Ink Drawing a Female Face from Reference

1. Ink Drawing - Intro: Hello. My name is Johnny and I will be teaching how to draw and paint in various courses. In this first video, I will be showing you how to draw a simple female face. I am an artist in Dallas, Texas, and I have a degree in fine arts studio painting where the concentration in water color 2. Ink Drawing - Materials: so some of the materials that we will be covering in this video will be are some very It depends brushes and gel pens. Here I have to breakfast I got from believe it's Michael's and the simple um, liner and then, ah, quill. These are three different times of pencils on the red and blue. Have red and blue pencil lead. There are three Joe pens, White Blue Peak and a pink lay pin. Her for different micron pens in various nip size is indicated by the number, and these are two brush pens, Um, one you could feel with your own ink. I have Black star doctor Ph. Martin's ink in this one, and the other is a refillable Penn. Tell brush pen on. You can just open that up and put a pin tell refills in that one. My favorite eat to use with my breakfast will be the doctor pH wanted Black star in Matt. It is waterproof at it, draws on most surfaces and it is very, very black. Gather all those materials in front of you. Which one do you want to use? Our tryout. I ended up not using to Joe pens, but you can have a water cup, a ruler as well, in case you need one to mark off your space, and you may also want to use a reference tools, such as a phone iPad or tablet. 3. Ink Drawing - Finding Reference: So since we are using reference for this our tutorial, we are going to be looking up some reference basis. I typed in reference Model face for this would on Pinterest. Pinterest is a great resource for using reference. I do want to note that references perfectly fine in using in your artwork, especially if it is your own photos for anything that you're going to be selling or making a profit from. Most of the time you want to choose photos that are your own for practice purposes and your own study. Any photo will be fine. It's not gonna be anything you're gonna sell or pass off his room so you can see our chose with my model's face. I have pin the photo and saved to the phones that I can represent later without having to get back on the app and then a swell. The thing I like about doing the photo on my phone is that I can mark up the photo in different areas of different spots so I can see be motion of the hair. As you see I'm drawing on here to kind of get the feel of how the hair lays down and girls here personally, I like to use girls and many of my pictures of drawings that that gives more active and makes more of a interesting use of ink, especially with brushes. So what I want to see mostly is a Familiarization with the photo that you've chosen eso. It's not so hard to grasp those details. 4. Ink Drawing - Sketching: closing. See, I'm starting out drawing my sketch here. I'm using my blue lead pencil Mechanical pencil. I love mechanical pencils because they have a continuous love leg. You don't have to stop it sharpen, and they're less messy. Plus, I like using colored lead because even if the marks do show up through your work, it doesn't really look that to me. I kind of like the look of seeing the pencils underneath what I'm doing. And if it's colored lead, it looks even better off camera. Here I have my phone set up with my reference group for showing so that I can refer back to it as many times as I need. You should always be referring back and forth from your drawing to your reference. Also, with the phone, you're able to enlarge the picture in certain areas, like with the eyes to see better what the details look like up close. I would recommend always doing life studies wherever you can to familiarize yourself with the human body in general, just as a general practice for artists, we should always be working on those fundamentals way. You may notice that I am not drink much of racing in this drawing. That is something that also helps you practice with getting form and lines down right the first time. You really do have to practice a lot withdrawing various parts of the anatomy and various shapes. And just like I said, drawing in general, um, for practice, Um, with the blue led in particular, that is also one of the drawbacks. If you do like erasing the colored leads for mechanical pencils are a bit tougher to erase . They can be a race, but they still show a bit of fine color in the paper. So if we're gonna use colored lead, I would revise too. Practice a lot with it. And be sure that you are putting down the marks that you want to stay because there will be very little room for erasing with this now that we're getting into the hair portion of the drawing. This is where the preliminary work with becoming familiar with your photo with the lines that you see happening in the reference photo. This is where it comes in handy knowing where you're gonna lay down your lines, getting a feel for how the lines will flow for me. The hair is always the crowning point of the drawing for me, and especially when you're working with being big brushes, especially, you have what's called line weights, which will get you later. But the hair comes more live with different line weights that you get from the brushes, which is basically saying that the thin toe thick mark making that you do brings a little bit more life to drawing a little bit more interest to the drawing, as opposed to flat one wait lines that you would get from a pen. Now that I have her mostly drawn and finished in sketch, you can go back and shade if you want to. Some of the shading will be covered with some think washes that we can do and may just be covered. Also impure blacks and may not see them. But you don't have to shade if you're not really sure yet where you want the shading to happen. Sometimes when you start drawing in ink over pencil, you change your mind about where you want to see certain lights and darks, and also because of the difference between the light pencil and the dark black ink you're drawing may sort of change in a way that you may want to look a certain way because of the way the ink looks and how different it is from the pencil. So just you don't have to do that part unless you're really sure where you want to put the dark colors and washes. 