Description
A longtime favourite method of artists and illustrators, scratchboard is a novel instance of “addition by way of subtraction.” Not like such a lot conventional drawing ways, the place the artist provides outlines, tones, and shadows, the scratchboard artist scrapes away the black ink to show the white floor beneath.
Scratchboard is recently playing one thing of a renaissance way to its reputation in picture novels, comics, commercials, and different wonderful artwork paperwork.
Mythical scratchboard artist and lecturer Ruth Lozner items an in-intensity have a look at this interesting artwork shape. Beginning with the fundamentals of scratchboard method, Lozner discusses combos of scratchboard with different media, and opens up this historically black-and-white medium to an entire new international of colour.
Packed with illustrations by way of well known and very talked-about scratchboard artists, Scratchboard for Illustration presentations the exceptional vary of this offbeat inventive method.
