Minggu, 09 Oktober 2011

Graphite Pencil Drawing Tutorial: Female Nose

Here is a female nose to go along with the female eye tutorial I did. This tutorial demonstrates how I render noses as realistically as I can, using mostly direct application of graphite. I hope you will find the following images and descriptions informative and helpful as a guide in drawing noses. Many thanks to Toni-Marie Hudson for the use of her picture as reference for this tutorial.
Step 1: Here is the outline on 8.2 x 10.1 cm (3.25″ x 4″) Canson paper. The highlights have also been lightly indicated.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 1
Step 2:  I’ve used a Chinese brush to apply the initial 2 or 3 layers of graphite powder. This brush produces a smoother effect than the soft brush I used in the eye tutorial. I applied the graphite powder in very light layers, adding more as needed. This is the base tone and it helps make additional layers of graphite tone smoother.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 2
Step 3: I began using a small soft brush for the edges and for the darker areas.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 3
Step 4:  Taking the kneaded eraser, I lightly and carefully, tap some of the tones off the highlights on the bridge of the nose, the ball of the nose, and below the nostrils. The Chinese brush was used to dull the highlights a little bit.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 4
Step 5: Using a 0.5 mm 2B Dong-A mechanical pencil, I drew the nostrils. Less pressure was used as I came near the skin below the nostrils.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 5
Step 6: Using a 0.5 mm HB Dong-A mechanical pencil, I began darkening the lower area of the nose. I also lessened the sharpness of the edges of the nostrils by gradually darkening the skin around them. To blend the tones, I used the small brush and a shop towel. It helps if the shop towel employed for blending and smoothening pencil marks is used. New, clean ones tend to pick up tone instead of spread them around.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 6
Step 7: More skin tones using the HB mechanical pencil were added to the middle and upper parts of the nose. Most of the outlines have been smudged off and erased at this point.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 7
Step 8: The skin on the sides of the nose and the nostril wings have been darkened. This created a more three-dimensional effect. For blending, I used the shop towel and the two brushes. A clean shop towel was used to lift excess graphite tone from the drawing. In this stage, I have also started making necessary corrections to capture the likeness of the subject.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 8
Step 9: The tones were further blended. It’s almost finished.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 9
Step 10: The final stage of the nose. For the finishing touches, the tools I used mainly were: a 0.5 mm 2B mechanical pencil with the tip sharpened using fine sandpaper — this was used for filling up light spots; a clean shop towel for lightening up graphite pencil tones; and a kneaded eraser for removing dark spots. Finalizing my “serious” works is usually the most difficult stage of the whole drawing process. It takes quite a long time to do as well.
Female Nose Pencil Drawing Tutorial Finished
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial of a female nose.
Happy drawing!

Graphite Pencil Drawing Tutorial: Female Eye

Graphite Pencil Drawing Tutorial: Female Eye

Posted by Faith Te on October 31st, 2007 Here is the first tutorial from Art Studio — a female eye. My method in graphite pencil drawing aims to render subjects as realistically as I can. The following is a step-by-step demonstration of how I draw eyes. While I very much hope that it helps you in drawing realistic eyes, do experiment and develop your own way of drawing. I myself sometimes do not follow some of the steps exactly as I like to experiment and try to find better ways of achieving a specific texture or effect. Before I begin, many thanks to Toni-Marie Hudson for the use of her picture. Toni-Marie does animal paintings in mixed media. Visit her web site to view her extremely realistic paintings.
Step 1: The outline on Canson Grain. Since the outline was very light and will likely be smudged off when I start rendering or shading, I have carefully and lightly retraced the lines with a soft pencil. In this case, a Faber-Castell 0.5 mm 2B mechanical pencil.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 1
Step 2: Using a soft brush dipped in small amounts of graphite powder, I cover the outline with two or three layers of tone. Any brush can be used as long as it produces a very smooth effect and fills in the tooth of the paper. I try to avoid getting tone on the highlight of the iris. If I do get any graphite there, I tap the area with a clean kneaded eraser.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 2
Step 3: Using a smaller version of the brush I used in the previous step, I begin forming the shapes of the eye by defining the darker areas.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 3
Step 4: With a kneaded eraser, I cleaned up the highlights.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 4
Step 5: I used a Dong-A 0.5 mm 2B mechanical pencil to draw the darkest areas like the pupil, shadow on the upper part of the iris and the crease of the upper eyelid.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 5
Step 6: Concentrating on the iris for now, I use a hard pencil (5H Staedtler) and fairly hard pressure to draw spokes originating from the pupil. This will keep the paper from absorbing a lot of graphite in the next stage.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 6
Step 7: Having used a 5H on the previous stage, I can now draw darker shades on the iris using a dark pencil (2B mechanical pencil). The reason why I use 2B is because it spreads more easily. The 5H is also to keep the tones very smooth when darker tones are added.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 7
Step 8: I further worked on the iris erasing and adding graphite as much as needed to create varied tones. Moving on to the white of the eye, it was also covered with a layer of 5H to create a smooth effect. Then I used a 2B mechanical pencil on the shadow areas to form the eyeball.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 8
Step 9: Here I began working on the skin. Using a 0.5 mm HB mechanical pencil and a light circular motion, I added tones to the upper eyelid and the surrounding skin — starting first on an area which will receive more graphite (in this case, the skin around the crease) and moving towards lighter areas. I used a shop towel and a brush to smoothen out rough spots.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 9
Step 10: Continued with the lower part of the skin.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 10
Step 11: Still continuing with the HB mechanical pencil. I’ve now added shadows to the skin. The 5H Staedtler pencil was also used on the thickness of the lower eyelid. 2B mechanical pencil was used for its darker areas.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 11
Step 12: To create the wrinkles on the skin, I lightly drew lines with the HB mechanical pencil and then used a kneaded eraser to create fine highlights beside each line. A paper stump and a brush were used to soften and blend the lines. The same method used on the white of the eye was also used on the tear duct. The HB was used for the eyebrow — starting with the root of each hair and lessening pressure towards the tip.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 12
Step 13: I always try to keep from drawing the eyelashes until the skin underneath is finished. Since the upper eyelashes will be darker than the lower eyelashes or the eyebrow, I used a Dong-A 2B mechanical pencil which is much darker than a Faber-Castell of the same grade. Again, following the direction of growth and starting from the root, lessening pressure as I come to the tip. Reflections of the eyelashes were also drawn on the highlight of the iris.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 13
Step 14: The lower eyelashes were drawn with the Faber-Castell 2B mechanical pencil.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step 14
Step 15: The final eye. Finishing touches were made and some of the highlights on the lower eyelid were dulled a little. I hope you find these steps and images informative and helpful.
Female Eye Pencil Drawing Tutorial Finished

Sabtu, 08 Oktober 2011

pengertian realisme

Realisme

Realisme di dalam seni rupa berarti usaha menampilkan subjek dalam suatu karya sebagaimana tampil dalam kehidupan sehari-hari tanpa tambahan embel-embel atau interpretasi tertentu. Maknanya bisa pula mengacu kepada usaha dalam seni rupa unruk memperlihatkan kebenaran, bahkan tanpa menyembunyikan hal yang buruk sekalipun.
Pembahasan realisme dalam seni rupa bisa pula mengacu kepada gerakan kebudayaan yang bermula di Perancis pada pertengahan abad 19. Namun karya dengan ide realisme sebenarnya sudah ada pada 2400 SM yang ditemukan di kota Lothal, yang sekarang lebih dikenal dengan nama India.

Realisme sebagai gerakan kebudayaan

Realisme menjadi terkenal sebagai gerakan kebudayaan di Perancis sebagai reaksi terhadap paham Romantisme yang telah mapan di pertengahan abad 19. Gerakan ini biasanya berhubungan erat dengan perjuangan sosial, reformasi politik, dan demokrasi.
Realisme kemudian mendominasi dunia seni rupa dan sastra di Perancis, Inggris, dan Amerika Serikat di sekitar tahun 1840 hingga 1880. Penganut sastra realisme dari Perancis meliputi nama Honoré de Balzac dan Stendhal. Sementara seniman realis yang terkenal adalah Gustave Courbet dan Jean François Millet.

Realisme dalam seni rupa

Perupa realis selalu berusaha menampilkan kehidupan sehari-hari dari karakter, suasana, dilema, dan objek, untuk mencapai tujuan Verisimilitude (sangat hidup). Perupa realis cenderung mengabaikan drama-drama teatrikal, subjek-subjek yang tampil dalam ruang yang terlalu luas, dan bentuk-bentuk klasik lainnya yang telah lebih dahulu populer saat itu.
Dalam pengertian lebih luas, usaha realisme akan selalu terjadi setiap kali perupa berusaha mengamati dan meniru bentuk-bentuk di alam secara akurat. Sebagai contoh, pelukis foto di zaman renaisans, Giotto bisa dikategorikan sebagai perupa dengan karya realis, karena karyanya telah dengan lebih baik meniru penampilan fisik dan volume benda lebih baik daripada yang telah diusahakan sejak zaman Gothic.
Kejujuran dalam menampilkan setiap detail objek terlihat pula dari karya-karya Rembrandt yang dikenal sebagai salah satu perupa realis terbaik. Kemudian pada abad 19, sebuah kelompok di Perancis yang dikenal dengan nama Barbizon School memusatkan pengamatan lebih dekat kepada alam, yag kemudian membuka jalan bagi berkembangnya impresionisme. Di Inggris, kelompok Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood menolak idealisme pengikut Raphael yang kemudian membawa kepada pendekatan yang lebih intens terhadap realisme.
Teknik Trompe l'oeil, adalah teknik seni rupa yang secara ekstrem memperlihatkan usaha perupa untuk menghadirkan konsep realisme.
Nikolai Ge. Conscience: Judas

Daftar pelukis realisme terkenal

Realisme dalam sinema

Italian Neorealism adalah gerakan sinematikyang memperjuangkan pemikiran realisme setelah era perang dunia kedua di Italia. Sineas realisme terkenal di antaranya Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, dan Roberto Rossellini.