Scratchboard

American Artist Douglas Smith studied Sculpture, Painting and Printmaking, but his main love was for Illustrations and telling a story. Below and above are examples of his Drawings, Illustrations made with the use of the Scratchboard medium. Scratchboard is defined by Wikipedia as "Sharp knives and tools that are used for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink". For the coloured ones, more layers of clay in different colours are laid, so that the…

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Using mostly black and white to create his pieces, American artist Michael Halbert produces incredibly detailed scratchboard illustrations with an engraved woodcut look. “For simplicity,…

Untitled 2011 (Artist?) Could interpret for a black/white portrait drawing with beginners... contour plus pattern... love the close up... glue on black paper background/border:

Дуглас Смит начал рисовать рано. Для него наиболее привлекательным аспектом в творчестве является повествовательный стиль. Его работы часто выбираются для выставок Общества иллюстраторов, Ежегодного искусства иллюстрации, американской иллюстрации, Регионального Дизайна полиграфической…

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