6 Tips to Ink a Frazetta, Stress-free | Master Study

[@aldente3868]

Absolutely breathtaking.😊 It's always a good day to see the work of Frank Frazetta and this study did the Master justice! If I may ask could you explain what Holding Lines,Shadow Shape and Form Lighting are?

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks for watching, and the kind words. The short answer: Frazetta uses shading and lighting to communicate shape and form rather than drawing lines to define the contours of the shapes and forms. The long answer: Shape is the design of two-dimensional elements. Form is the three-dimensionality of an element. A contour line explains shapes to the viewer. A holding line explains forms. Frazetta doesn’t rely on contour or holding lines to explain shape and form. Instead, he uses shadows (dark values) to explain the shapes and lighting (highlights) to explain the forms. Hence the terms Shadow Shape and Form Lighting. He achieves this effect by juxtaposing contrasting elements (like the spear of Apeman no1 has one side that looks outlined because it has strong shadow and the form is created with the highlight, the holding line is implied by the surrounding elements but is not actually there). This creates an effect that is more engaging because the viewer is involved in understanding what is intended by the artist.

[@aldente3868]

@@longstrideillustration Thank you kindly for the explanation,Chloe!😊 Honestly these videos are a true blessing for a traditional artist in learning. Pen and ink is such and underrated medium but it's quite tricky to master!

[@caseyfrechette]

@@longstrideillustration Thanks very much for this explanation, and thanks to @aldente3868 for asking!

[@elliotspiselman5641]

I became a fan of Frazetta as a teen around 1968. I loved this video. I learned by tracing over his drawings and paintings, and those of a talented friend of mine who gave me many pencil works to ink over. Wonderful video!

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you!

[@ericgranata6664]

Nice to see a good study on Frazetta. Thanks for sharing.

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you liked it!

[@drunkbobo]

12:44 Did we just witnesss a murder?? 😂 I took a ton of inspiration from this lesson! Especially when you noted that you did take some liberties in the cross hatching style. I always have to remind myself I’m not (insert master here) when I’m working on studies of their work, and that it’s okay to add some of my own personal styles and techniques. The goal (for me) isn’t to become a copycat of their work, rather to understand how their techniques made a successful piece of art, and how I can apply some of that magic to my original works. You’re a great teacher!!

[@johnplatt3704]

For anatomy: Frazetta studied with Burne Hogarth (who he's much better than). Hogarth adored John Henry Fuseli, who taught among others Blake. I recommend looking at Fuseli if you like Heroic art. I've been trying to copy Duerer's The Mens' Bath House which I was led to by his (Duerer's) famous sketch of the right side of Mantegna's Battle of the Sea Gods. I do recommend spending time with all three.

[@longstrideillustration]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing your tips with the audience. Great masters! I'm quite familiar with that Bath House piece, it's epic, I bow to you 😊👍

[@MichaelTritt-v1l]

Thank You, Frazetta, has always ❤️ remained one of my all-time favorite Artists

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad that you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching!

[@borismajstorovic4129]

I love how humble you are when talk about your own skills. although your artistic skill and drawing capabilities and are on amazingly high level. Most of tutorial guys are uterlly useless, mostly bragging for nothing. Thank you for your videos and make some more pls... Could you eventually do Rembrandt, that would be interesting since he uses totally different line....

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you, I appreciate the encouraging words. Rembrandt, Da Vinci and some of the other master painters would be interesting indeed, thanks for the suggestion.

[@elisabeth00469]

First Gustave Dorè...and then Frazetta...Ma'am you are doing two of my favorite artist!!! Thank you thank you so much: since I began to draw my dream was to draw like Dorè...than my style is changed and now I'm trying to follow Frazetta, BUT I tried always to "study" the work of Dorè, and with your videos I'm sure I'll make it!! Thanks again my dear!!

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you liked the master studies, more to come!

[@Morraak]

I have that Frazetta artbook, it's SO worth it! One of my favorite artbooks, along with The Art of Michael Whelan.

[@longstrideillustration]

Nice! My wish list ever grows 😀

[@shamusteakiawa]

Nice video! I love Frazetta's black and white sketches!

[@ivanpergasiFreelance]

that was a very interesting way of analyzing and reproducing art with the understanding of it...Very great content, tnx for sharing with us.

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!😀

[@snowyfey]

Hi , your video show up to my youtube dasboard randomly , i click it , then your art and your personality is someone i adore , both your art and yourself is beyond beauty , and i see it

[@longstrideillustration]

That's very kind to say. Glad that YT is doing a good job showing my content to the right people, and that you enjoyed it. All the best.

[@randy-i1h]

Brilliant joy to see such beautiful artwork! Nice work.

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you very much!

[@ggn1]

Bro is PACKIN Today I have learned to reference samples of the different shade values!

[@longstrideillustration]

I'm glad you found that useful. I've saved myself a lot of grief by adding this values-map step. At first, I thought that I was "over planning" but in the end it saves time and the final artwork is a closer match to what I had envisioned in my head.