5. Ink Drawing - Using Different Ink Tools: So as we get into the main portion of the video with the inking, I just want to remind you that a lot of this is suggestion. A lot of people have their preferences as to how they like to ink work. Like I said before, I personally prefer using brushes over Penn's. But in the video, I will show various ways to get thes same effects using pen and brush. I will be using all of them on this, trying just to show or demonstrate how they each work and how they can be used together. In the beginning, I'll be mapping out the line work with the micron pens in various Nibs. I personally like a very small, never been inside of one or two, a medium size and the size five, maybe sometimes a three and then a very thick size and an eight, and anything bigger than that, I might as well just go with a brush. It was the beginning. Here. I'll be putting in the basic lines. What I want to do here is make sure that I get the fine details in the work with the fine nib pen. - Now I would like to point out the use of a pen. You won't get very many various line weight, but as you can see, you can work with that. You can create different line. Lot's going over the lines that done and slightly making them thicker in various places where the shadow of the weight of the figure would hold more gravity. So I know the face area, and especially on the neck, the lines could be a little bit thicker there because later on, when you come in to put in the hair, those minds may start to disappear that thin. So that's actually where you gonna put in a lot of shadow because back from the neck area, the tomb and the draw is covering the neck, and the hair is shading some of the neck and lower face. So those areas you want to be kind of victor thank the rest of the face because they're gonna hold a little shadow, and that thicker line is gonna indicate I'll heaviness and a shadowy nous to that area. I'm gonna come in and show you what I mean by using line late with the brush pen. It makes it so much easier with a brush to start out the line thick or thin as you like. It usually start thin and then dragged the line out gently, pressing the brush a little harder into the paper just gently, and it creates a thicker line, in which case you're kind of making your thin and thick lines a little bit easier to create with a brush, whereas with a pen you would need to go over the line multiple times to make it as thick as you could get with the brush. And like I said, this creates a little bit more interest in your drawing. It creates a little bit more flow. Um, you could get the indication of shadow, like I said before with the neck area. So in a lot of the hair, you're gonna have a lot of the hair catching light and catching shadow, and you could decide based on your reference picture. Or you can decide on your own where you want those lights and darks to be so in the dark areas, you would have a little bit of a heavier hand, putting in the darker line weights and then as it flows into the light. You would get lighter lines with the pen, so just alternating the thick and thin lines that you're putting done in the hair will create a lot of more flow. And it looks as if it does have a little bit more life and more movement to it. - Now is an alternative option to the pinto pocket brush. I'm gonna show you using a regular liner brush liner brush, usually long and then, so they can create long, thin lines that can also create thicker lines, just as you could with the brush. These are little bit more difficult to use because of the link of the brush. Um, it can make the natural snapping of the brush when it tries to come back into shape, you know? Asked after you press it down into the paper, ill will want to snap back into shape. So can be a little bit more difficult to use a brush. Do recommend trying this out a few times and kind of getting familiar with it, even though I have used brushes quite often, especially in painting, Um, I usually generally trying to stick to the brush pens, Um, but I do like some of the things that I can do with an actual brush and so you can see, even though have used it quite a bit. It does take a minute to kind of get into the groove of it, and it seems one of my lines are just like a little shaky. But you can see I can still kind of get the same results with on actual brushes he could with the brush pan, and especially getting a little bit of the longer, thinner lines that you may not be able to get with the much thicker brush pin. So the size brush that you use will be will be an indicator will be a factor. When you're trying to do the thinking deadlines, you just kind of have to use your own preference. I also I would say that you want to use, uh, cheaper brushes, especially to start out. If we're learning how to do this, I would buy the cheaper brushes that you can get at Hobby Lobby and Michael's. Don't use expensive rushes for this because the kind of ink, especially if you're gonna use this black start ink it is waterproof, and it is permanent. So you don't want to risk letting that Inca dry on your brushes because it will ruin them. So using cheap brushes with the expensive Inc will be just fine for learning purposes. You can still get great works of art, even if you're doing finished drawings out of them. You just don't want to ruin some good brushes with, um during mistakes or accidentally leaving it out to dry. It may ruin the brush completely, So please make sure using the water in between, I usually wash my brushes off in a glass of water and it will blacken that water. So you may have to, like, empty a lot. But I would rather have you know, that sort of ah process than to risk letting any of that ink dry on the brush. Now with the brush pen, pocket brush pendant amusing right here. You don't get that drying of the ink as long as you put the cap back on. So you always make sure your Penis is well capped. Um, you may have seen me use a small a small little cup. That's a very, very small cup I got from the art stores. Well, It has a little plastic lid that's airtight, so I can keep Inc in there as opposed to opening my main bottle of Dr Page Martin's Black Starting now, I want to give you an ink tip here as you can see what I did with darkening the areas with my pen tell brush there, in the lower part of the hair, I left some of the lines, uh, white, so that is a little tricky conduce with eat, and especially when I'm talking about the line waits with the thick and thin lines. You could also create that effect when darkening areas by leaving some of your white spaces . Like I left some of the strands of hair white within that dark area, instead of coloring the whole area black. That is going to create a lot of depth and a lot of interest there in that area, because you see, is the shadow deepens. There you have lights still reaching some of the strands of hair that are coming into the forefront, and you can create some of that thick and thin line just by leaving some of the white as well. You know, it's almost as if you're creating, You know that positive space with something that was negative before. So it's a little trick. Tried out with your own works in the shadows, kind of leaving some of the white in there and creating interest with dark darks and lights in the shadows as well. And that was gonna bring even more life to your work. The area with eyelashes. You could go in with just a pen again. I like having the various line waits within my the hair as well as the eyelashes. So I do use a brush pen sometimes with this, it is a little bit more difficult, but definitely like I said before, just practice. These things become easier as you go and same deal. Creating thick and thin lines with your your ink marks kind of mimics the effect. Unless cares is anyone who wears makeup will tell you it is very difficult to put this stuff on it. It does a lot of practice, and I would say it takes no less practice trying to recreate that effect in a drawing. Now, same concept here with the eyes, as in using the whites of the hair you want to not color in the whole I black. It can literally blacked when it's all black. So here I'm actually just kind of squiggling in some lines to kind of kind of illustrate the reflection, perhaps, of what she's looking at. There's, you know, reflections in the eyes. And so you want Teoh not create just a flat color or flat black within the I. You want to create interest there as well. The eyes are usually with the first thing people look at. We need to looking at a real person or looking at a drawing on. The more interest that you can create there, the better the more life you'll have in drawing and in the person that you're drawing us well. And I'm coming in here for the first time with the white gel pen. There's various pens you can use that I'm probably more opaque, white. I just kind of like the white gel pen because it times it is a little transparent when I need it to be. And then I could just go in a little a few more times to make it more pick if I need to. But I like having the option of whether I want t o market. Another 200 detrimental. And in the beginning was this drawing tool I used for drawing my watercolors or inks was actually a dryer that I picked up from believe. It's called paper source, and it's actually for using with stamping and embossing, and it it hardens and melts. The embossing powders into paper is very, very high heat. It is not like a hairdryer. That's a whole different story. But it is a very separate tool from a hair dryer is very, very high heat and fast, very focused heat. And so that could be helpful if you're painting or using it, drawings with making sure that your areas are dry just in case you accidentally smudge them . Um, I would always use that in between, you know, resting periods so that you make sure that what you've just done is dry. I'm not sure if you would call this an inking tip or not, but I have discovered that I loved using or re using tens, especially from like those Altoids can or, um, for many tent like small tens that you can use that for painting. Um, a lot of artists used these to put small paint paint drops in for traveling. Um, I find that I like using these were ink washes. It is important to note that the Black Star Inc is very, very dark, so it would take a lot of water to create light ink washes, which is what I'm trying to do here. It may take a few tries, and you might want to have a scrap piece of paper to work on just to test the the darkness that you're trying to achieve here. But, um, a little bit a little bit of the ink goes a long way when you're trying to do washing. So basically what you're doing is just adding water to dilute the ink a little more to make it more gray, Um, and in effect, creating just a wash of ink over what you're doing to create shadows. - It should go without saying that this is not erase herbal again. You want to make sure where you're putting these lines down. Where you going? These washes down that that is where you want them to stay again. That's comes with practice. I would definitely recommend watering down this ink quite a lot to get the lightest possible gray that you could get so that if there is any type of mistake or error, it's not as notice ruling. It will be as big a deal, and you can always come back in darker and darker and darker with each layer. Um, definitely put layers over each to create more depth and more shadow as you see fit. But I was always start light first and then work down into the dark. That way you can correct any mistakes slightly later, it won't be as noticeable or as big a deal. Once you start adding more and more shadow ink, washing is probably not something you're going to see. A lot of anchors dio. Just because usually thinking is, goes on to a color meth, especially doing dealing with comic books. You have an anchor that does the ink lines, and then you'll have the color done later. But, um, if you just want a black and white ink work, I really love doing ink washes to create a little bit more depth in the drawing. You can also, instead of doing ink washes, is just do small lines. It's called cross hatching. So basically using all lines all Inc to create the shadows and depth personally as a watercolor artists. Mostly I love doing the washes with the ink. Um, reminds me more of watercolor and getting the layers down, getting a form down. I really like the look of ink with ink washes. 6. Ink Drawing - Notes: At this point, you could stop and have a very well rounded drawing on your hands. It all has very nice lions. Very nice. Weren't line waits, uh, details and light washes of ink, which bring out a lot of the form of the face. However, I like to take it a little bit further and have something a little bit more unique on your hands. This is where I would bring in the late pin in different colors and the jelly roll ink pens in different colors as well. And jelly roll goes really well over dark services, especially black ink. Um, see, when we did the white, the white is a little bit more translucent, so it will take a little bit more white, too black out the black. But the colors are a little bit more opaque because the colors have a lot more pigment in them. So once you use like a bright hot pink or a blue, you can get a lot of really cool effects with the gel ink over the black. Most would agree that this is probably good stopping point for most people. We can carry it on a little bit further uh, in the later videos here, where I will be darkening in the hair more and at which point you can use some of the Joe pens if you have them to add colorful highlights. I ended up not doing that in the final work because I was too in love with. It does happen sometimes definitely stop here if you like, or let's carry on a little bit. 7. Ink Drawing - Further Technique : So as you can see, I'm kind of carrying on the technique of the shadows here just to darken the hair overall. So there has really great lines, So I'm just gonna be following within the white spaces and kind of lightly coloring in some spaces and also leaving some white spaces. I said before, You don't want to lose some of your your shape and your flow, so you have to leave some of the white there to indicate the flow of the hair colored on black. You're not gonna be able to see anything. So you do. Don't we need to leave some of the white showing as lines or as highlighted areas? You basically just want to be sure that you're still able to see the directions in which the girls of hair going are in the direction that your hair that you chose is going. Um, like I said, this comes with studying your photo and and knowing the directions of the lines that you want to take andan implying that while you're going, you can take liberties as an artist. Make up some things are do whatever you want, But I would just say keep in mind that you want to make sure you can still see where the hair is flowing. - So here already, you can see the difference that taking the ink a little bit further makes creating a deeper shadow. A darker color of hair Drawing was great before. You could have easily just left it alone like that. But taking in a different direction, being a little bit more courageous with the ink and applying more of it can create a really different and really nice result as well. Now how she before the drawing looks like she had, um, lighter colored hair. You could have taken that and colored it in with watercolor or markers or anything else. Um, that is another reason I like using water proof. EEG is because I do use watercolors over the drawings quite a bit, so that does help a lot having waterproof ink. And if you do want to keep with the black drawing alone without adding color than definitely taking it further with the darks and with darker colored hair like this will add a lot of depth, depth and dimension and interest to the pieces well, versus leaving it just lines alone. - And as we mentioned in the previous videos that I do like seeing the blue lines show up through my work. I think it adds a little bit more dimension and slight bit of color. You can go back and erase those lines. They probably won't erase that well, but they will definitely get lighter. 8. Ink Drawing - Conclusion: So that's it for this lesson. Guys, thanks so much for watching and please feel free to follow me on social media to see other artworks that I create in inks watercolors. I do various fantasy portrait. It's I hope you enjoy this sort of unique approach to thinking and thinking. Portrait's Remember that using reference is okay for practice. I would like to see everyone's Midway works in this project. In the project notes in the project section. Please show me where you decided to stop, where you thought maybe your drawing technique or your drawing style was going to be expressed fully. Please, let's show them and upload them into the class projects so that I can see everyone's final works. That's it for now. Thanks a lot.