Dec 13, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, Charcoal, drawing, Drawing hair, farm, filly, gelding, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, stallion, values
The glossy sheen the hair on the neck creates a neat rippling effect. It’s a beautiful, clean, and wonderfully natural look. However, this look is very difficult to give justice using graphite as a medium. I must get enough contrast to make the off-white of the paper look like reflected sun. I need a little help [...]
Oct 13, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, bridle, Charcoal, charcoal drawing, Charcoal Portrait, drawing, Drawing hair, farm, filly, gelding, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, stallion
Continuing the shading process down the muzzle, I also work on the leather straps of the bridle and the beginnings of the upper neck . Leather, especially shiny, yet worn leather, requires some intricate work to pull off the look. You tend to think of minor elements of a drawing are more or less one [...]
Oct 10, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, Charcoal, charcoal drawing, Charcoal Portrait, Contrast, drawing, Drawing hair, farm, filly, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, values
Here I continue down the muzzle, again reaching for very deep darks for the necessary contrast this drawing demands. The whitest I can get is the white of the paper so those blacks need to be fully saturated. Again I utilize the Kimberly 9xxb to burnish over a wash of charcoal. This horse’s white star [...]
Aug 31, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, burnishing, Charcoal, charcoal drawing, Charcoal Portrait, drawing, farm, filly, gelding, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, stallion, values
Since I am right handed, I generally begin shading a picture from the upper left of a drawing and work my way down and to the right. Often I need to rework areas, but I try to limit how much my hands will come into contact with shaded areas. Even with a paper shield, smudging [...]
Apr 6, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, blending, drawing, Drawing fur, Drawing hair, drawing wrinkles, farm, filly, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, stallion
As I move down the face, my blending becomes increasingly refined to give the illusion of finer and finer hairs, down to the bare skin of the muzzle. It becomes more important to focus on the little details such as wrinkles surrounding the lips to give the portrait life. This takes me a good deal [...]
Mar 27, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, colt, drawing, Drawing hair, farm, filly, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, stallion
While I love the expressive eyes of this animal, the veins and muscles are what make this picture come alive for me. The jowl is getting to the value saturation I’ll be comfortable with and the contrast between the mane and forehead is developing. It is difficult to get a natural looking contrast between the [...]
Mar 21, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, colt, drawing, Drawing hair, farm, filly, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, hatching, Horse, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, realistic, shading, stallion
The deep darkness of the ears is mirrored in the eyes to catch interest and direct the focus onto the face. For these darks I am using Kimberly 9xxb pencils along with 2b Staedler Mars Lumographs. I am keeping conscious of the desired contrast here, and not over doing the darks giving a nice transition [...]
Mar 15, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, barn, colt, drawing, Drawing hair, equine, farm, filly, gelding, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, Horse, mane, mare, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, ranch, realistic, shading, stable, stallion
In drawing the neck I do not overemphasize detail. I want to get a good roundness to the form and accurately depict the shapes and shadows of the muscles, but I want the focus of this drawing to lead forward to the face. The ears will have some deep shadows which will be a convenient [...]
Feb 21, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: algae, broken, delapidated, farm, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, lichen, pencil, pencil drawing, pick-up, realistic, shading, Truck, vehicle
This is the completed drawing. I decided to shade the background lightly to bring out the highlights of the body of the truck. I also seated the vehicle into the grass, but didn’t add too much vegetation. The remaining parts of the tuck bed, gas tank and rear wheels were put in, but I simplified [...]
Feb 19, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: algae, broken, delapidated, drawing, farm, glass, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Headlights, lichen, moss, pencil, pencil drawing, pick-up, realistic, shading, Truck, vehicle
Moving onto the interior of the truck and the weathered wooden boards I am using b, 2b and 6b pencils to get the grain of the wood as well as the interior of the cab. The cab’s interior is one of the aspects of this subject that attracted me to draw it. It is basically [...]