[@trenttaylor-n4d]

A beautiful demonstration, very helpful :)

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@fripsite]

So rare to see striving inkers these days, keep up the great work!

[@longstrideillustration]

Appreciate it! Thanks 😊

[@jamiewilson6850]

Thanks for sharing your process

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks for watching!

[@mythesetlegendes4041]

very good work. I use the same method but on a tablet with the layers and ink on procreate which imitates organic ink very well.

[@OrlandoMartinez2014]

its incredible, thank you

[@TheKane105]

Your pencils are fantastic as well! Thank you for the tips and videos, i always look forward to them.

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you so much! I worked on those pencils a little more than usual, so I'm happy to hear that it looked okay 😀

[@russellwilson6388]

Great tutorial Chloe, a really mindful approach into selecting and producing a masterstudy to further forward personal development in this hard to master discipline, congratulations....

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you, glad you think so.😊

[@adimancing7021]

6:58 mantap sekali kerajinan nya bosku hasil lukisan nya indah dan cantik sekali👍👍👍

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you think so. Thanks for watching. Wishing you all the best for 2024

[@jbkhan1135]

I'm always amazed at your skill with pen and ink, excellent work! I love the practice exercise (with the spheres), I'll definitely give that a try. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you enjoyed the video. That sphere exercise is quite fun, and you can keep going with shading progressively more complex shapes - it's a good way to make quick gains for hand control and lots of things

[@scrumtoe]

Glad I found your art and channel, great videos!

[@longstrideillustration]

Awesome, thank you!

[@ChantelleArts]

wonderful tips throughout, thank you for sharing 😊😊

[@longstrideillustration]

You are so welcome! Hope you're having a great 2024 so far. Cheers.

[@jacquilayton2557]

I’d say Sulamith Wülfing or Arthur Rackham for early fantasy art.

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks! Much appreciated.

[@alexandermortonstudios8528]

Thanks for these I've always wanted to learn this stuff! :)

[@pedrorodriguez7122]

Thank you, Chloe. Wonderful video.

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad if it was helpful!

[@richarddunn7017]

If you enjoy Frazetta, check out Gustave Dore. You may learn a lot about values from his work as well. Really GREAT video!!!! Thank you for sharing.

[@longstrideillustration]

Gustave Dore is on the list of the Masters I recommend for pen and ink studies. If you're interested in the full list, it's a free PDF for subscribers of my newsletter, link to my website in bio. Cheers

[@siem8160]

For this type of illustration, I mix Indian ink and gouache. This gives much better coverage and a uniform matte finish.

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks for sharing your tips with everyone!

[@tmerk4292]

Very interesting! Thank you for this break down. ❤

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you enjoyed it! and thanks for watching!

[@francisdrake3730]

Awesome tips! Thank you very much. Peace from germany 😊

[@ComicArtist984]

This was very helpful. Thanks 😊

[@spyonthewater]

This video, and the filming, and the editing, and your narration, and what you’re trying to convey could not be more articulated and well thought out. Your process is just so wonderful to watch. This video was very welcome on my lazy, lazy ass Sunday. I’m currently watching this at 1:08am pst on January 8th, 2024, out on my porch in Sac town, CA where the temperature is about 47 degrees. And obviously it isn’t snowing like it is over in NY right now. Anyway, my hands are still cold typing this out right now and thank you for making this. And giving us all something to relax to, learn from, and be in awe at what humanity is actually capable of achieving and doing for 13:30

[@longstrideillustration]

Thank you, I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comment and your kindness towards my efforts to sharing my learnings in a useful way. This month marks the one-year anniversary of my YT channel! I still film everything on my iPhone and edit in free video software - so I consider the production of my videos as lo-fi but aim to share quality tips. Thanks for the Sub, all the best, and stay warm.

[@YubelxDarkness83]

This might be a silly question but if I was to use an inking style similar to artists like Frazetta, Bernie Wrightson and Franklin booth, how would I decide which direction the hatching lines go on my figures? Do I follow the form? Do I follow the composition of the figure? Do I do my hatching towards the light source? For example, why did Frazetta choose to hatch horizontally rounding ape man 1’s back and more diagonal hatching on prisoner number 2? I’ve tried studying several of the 3 artists’ work but could never answer those questions

[@longstrideillustration]

Hi, wow that is such a great observation. Unfortunately, there's no hard-rule. Here's what I've observed from my studies of these masters: they make their decisions based on the source (or sources) of light, the hatching either follows the form or cross-contours the form, sometimes the hatching changes angle direction when there's a change of plane in the composition but sometimes it doesn't and instead there's a change in the values. Essentially, they make decisions about hatching treatment based on their artistic experience. That's what makes their work fascinating. The only thing we can do is practice and aim to make good artistic decisions.

[@YubelxDarkness83]

@@longstrideillustration Thanks for the reply, Chloe. That helps a lot. It’s reassuring to know that there aren’t any set rules when it comes to how we render our pieces in pen and ink. We can replicate our favorite masters but also add our own stylistic preferences to create our own unique style. Looking forward to your future videos, Chloe.

