Pet Portraiture in Graphite - Eyes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- When drawing a pet portrait it is essential to capture the individuals character and the eyes are so important when it comes to this. So in this video of Pet Portraiture in Graphite I will show you how I go about doing this using graphite pencils.
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I agree Jamie the eyes really do make a huge difference to a piece. I found it interesting that you did no indenting on this piece "Yet" :)
Hi Lynton, I was really pleased with how the eyes turned out and because the areas around the eye are so dark I wanted to get quite a lot of tone onto the paper before starting the indenting process as this will effectively create a very subtle dark texture. Once the indenting has been applied to some of these areas more tone can then be applied over the top and this will give a really nice effect. The only thing is I am not quite sure how this will come out on camera as it will be a very subtle difference.
Your video are Always interesting .. and with very practical advices .. grazie mille 🙏🏼 🙌🏼
Thank you Maurizio, Glad you liked it.
Again a beautiful drawing and demonstration! I'm trying some carbon based pencils rather than pure graphite pencils and I'm already seeing smoother/darker tones come through. Your pencils seem quite dark from the get go, is this because they're waxed based?
Thank you Stephen. I do find the CARAN d'ACHE Grafwoods to be very dark and being wax based they do adhere to the paper very well. The only thing I would say is that the 9B is difficult to blend but a 2B can be used over the edge as a blender to soften the tone when creating a transition. One thing that I have found over the years is that paper does make a huge difference to how dark a tone looks StCuthberts Saunders Waterford and Arches Aquarelle both accept dark tones very well so those are the two papers that I favour at the moment. Carbon and charcoal will also appear slightly darker due to their matt appearance . Hope this is of help Jamie
Thanks Jamie - that's really helpful. Another artist I follow (Jono Dry) uses the Arches Aquarelle paper, now I'm definitely going to give it a go so thanks for the suggestion. I also love how your pencils are blunt - I spend ages getting the smallest details with sharp pencils but you're ability to get the same and even more details with blunt pencils is amazing 👏
@@stephenmcgeary9815 Thank-you Stephen, Glad to be of help. When I started I went through lots of pencils, constantly sharpening them but the more I did, I started to find that I could achieve the same result with blunt pencils as well as finding that I could use the harder 'H' range of pencils to manipulate the darker tones for very fine dark lines. It does present another problem and for example the Caran d'ACHE 2B pencil that I use a lot can tend to glaze, suddenly diminishing the tone that it produces so it then just needs to go into a sharpener to remove the glazing. To give you an idea of how many pencils I will go through in a year by working this way it is only about 4-5 pencils maximum. It is surprising how fine a line you can get from a blunt pencil just by removing the pressure towards the end of the stroke. I also like Jono Dry's work, discovered his channel about a year ago and his work is highly original and very skilfully executed.
Another amazing tip - thanks Jamie! I won't rush to sharpen my pencils next time and will give your way a go 🙏 I'm just taking skillshare class on accurate sketching and it's brilliant! Always relied on the grid method but always felt like I was cheating - this is really helping me build more confidence in drawing freehand!
@@stephenmcgeary9815 Thank you Stephen, so glad you found the dawing method useful on SkillShare. I will be starting work on a new course shortly.