit on our intuition) we will start with the main lights and highlights of the skin. ”
In this video lesson Elena Pancorbo addresses the topic: Lights and main brightness, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration with Pastel and Coloured Pencils. Discover creative manual techniques for realistic and delicate drawings.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this new lesson and once we already have our image passed to the paper and drawn as let's proceed to paint it to pastel good to me I like it start with the brightness not , for the white go from the more light tones of the lights to the shadow so to speak, although there are other artists that follow another process that goes right to otherwise no, from dark to lights but well this is my process and it's like what I usually do , we're going to print our images to have the at hand and to go looking at the tonality of the girl not, in question and let's start with the pastel first, then we...”
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Course summary for: Illustration with Pastel and Coloured Pencils
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration

Elena Pancorbo
A course by Elena Pancorbo
Although she has been drawing since she was a child, it wasn't until much later that Elena discovered pastels, the technique that she feels most comfortable using for her delicate feminine portraits.
She studied fine art and trained as an illustrator, and has worked for publishers such as Planeta, Penguin Random House, Anaya, Nocturna Ediciones, and Alfaguara, to name just a few.
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