Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face
How to Use Your Materials: Shading and Hatching
A course by Gabriela Niko , Artist
Discover the fundamentals of portraiture by learning to draw facial features and tracking your progress in a sketchbook
- Best seller
- 95% positive reviews (2.5K)
- 119688 students
- Audio: English, English
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
About the video: How to Use Your Materials: Shading and Hatching
Overview
“In this lesson we’ll learn basic rules of shading and hatching - methods to describe light, shadow and form. ”
In this video lesson Gabriela Niko addresses the topic: How to Use Your Materials: Shading and Hatching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face. Discover the fundamentals of portraiture by learning to draw facial features and tracking your progress in a sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to Use Your Materials: Shading and Hatching In this lesson, I'll show you some shading and hatching techniques. Before we start, let me show you some materials that we'll use. The most important one is obviously the sketchbook. I like to use A4 Arteza sketchbook, with a textured paper. I like to use a few different sketchbooks, smaller and bigger, like this one. Some are better for cross-hatching, like with a smoother paper, and this one is good for mixed techniques. What I mean by mixed techniques, is that it gives me more freedom to experiment with shading, hatching, or other types of...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face
-
Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching
A course by Gabriela Niko
Gabriela Niko is a freelance artist based in Poland. Having grown up in a family of artists, her passion for drawing came at a very early age. She went on to study design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland, and started her professional career in sports apparel design. After almost a decade of working in the clothing design industry, she decided to leave her position as a designer and pursue drawing full time in 2020.
Gabriela uses her social media platforms to share her work and has quickly gained recognition by amassing over 350K followers on Instagram. She is currently a brand ambassador for Paper Concept, a Polish art store, and has completed a number of commissioned works, including book illustrations, tattoos, and logo designs.
- 95% positive reviews (2.5K)
- 119688 students
- 14 lessons (2h 23m)
- 44 additional resources (15 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, English
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
