Ink Portraits with Lines and Dots
Inking and scale of values
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Inking and scale of values
Overview
“I will explain to you how to adjust the distances and organization of your plot on different scales. You will put what you learned in the previous lesson to the test, doing simple exercises to understand the characteristics of each tonal key, in addition, I will tell you which one is the most suitable for your ink process. ”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Inking and scale of values, 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
“Inking and scale of values In this lesson, we will put into practice what we saw in the previous lesson, how to build our scale of values based on points and plot. For that, I left a grid in the attached material to do a first test of the system and rhythm example. Much of that will be in our hands, In the way we repeat and speed up a beat a distance and an organization of points. So you can find that in the attached material. If we analyze the scale of values, what we can see initially is that the separation of the points will give us that different scale in graduation to black. In the cas...”
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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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