How to texture like Gustave Doré | Master Study
Watch 4 quick studies of Gustave Doré textures and how I incorporate those into a final pen and ink piece using a traditional crow quill.
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⏰ TIMING
00:15 - Fables of Perrault
00:26 - Dante’s Divine Comedy
01:06 - Texture Studies
02:55 - Coppertist.Wu Shout Out
04:36 - Final Artwork with Doré Textures
A special note about Doré's engraving process from Artist Eli Edward Evangelidis (@eliedwardart on IG): “Lithography with limestone blocks - one of them was reported 17m tall by Doré’s and his team so bear in mind perspectives. He also used a variety of materials to scratch out various sections including fabric pressing for sky and ground sections. Also, he produced many with what we call crayons today or candle wax. It achieves a timeless result but learning pen and ink via this method certainly brings out so many techniques and methods to advance the artist. Doré will forever be a significant influence on my career as an illustrator :) Great work in practicing his renderings.” Here's an article (in French) about the engraving process: essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/article/c0108215-3f0d-4746-9b6f-9dab911ba7d9-gustave-dore-et-ses-graveurs
these old techniques can often feel like a lost alchemy, but your powers of explanation are very illuminating. thank you
Much appreciated!
His clouds are absolutely unbelievable.
I liked how she mentioned that she added the eclipse just because she saw one over her house. She says it so casually like "oh I found a bee on a flower in the park the other day". As if it was the most casual thing in existance. 😂😂 You can tell she loves to daydream.... I will subscribe.
Haha! It happened exactly as you describe it 😄
Thanks for explaining his techniques. I discovered his work at a publisher I worked for because they published books of his art. Doré’s Paradise Lost artwork is phenomenal.
That's gorgeous. And I love your take with the crow people!
Beautifully done! I hadn't even heard of Dore before, his works are incredible!
Wow, impressive! I have a couple of big books illustrated by Doré, but never had the courage to try copying his work. Never even scrutinized it the way you do. Your tip in one of your other videos about starting with a well-chosen small part to copy is especially appropriate here. Your drawing is great, and so is your teaching. Short videos, straight to the point. You also reminded me of two things: "be daring and don't fear failure". Thanks!
Thank you, much appreciated. 😊
Dore is amazing. I love seeing the lineage from Dore to Booth to Wrightson. Great video!
Boooiiiinnneeeeh!!!
This is absolutely stunning and I’m so happy the algorithm sent me your way! It’s refreshing to see an artist not afraid of saying she’s still learning and even more, showing the process. I guess you got a new subscriber! 😊
Thank you so much!!
This is exactly what i was looking for to study! Thanks for the clear explanation and youtube for the timely recommendation haha
You're very welcome! I've also learned a lot by doing these master studies for KZhead, and it's super enjoyable.
Doing this is probably the best way for me to create something I enjoy while also doing really effective, deliberate practice. Thank you so much for sharing!
Your narration is so well thought out! Native speaker here, but i actually slowed speed to 75% to absorb every word of your succinct phrasing. Breath taking work, of course!
That's kind of you to say. I try to speak a bit slower and enunciate to counter for my faint French accent.
@@longstrideillustration Whaaat!!!! I assumed you were "American".
You are amazing, thank you. I love that you included something like the five steps in your process, because this is something that I know I should be doing, but that I always skip! So thanks for the reminder.
Once in a while, the algorithm works... I am so glad it put you in front of me. This video is excellent and your ink work is beautiful.
Thank you very much!
This was not a study it was a dissection. Such great work and such great explainations. I wanna do this with my favourite illustrator who is hirohiko araki.
He is the Japanese Michelangelo! 👌
An excellent study with a beautiful demo. I also feel Bernie Wrightson and Frank Cho are also artistic descendants of this style. Cho does some amazing pen and ink work, even with ballpoint. I'll have to pick up a book on Doré!
Both Bernie wrightson and Cho are mimicking Franklin Booth in their style. I would highly recommend picking up his book from Flesk publishing.
I think Alfredo Alcala has a slightly more stylized technique but during the larger B/W magazine heyday he made me happy inking Conan and other things.
Thank beloved this is and ancient wonder for me. I love the skill of these techniques also.
Gorgeous! And the art was nice, too!
Glad you think so!
Really awesome! Dore's work has always fascinated me, long before I considered doing anything with art. I'm also always amazed at your skill when it comes to pen and ink drawings. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
I appreciate that, Doré's work is intense.
I've always wanted to start training Dore's technique, your video inspired me and brought me great undersanding of his technique
It boggles my mind. Hats off to anyone who can do that. Looks like much harder work than painting or pencil drawing. Far less scope for correcting errors.
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Very useful video, just what I needed! Thank you, your drawing is lovely!
Always enjoy your studies!❤
I first came across Dore some time ago when I found his book on London. I was struck by his technique and the amount of detail he put into his drawings as well as how beautify rendered they are. From then on I have been an admirer of his work. One of his illustration of the dockland warehouses from his book Dore's London did get me puzzled though. It shows warehouse workers stood in the entrance to one of the floors of a warehouse waiting for a load being lifted up to them. There is a large crate being hoisted up and other various ropes being used. The thing that puzzled was one rope, obviously under tension, passed down behind the crate but did not come out below it. It would seem that even for Dore the amount of detail could be too much.
That's the joy of traditional art, no "undo" ... my guess is the mistake happened near the end of the piece, tired under a tight deadline 😅
@@longstrideillustration I think there are times in life where an "undo" button would be very handy. It may well be that it happened as you say. And I do seem to remember something about him being late in completing the drawings which held up publication. So it would not be surprising if the publisher was pushing him to finish them.
awesome ! very inspiring, I really like watching your process of studying from masters, its makes easy to start doing it on my own. A lot of knowledge in this one - related to shadow mapping and technique of it
Another great video. Very helpful to know that he'd keep his lines relatively parallel but vary the width of the mark! Not an obvious or intuitive choice, but the results look amazing.
His spacing was perfectly executed as well, and that contributes to the micro nuances of tone.
Exquisite details to practice and hope to came close to their quality! Thank you! Your work is amazing!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your techniques with us :D
I really love these masterclasses. Trying to learn by copying can be overwhelming, so focusing in to understand the mark making rather than trying to replicate a full image is such a great approach.
Great to hear! Thank you :)
Excellent work! Thank you!
Incredible skill!
This artstyle is so so beautiful, i firts saw it in a book of gree mythos and it flabbegasted me, when i found out the book The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, also called The Demon Doodles i got my hands on a copy pretty fast to see those beautiful lines working as textures and shadows.
That's a fun book! Drawn in the 1500s. Very cool.
Wow very helpful , wonderful and inspiring ❤
I was waiting for something like this. His pieces are so beautiful
Incredible !
I love this technique. Thank you so much !!!
Contour hatching was always what I was trying to do but didn't have as examples of how to restrain it. Miura of Berserk fame is an absolute master of it and greatly has influenced me.
That makes sense since Doré is one of the influences of Miura.
charming and useful!
Very useful tutorial, very good job!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, that's will help to improve my skills
what an incredible, beautiful tutorial. its got me totally inspired, and im not usually a pen and ink guy! deffo new sub
Yay! Thank you 😊
Love the video,thanks!😊
wow! this is great!!! the lines you're studying make me think Moebius and Milo Manara had studied those same lines during their development..
They likely did, I recognize Doré's influence in many others' works.
really chill video..
Excellent approach. Step by step, I get it.
Amazing work!
These videos are great ! Would love to see one on Joseph Clement Cole
Wait this is AXTUSLLY SO COOL AND USEFUL THANK YOU FOR SHARING
I have two books of dore. And i make the same print techniques sometimes. Great artist doré
this is fascinating, I will defiantly be giving this a go ☺☺
Thank you very much, it's interesting
definitely subscribing for more, these are excellent and informative studies. Thank you!
Glad to hear, thank you.
Your drawing is amazing!
Thank you so much 😀
I love Dore. Your video is esquisit.
This is excellent ! I love Doré’s work and the engraving and woodcuts style of rendering. Would you consider making a video on Albrecht Dürer’s work? His ability to capture drapery is incredible.
Dürer is on my list for sure :)
@@longstrideillustration yay!
Oh no! I over slept and am 3 hours late to class!
I have been making abstract works using a technique like the one in the video. I am missing something though and I think this video helped me find what I am missing. I cannot wait to get home and try another piece with the new info I have.
That's awesome, hope it helps 👍😀
Impressive ! It would be interesting to make a video like this on Miura's technique
Cool video, thanks
I ❤ this. I think you could do this with a set of micron type pens in different widths. Like a 7/8 and a 3, and a 0.05.
I love this! So glad I discovered your channel, and am interested in your courses.
Awesome! Thank you! Course links are in the video description. Also subscribers to my monthly newsletter find out first about new releases, special offers, and learning resources: longstrideillustration.com/
Great!
Learned alot from japanese wood block artists then found Dore & Durrer ...strange DaVinci & Mucha coulda joined the engravers ah my masters thankyou EBabcock
I love your work and also this study. Really want to try it as ink is my medium. But I want to add one thing. THAT PEN HOLDER. OMG It looks awesome
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I would LOVE if you did a study on the late Kentaro Miura from Berserk. I am so interested in breaking down his art style and how he influenced so many mangas with his art.
I'm a big fan of Berserk, and will likely do more studies of Miura's techniques. You might be interested in this video where I demo a Guts piece in my style: kzhead.info/sun/odWvfJV_kaKkYIE/bejne.htmlsi=_xMsFx3infv0Jwj9 and a bit of analysis in this one: kzhead.info/sun/nMqcgMeAmYmNmXk/bejne.htmlsi=e8V4HNAuqTSFmbZC
If you are interested, I would highly suggest using white scratchboard. If you look up two great artists. 1. Michael Halbert and 2. Nico Delort. Both have videos on here and I believe that Michael’s are closer to traditional engraving. But Nico is of the Franklin Booth school. Both are masters of the white scracthboard and mimicking wood engraving.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Thanks from México...
Wow! Super suggestion de KZhead. Je m'abonne.
merci!
If man, I think that the designer who became popular in the most influential lines in the way we art finished hatching, at least for me, designers like Miura, Barry Windson Smith, Bernie Wrightson, Junji Ito, Katsuhiro Otomo... A bunch of guys I love line work He has a little lesson with the elder of the Divine Comedy, I even think that having this school and this video was a good first step of introduction.
For sure, those masters all went to "Doré School" 😀
Holy fuck. Its not been two months I started to learn drawing by myself and then this pops up in the feed lol
That's the "Big Brother" algorithm looking out for you 😉😀🖋
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This guy is a boss
Amazing work, that I call NI work - Natural Intelligence - tks for share, more one follower fro Brasil
Thank you very much!
you should try do some master studies of Francisco Solano Lopez, Alberto Breccia, Eduardo Risso or Enrique Alcatena. all fantastic comic book artists from argentina. Breccia, for example, was making some really experimental ink stuff in the 50's and 60's, 30 years before american comics did
Awesome, thank you for the suggestions!
great video, but I must correct you :) . it’s interesting to note that very few of these engravings were actually done by Doré himself. He hired a freelance engravers whole team of them in some cases :) it was a proper production line as it was almost a factory print :D
True! I had read that in my research, otherwise, that would have taken him 100th hours per illustration. Though he still did the underdrawing, kind of like modern-day pencilers and inkers, I bet he was a tough art director 😅
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Oh you collect dip pens I was in eBay for about 10 years looking for the perfect nibs Esterbrook falcon in my favorite. If you want to see some Amazing comic work check out the Covers of Cerebus the Ardvark by Dave Sim another guy Gerhard dud the background with hatching to write home about. Gerhard retired this past week from drawing.
it would be cool if you did an analysis of the inking style of mark schultz..
Mark Schultz is an interesting one, a retro vibe combined with contemporary hatching techniques. Very fun, thanks!
@@longstrideillustration I love his style! it's so soft and delicate..
This reminds me a lot of the manga Berserk
For sure, Miura was influenced by Doré, especially the creatures. I read it in an interview, though as you mention, we can see the influence in the illustrations. I'm a Berserk fan.
I'm pretty sure Dore didn't actually engrave his blocks himself. His designs were usually shopped out to tradesmen (in the divine comedy, the engraver's name is also included alongside Dore's signature). Note that, as wood engravings, the engraver is actually cutting the white lines and not the adding the black ones. And there's a reason the sky looks mechanical. By the 19th century, many commercial engravers were using ruling machines. Here's an example of one in action: kzhead.info/sun/a7Vqh6WpkIOJe4U/bejne.html
That's true, thanks for sharing that info for context about the process. To keep this video short - I pinned a comment at the top about the engraving process so that I could focus the content more on the line work exercise. I took the same approach that Booth did as a child, trying to replicate engravings with pen and ink. A great channel for historical facts on illustrators is @petebeard if you don't already follow him.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get this texture in digital art?
There's probably a brush pack for something like this. Someone in this community can hopefully help you out with a name.
You certainly know that Franklin Booth created his incredible technique by trying to emulate old engravings like Doré's that he saw on magazines because he basically didn't know those were engravings. Have you ever tried scratchboard?
I've never tried scratchboard, though I like the effects of it. I'm a huge Booth fan, so it made sense to spend time with Doré indeed.
GOD BLESS.
This should be good.
I posted a REEL on IG about Doré's techniques and it blew-up. A lot of Doré fans out there :)
For his work at ~3:35....how large was the original? I feel like it must have been huge in order to get that kind of detail, right? If was doing that on an ordinary sheet of paper, well then I'm starting to suspect witchcraft. 😆
I heard that the pieces were large yes, and that a group of artisans would do the engraving part using comb-like tools - which explains that "mechanical" look to some of the marks.
You a study on Robert Crumb
Not to sound arrogant but after drawing with Dürer s engravings, Doré feels really graceless, kind of like banknote. I think Doré s style was as frequent as photography back in the day, countless books were illustrated this way. What I find lower in Doré is the low quality of his drawing skill (after you’ve looked at Dürer and renaissance masters..). Thanks for lovely vid. PS you probably draw better than Doré..
Dürer is on my list 🙂
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Always appreciated 😊
That wasnt too dang shabby.
I’d swear those prints and their lines were woodcut…..
They were woodcut engravings, though a mix of techniques & materials. The last book he illustrated (Edgar Alan Poe's the Raven) was printed from metal plates.
@@longstrideillustration I wish I had an organised mind and the patience to take one step at a time, glad I found your channel.
I hope she knows that the engravings were scribble out and and printed, and not drawn..🤦♂
'She' does know, this is briefly mentioned in the intro and as a pinned comment. The key take away is that many of the great pen and ink masters we admire today were inspired by Doré's work and followed a similar "simulation" process to the one I demonstrate in this video.
Thank you!
we're not even close to achieving his mastery
Truth!
is it easier to use a dip pen for this technique
I'm more apt with a dip pen than a brush, so that's my tool of choice for line work. It's doable with other tools, like a fine liner, by going over the lines to thicken the weight - but more effort to keep the transitions looking smooth.
Just a quick question. Maybe a dumb one so bear with me a second. Is the linework we see not that of the engravers? Did the engravers not have to interpret Dore's drawing to make it printable, much like comic book inkers, and each engraver would have their own style? Did Dore do much of his own engraving?
It's a good question and has been the hot topic of conversation, you'll find more info in the top pinned comment. The short of it is that engravers were artisans and used different tools and methods to translate Doré's illustrations into printables. It's akin to him being the "penciler" with a team of "inkers" and assistants similar to a comic book production.