Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Ink Exercise: Hair
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Ink Exercise: Hair
Overview
“Next, I will show the technique for drawing hair. We will do long straight hair, wavy hair, and short. The principle is the same for all: dividing the hair into segments with key lines—these may be straight or wavy depending on the hair—and then working out each segment individually. For the lighter areas, keep your lines further apart or use dots to break the lines altogether. For shadow, keep your lines closer together.”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Ink Exercise: Hair, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink. Explore creative inking techniques to bring to life magical illustrations for fairy tales that capture the culture, time, and magic of the story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ink Exercise: Hair One of the questions I get asked the most is, how do you do that hair in ink? In this lesson, we will do three types of hair, long, straight hair, long, wavy hair, and a short haircut. I will do a few auxiliary lines with the pencil first, and then we will move to the ink. I will start with the long, straight hair. First, I just do the key lines to outline the hair. Then, I will erase the pencil and go into more detail. As for the key lines, they should outline the shape of the head and then indicate the direction in which the hair falls. In this lesson, we will not get i...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
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Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Ink Illustration
Sveta Dorosheva
A course by Sveta Dorosheva
Sveta Dorosheva is a Ukrainian illustrator, currently living in Israel. She works in book illustration and narrative art for magazines and brands, which are deeply influenced by myth and fairy tales. She is a self-trained artist, and started her professional career by writing and illustrating her own book, “The Land of Stone Flowers”. Originally published in 2014, it was nominated for the National Bestseller award in 2016, and has also been translated into more than five languages.
Her work is hand-drawn on paper, merging a lot of mythical and traditional motifs from various cultures with contemporary ideas. She’s worked with numerous publishing houses to create art for books, including HarperCollins, Penguin Books, Macmillan, Disney-Hyperion, Usborne, and Chronicle Books. Sveta has also created artwork for movies, including The True Adventures of Wolfboy, commercial art for advertising agencies like JWT New York or D8 studio in Glasgow, and editorial pieces for magazines like The New Yorker and The LA Times.
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