Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today I want to share with you
a way, a technique, on how to make the main subject of your
drawings, stand out from the rest.
And we will do this as an example by drawing an eagle.
To begin, we will use graphite powder and a chamois.
I dip the chamois into the graphite and then, first I test it on a scrap
piece of paper, so as not to ruin my good one, and then let´s apply it
with horizontal motions.
The reason that they are horizontal is because, it will be a sea, and
therefore any pattern left in this direction can look like waves.
Very good!
Now, I will cover or mask the upper part, which will
be the sky, and I further darken
just a little,
the lower part.
Once I lift the paper
we have the sea and the sky
in two different tones.
And now I use a blending stump and some graphite powder
to draw a sailing boat
far away.
As I told you in the intro we want to make our main
subject stand out.
We will do this in two ways:
the first one is by contrast of tones or values.
In something that is close-by, we can see that the
black is black and the whites are whites, while things
far away become less intense.
The blacks are not anymore real blacks and neither are
the whites.
Everything appears on a gray value scale.
And the second effect that we will use, is that things
far away…
…look slightly blurry at the edges, they have soft
edges.
Also because we look at them through the atmosphere.
And that is why I drew the ship with the blending stump,
which leaves soft edges.
In contrast I´m drawing a close by eagle with a mechanical pencil.
The idea, as you can guess, is to draw it with sharp edges
and making the blacks ¨black¨ and the whites ¨white¨.
With all of this, it should stand out from the rest.
We drew the upper part of the wings, the head and the legs as a sketch and
now we fill in more detail.
By the way, it is very important when drawing with this technique
of the graphite powder, that you do not touch the paper
with your hand or your fingers before or after you apply it,
because it will ruin it.
As you saw I pulled some whites by erasing the areas, and now
to deliver the blacks, I want to use the softer and darker graphite there is,
which is a 9B lead.
I have this on a lead holder.
The whole list of materials is in the description below the video.
And I recommend fixing the drawing with a spray fixactive, as soon as
you finish it.
So that this doesn`t smear if you place another paper
on top of it, or something like that.
I hate it when that happens!
And I´m back to the mechanical pencil, to work on the fine detail.
It is very important that you consider doing this type of things, to make your
subject stand out
in your drawings.
That will communicate a lot better the idea of space and distance
and will make your drawings more powerful.
I keep working the details with the mechanical pencil
and with the eraser.
Since we originally give a gray tone to the whole paper with the graphite
powder, for the areas that I need white, I simply erase it exposing
the paper.
Very good!
¡Excelente!
It´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo