Ink illustration specialization: Techniques for creative expression

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 Domestika addresses the topic: Ink Exercise: Hair, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ink illustration specialization: Techniques for creative expression. Create illustrations of evocative nature using the feather and immersion ink, focusing on traditional entering techniques and observation drawing.

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: Ink illustration specialization: Techniques for creative expression

• Level: Beginner
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• 391 students
• 7 units
• 85 lessons (16h 18m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration