Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and I´m so happy!
because my publisher just told me, that my brand new book
on the "Basics of Drawing - The Ultimate Guide", is about to be released!
You may pre-order it with the link below.
Into this tutorial we will make a sketch
of a mouse, but mainly we will go over the concept of value in drawing.
Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
In the next 4 weeks, I will be picking some valuable information from the book
and we will go over it, here in the tutorial.
And we will also have challenges with prizes which I will tell you about
in a little bit here in this video.
Chapter 2 of the book is called
¨The Basic Elements of Drawing¨.
These basic elements are shape, color, value and edges.
Value is often included within color
because it is in fact a characteristic of color,
but it is so important,
and is when drawing in black and white it becomes the only characteristic of color
that we work with, then I give it its own entry.
There are an unlimited number of values,
but a value scale, as shown here, may simplify it to 10.
Black is often number 1, while white is 10.
Working with a small range of values may result in flat drawings
but with contrasting values you can show volume
and light.
To make things shine, you need high contrast.
Some time ago, to show the point I made
a tutorial called ¨How to Draw Light¨ or something like that,
in which I show the drawing of a candle with a very low range of values,
that is with low contrast
like the one of the left and you could not see the shine, and also it looked very flat.
But, once we added some darks, and so a high contrast,
we immediately see the light and also the volume.
And this time I’m doing the same thing,
I’m drawing this little mouse with a slightly hard lead, an H, and therefore,
it will not have a lot of contrast
at first.
You can see the shape of the drawing and it has a little bit of volume,
but not very much.
But now I switch to a carbon pencil,
this is made with a combination of graphite
and charcoal to produce really dark blacks.
So with this we should be able to pull more contrast, to give a better illusion
of volume.
Here we simply reinforce the darks.
My book will be released in bookstores on the first of December.
Although it can be pre-order from Amazon, already.
For the launch of this book, we will hold 4 drawing challenges.
Each will be launched on every Tuesday of November.
The 1st. challenge that will run from the 3rd. to the 9th. of November, will be about value.
Upload your own creations where you apply the concept of value.
Use the link below to go to the challenge page,
you can upload your drawings there…
or download the app where you can also interact with the community.
I look forward to seeing your drawings,
and please in the comments tell me how this experience with Vibely is for you?
to see if we will use them in the future, to help us organize more activities.
Also if you pre-order the book, which I´d love you to do, e-mail
the prove to receive to my team to mail@artistleonardo
to participate in a raffle and be able to win a personal art consultation with me,
as well as a Tutto3 mechanical pencil.
And if you made it all the way to this point, I would love to know it!
Please in the comments write me the secret code:
¨The curious little mouse¨.
We give it the last touches and it´s ready!
If you enjoyed it please give it a LIKE!, subscribe to Fine Art-Tips, if you haven’t
done so already,
join the challenge and pre-order the book with the links below,
and I will see you with another lesson and challenge
on Tuesday ;)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo