Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Scale of values and tonal keys
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Scale of values and tonal keys
Overview
“You will learn what a scale of values is, a tonal key and its combination to give a better result to your work. I will also teach you very simple exercises that will help you understand how to carry out the inking process. ”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Scale of values and tonal keys, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots. Learn to analyze the anatomy of a face, play with light and shadow, and express the identity of people through portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“Scale of values and tonal keys In this lesson, we will see what is a scale of values and a tonal key for your combination to help us to a better realization of our project. You will find this scale of values in the attached material. I left an empty line so they can do their own exercises and your own experimentation about finding and being able to make visible and analyze the different gray gradients what is between a black value and a white value. The main thing to understand is that the difference between two values is the same. Many times some value scales maintain a rhythm that is not ...”
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Course summary for: Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing

Leonardo Gauna
A course by Leonardo Gauna
Leonardo Gauna is an illustrator with more than a decade of experience who lives in the city of La Plata, Argentina. He has illustrated for a variety of media outlets, institutions, agencies, and galleries, and has traveled across the world to present artistic and educational projects in cities like Tokyo, Toronto, Paris, Belo Horizonte, Prague, and Houston, among others.
In 2014, the publisher TASCHEN featured his work in the book Illustration Now 5! Leonardo has published 12 books and his latest is a collection of his illustrations. He currently teaches workshops and courses and does research on virtual reality, which was the topic of his thesis for his degree in fine arts from the La Plata National University.
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