Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw wood.
We begin by sprinkling some graphite powder, on the paper.
Just a little.
And then with a chamois
we smudge it.
Always smudge in the direction in which the boards of the wood will be.
Start with little powder and then add as needed.
And repeat the action.
If you put too much and then you smudge it, then... it's very
very hard to come back.
I will use the Tutto3 mechanical pencil for this project.
With a square ruler, I make some dark lines that will divide the wood pieces
or the tiles.
Good!
By the way the graphite powder is the one saved when sharpening
the leads on my lead holders.
Now using a ruler I mark a division in a couple of the tiles.
That ruler was one of those to measure how much paint it is in a paint bucket [laughter].
We make the divisions.
I switch lead to a harder one, to start making the woodgrain.
These flow a little bit like waves in water.
Here we will draw a knot.
Knots are harder in the wood and the other patterns, sort of flow around them.
The lines I´m making, are not totally solid, they are a little bit blurry
as I am making them through a series of short lines.
In this close up I think you can see what I´m talking about.
Here I am drawing another knot, one of those that have a little bit
indentation in the wood.
See how the rest of the lines, flow around it.
By the way if you are interested in drawing wood, I have an in detail
explanation with instructions step by step and with pictures
in my book, titled ¨You Can Draw! Simple Techniques for Realistic Drawings¨
Which is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Hobby Lobby, Michael´s, etc.
There is an unlimited number of patterns that the wood may have, here we will draw
simply lines.
Lines that will go all acrossed, of course they are not straight.
If you want to soften them you can go over them lightly
with the chamois.
Of course the tone of the wood may very greatly, depending
from what tree it is, or the finish it has on it.
It could be a lot lighter or a lot darker than this.
I want this wood to look older and not too refined, so at the edge
we put some imperfections and little cracks.
And also the ends will be nailed.
Let´s do two nails on each.
There you go, and some more cracks sometimes the nails crack the wood.
The lower edge of each board should have a shadow, as in this case
the light will be coming, from the top-right.
And with an eraser we can lighten up the top of the boards.
Good!
Now let´s draw the nails, on this ends.
This one will be like sinked in.
And we can draw the trace of a harmer hitting the wood.
Good!
A long version of this video, by the way, will be uploaded to
my Patreon account.
We do the last details… erasing some spots that catch the light…
especially those that face the top right,
also sharpening and darkening some spots with the pencil….
and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo