Olaaa!
I have finally finished to edit the last video I made, wile recording the “Smile” portrait. As I said before, this drawing was made specially for the contest we had on Pencil Portraits. So I tried to give and some advices. I hope will find them useful.
HD full screen recommended.
Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category
Pencil portrait – tips for a realistic drawing
By jullia in TutorialsDrawing hair – new video
By jullia in TutorialsHi everyone! I made a new video wile drawing Sergio’s portrait. I speed it up so you don’t get bored. Enjoy the video!
HD (720p) full screen recommended (;
See also the other drawing hair video tutorial that I made.
SimmTrace – a brilliant idea for starting a drawing
By jullia in Articles, Tutorials
When starting a drawing, the first issue is: how am I going to trace my drawing correctly, easy and fast? Everybody has different methods for doing this: transfer paper, grid from photo/print reference, lightbox, real life trace, Photoshop grid, and so on.
Even in the ancient times, artists had their own methods. Artists such as Van Gogh and Da Vinci used the grid, but we attribute the grid to Albrecht Dürer. His magnificent drawings show such realism and the grid was part of that success.(ref)
Even in the ancient times, artists had their own methods. Artists such as Van Gogh and Da Vinci used the grid, but we attribute the grid to Albrecht Dürer. His magnificent drawings show such realism and the grid was part of that success.(ref)
Drawing realistic hair – video tutorial
By jullia in TutorialsHi everyone!
New tutorial done (: I made it wile drawing my sister’s portrait. I just wanted to share few tricks and tips about realistic drawing. But the biggest secret is patience ; )
Enjoy the video!
See also drawing feather video tutorial.
Do you find this video tutorial useful, difficult? What’s the hard part for you when you draw hair?
The power of grey
By admin in Articles, TutorialsThe main media that I work with is pencil on paper. Comparing it with painting or color pencils, the graphite is limited in colours. In fact you have only one colour: black (or more exactly a grey gamma). Beside this limitation, graphite is still fascinating. Why? Because of its simplicity, power in details… Let’s see from different points of view what the power of grey is.
First of all, according to the color theory, grey (British) or gray (American) describes the tints and shades ranging from black to white. Black and white are the result of the color mixture. There are two types of mixtures: the additive mixture (or light mixture) and the subtractive mixture (or pigment mixture) depending by the medium (light or pigment). The result of the additive mixture of the primary colors, red, green and blue is white, and the result of the mixture of cyan, magenta and yellow is black. (see the images below) www.wikipedia.org
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