Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will go over how the great masters of
the past drew with ink.
By the way at the end of this video I will announce the
two winners of the mentorships that i will give away.
Of course there are many techniques the old masters used,
but here we will see specifically how
they did their strokes for shading.
If we look at this self-portrait by Rembrandt,
we can see how he shaded by following the volume of the face,
it's like making the strokes as if you were drawing on the actual surface
with the strokes we can indicate the roundness or the flatness
of the plane as well as its inclination
and we can crosshatch to darken further.
But of course, you don't necessarily have to do that,
for example in this other drawing also by Rembrandt
we see how he used a lot of straight lines, even to shade rounded surfaces.
To practice doing this kind of drawing, we are going to copy this study of an arm
by Renaissance Italian Master Bartolomeo Passaro.
I already copied the outline of the arm and of the muscles,
and now I will just go over it with the dip pen and ink.
Ok good! let's begin shading!
as we said earlier we will try to follow the direction
of the volume of the muscles.
I will not try to copy the original drawing
line by line, identically, that's not the purpose
the purpose of this exercise that I recommend you doing, is yes to copy the way he shaded it.
Try to make the lines in the same direction,
overall, study and practice how he crossed
the lines and where, and to what effect, and shade pretty much with the same technique.
It can be really beneficial to copy some drawings from the great
masters of the past and internalize those techniques.
Learning that, doesn't mean at all that now in the future you will draw with this style...
but it does mean that you can integrate some of this knowledge
and apply it in your own creations.
Now I will switch to a brush, a fine brush which I also dip into the ink
and with this we can draw, making a slightly wider line
or a lot wider, depending how you use it.
I see that the lines I've made in my drawing are thinner and not
as dark as the ones in the original drawing, so I will reinforce with the brush.
First the dark shadow underneath the arm and then some of the dark areas,
like this one on the wrist and by the fingers.
Let's darken the forearm and also the triceps,
the big deltoids, and the biceps.
The deltoid is the big round muscle up here.
The list of materials that I am using, is in information below the video.
I delineate some of the outline with a wider mark.
I'm very interested to know whether you would like to go over
other and different techniques from the old masters,
or not.
Please do let me know in the comments.
Let's reinforce some of the key lines...
the last details, and it´s ready!
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and now let's go over the winners
of the mentorship from the Instagram raffle, the first one is
artist_j._davin, and the other one lauraaspinozaaa.
Congratulations to both, I will be contacting them personally on Instagram.
And I will see you all, on Tuesday ;)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo