Ink Drawing the Male Face & Creative Techniques

1. Introduction: everyone. Thanks for stopping it again for another lesson in drying today will be doing a male face and ink from reference. Today I'll be showing you again how to find a model on the Internet that these air for practice purposes only. Taking your own pictures is always best. Taking pictures of yourself and using yourself as reference is super cool idea. Um, pretty fun. And it's very helpful. I can always count on yourself to be around the model. If you need Teoh, today's lesson will go by pretty quick. If you saw the previous lesson on the female face, I did a very real time video of that. This lesson. I'm going to skim over the basic elements that I went over already in the first video and kind of jump into more experimental ideas with ink. There are some tools I didn't get to go over in the first video, such as gel ink transfers and using colored ings of various types. Again, there are a lot of ink options out there for you. I would suggest using as many of the options as you can. You may find that you prefer one over the other you may find that your style shows better through one type of ink over another. So definitely a lot of options to try. So throw your hat in with whatever you want to use in this video and let's get started. 2. Materials: materials will be pretty much the same as the last for you brushes colored penso gel pens, micron pens, brush pens, whatever your choices, along with ink to go with brushes and dip pens and depended on covered with the come in various colors. Ah, heater and a tablet device. A projector for tracing, tracing paper vellum, which is a good alternative, and your alarm, which is clear plastic balconies for different effects. 3. Inking the Male Face from Reference: So just as we studied before, we want to get a reference image. I prefer using Pinterest for this, uh, just type in male model face or model reference or something of the sort of switch up results. We don't have to use countries, but one of my absolute prefer I'll take a screenshot. After getting adjusting the image for full screen, they undertook a screenshot way you can move on to edit, taking the image I use mark up on my iPhone. Just draw lines on the image I've shown. I did it so I can get familiar with the face where things are in relation to others like eyes to the full phase, as well as the nose and the mouth where the ears lineup and especially what direction the hair is falling in around the face you. - Now we have our image. Call ain't up, and we can move on to some more experimental techniques using tracing paper Vallon, Dural are and others 4. Alternate Methods & Experimentation: so there a number of different tools and media you can use in your ink projects and drawings. You could use tools such as a light pad or a projector with the image on a USB. The easiest method would be to use tracing paper, and for this particular video, I will be using vellum, which is a type of tracing paper. But it is actually made from plastic, and it is a very translucent material that shows through any drawing underneath it because it is a little bit more durable. The tracing paper tracing paper is just meant to be a tool for putting down something very quickly and easily, and it's easily discarded and is very much like newspaper in which it it's not meant to be archival anyway. However, using vellum is much more archival as it is a plastic, so it will last a lot longer suggestions to keep it or use it. For heavier methods, such as I'm doing with drawing with different media, which may rip into regular tracing paper. These 1st 2 tracings are appreciate for it. I'm just using a black micron pen, and in this part right here I'm using a blue micron pen. Um, so this is pretty cool when you want to check out different colors of ink and how they change or drawing or improve it, or can just give you some variety if you are actually using, um, if you actually using all of the images together for another artwork altogether, I said before, I do want to keep these tracings because I do intend to use them later and later lessons when I talk about using vellum and mixed media, So I do want to keep these for later use. And so that's why I'm using something a bit heavier, like vellum instead of the lighter tracing paper. I always like that effect that vellum has when putting it over my drawing. But at this point, you can fill in the hair with e liquid or color it in with whatever color, include shoes, um, to finish our for drawing or two to try out different colors. There's a tool I don't think I covered in my last video, but this is, um, a dip dip pen. I usually come as a holder, Um, and then you by separate neighbors to go into the holder, depending on the size and shape and line. Wait, Do you want to achieve when you're writing or drawing? I'm also showing colored ink. This is Higgins talkers, turquoise colored ink and you dip the name into the ink and then you write with it or draw with the design, but about to do here now, this may take a little bit of practice. It's a little bit different than the brush and using a pan because the nib itself is made of metal, and the way it works is it holds ink in a small little well, a little opening in the cut out in the metal and it distributes the ink through the point when you press it to the paper. Um, when you actually use one Ah, you'll see what I mean. But I can put a little close up here so you can kind of see that. But basically what I'm gonna do here is used a dip pen in this turquoise colored ink to draw out on trace my image again. And then you see a little bit later and you make a little mistake because the ink wasn't flowing as well as I wanted it to, and I shook the dip in a little bit. But it's OK because I was planning on using, you know, extra ink on it anyway to do the color shadows. I will say that is one of my pet peeves with using a dip in is that there is not a whole lot of control in the ink flow, as much is with a brush. I do like the different line waits on the control of line that to depend offers. But the flow of the ink is not as consistent, and it does require a lot of dipping, which can be a bit bothersome. Annoying to some thes fourth iteration of our traced drawing here is going to be the most colorful. This is going to be, um, using the late Penn in the pink color, and I will also be using the blue one as well, as well as different colored jelly roll gel pens, As you can see, lined up at the top of the frame. I also have a few different color pens from die. So which is Ah, a Japanese dollar store. These pins are like a dollar 50 and very cheap, and I usually like to use them in drawing, um, and during in my sketchbook. And they are actually really great for drawing in a bullet journal, which I may also cover in a later video. Uh, for these other colors is not gonna be much rhyme or reason for their placement. It's kind of just what is aesthetically pleasing to me. I have done this before plenty of times in my sketchbook just playing around with color, mixing the color pens. Sometimes they create new colors in the mixing, but you get a lot of really cold effects and very colorful drawings out of using different colored pans and different media like this. Now, using jelly roll colors starting with green in the eyes is really gonna make the eyes pop. If you're not familiar with jelly roll pens, they are very Opaque, Inc. Which means actually really good for drawing on dark services. So if you did happen to color in the hair all in black or a dark color, you'd be able to go over your lines or to highlight lines with the Joe Penn and it would show over dark color. And it's really good for that. Bringing out highlights and coloring over dark surfaces. I will have to stipulate that they are not all met for that. So there is a particular line of Julie Rowe pens called Moonlight, and they're marked on the cap with a symbol. Now a lot of the symbols indicate the moonlight effect. The indicate glitter effect. They indicate metallic effects. So you just have to be careful, which, when you get and make sure getting the right one for the use that you need it for way. - So who inspired you to try some of your own drawings? We have different beaks and different media because you can really get some really cool effects. You can also experiment a lot with your drawings by trying out different colors. Eso You don't have to feel like you have to stick with one media, one type of drawing because experimentation is very key and important in making art. So the last section here I want to show you the dural are clear plastic film. I actually just use colored acrylic paint and painted directly on the film. I also have some X platters, different writing materials on the plastic, and I usually used these to see how they go well over certain drawings. And you can turn this into a mixed media drawing by layering your drawings on different stacks of vellum or film and seeing how they all come together as a final product. I think this is a really cool way to take drying Teoh the next level. 5. Conclusion: I hope this lesson has opened up a few doors for you creatively and inspired you to create something in your own style and in your own way, using unique tools to you and will help you to be more confident in creating portrait works , an EKG or fun comic Illustrated words and EQ on your own and vote for you to follow me on social media. Thanks for watching again and I'll see you in the next one.