[@firewolfgamer3897]

thanks for the tip!!!

[@longstrideillustration]

No problem! Thanks for watching 😊

[@jcbritobr]

It's an amazing work. ❤

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@evilcritter]

I haven't had a chance to watch too many of your vids yet, so I am sure you answered this somewhere, but what sort of light table is that? I just have a standard one, but your ability to view an image directly and to draw on that surface would save me a few steps!

[@longstrideillustration]

If you don't mind navigating down to the video description part, the list of supplies used in each of the videos are listed there. Also here for everything I use in my studio: longstrideillustration.com/faq/

[@ketolcob]

Thank you for this informative video!

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad it was helpful!

[@futuristica1710]

Amazing videos! Subscribed! Can you do a master study on Alfredo Alcala?

[@longstrideillustration]

Yes! Alfredo Alcala is a good one!

[@vitormoraes8320]

great video as always, but stress-free is quite a stretch for me haha. I just cant get rid of anxiety and anger when practicing. I feel like I will only be able to enjoy art when Im finally good at it. back to the grind :(

[@longstrideillustration]

Haha, I know what you mean. The systematic approach is a simple way to shift my energy to the task, rather than focus on my skill-gaps. It makes it more fun to practice and easier to make progress. But, I know it's hard to separate the heart from the head when we're so passionate about the task :)

[@corruptedanimation7343]

Amazing video. Its good to study and recreate master works, you did really amazing. Inspired me to try it out :)

[@longstrideillustration]

That's great to hear. Many from my Instagram follower community have reached out to show me their Frazetta studies this past week, it's been so great and inspiring to see!

[@Jay-ql4gp]

Thank you!

[@longstrideillustration]

You're welcome! 😀

[@amybyron614]

Hi Chloe! Could you recommend a list of additional maters we should check out?

[@longstrideillustration]

Sure there's two ways that you can get a list. 1) You can subscribe to the monthly newsletter from my website (longstrideillustration.com/). All subscribers get a free PDF booklet with a list of masters with links to web resources. 2) You can follow my Pinterest Board that gets frequently updated: www.pinterest.ca/longstrideillustration/pen-ink-masters/

[@fredericodeazevedo]

Great video! Tks

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you liked it!

[@alejandrovazquez2208]

Good video! Thanks! ❤

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you liked it!

[@EmilijaLeopold]

Tehnika koja liječi.

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you think so, thank you.

[@DoomsayerDesigns]

Fantastic tips and video.

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@velviteenrabbitt]

Do you have an Etsy shop or website? I had no idea that this ink work would be so appealing to me Edited to add: no worries Chloe, I found your website 😊

[@longstrideillustration]

Hi! Thanks for looking into it. Yes, I built my own Wordpress website as I was planning to have a Blog and resources for pen and ink enthusiasts. Most of the artwork that I sell is either at in-person events (Comic-cons) and art galleries, so Etsy made less sense for my business when I started in 2022.

[@АлександрБутаков-г6к]

Hi there)! Sorry for my bad English) Your works is very good! Can you please get me an advice - do you know some children books illustrator s which works in same like your style of drawing techniques? Can you please name them?

[@longstrideillustration]

Hi, thanks for watching and for the question. I'm not as familiar with children's literature, but luckily @jacquilayton2557 recommends: Sulamith Wülfing or Arthur Rackham for early fantasy art

[@aaronbazil]

I can't wait till you discover JEAN "MOEBIUS" GIRAUD and his work, especially his linework! It'll be waiting patiently to see what you choose to do as your master studies for lineworks. I'm currently studying his "40 Days In the Desert" linework on my iPad. Enough though it's faster, and more convenient, I'm finding it lacks so much life and energy that a real pen and ink can afford, so I'm going to have to bust out the real thing, and dive in 😤

[@longstrideillustration]

True, the dip pens are more time consuming though it's indeed nice to have artwork to hang on the wall at the end of the day. I've done several Moebius pieces, mostly Arzach that you can view on my Intagram, as well a YT study process here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIKWiIWPdpZ4pNksi=ZgIlW-pxXtgQ2CJ0

[@skilfulhands1]

Great!!!!

[@squeen0]

The one tool you did not list was the brush. What kind was it, please?

[@longstrideillustration]

For inking with a brush, look for watercolour brushes. I mostly use the Kolinski Series 7 Sable brushes these days, they hold a fine point and can lay a lot of ink with control (great for big solids). You'll want a no2 and maybe a no1 to start. Here's my affiliate link to find it: W&N Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Brush: amzn.to/43zobLa

[@squeen0]

@@longstrideillustration Thank you!

[@skilfulhands1]

Great!!!!!!!!

[@spookman123456]

What was that light table you used?

[@longstrideillustration]

Huacan Diamond LED Light Tablet. If it's not in the description, you'll find links on my Website FAQ page, see Studio Equipment: longstrideillustration.com/faq/

[@Beastmaster_OG]

Well, if this is not magic, then what is? Amazing video!

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks so much!

[@gabrielruizaraujo2714]

Excellent! MAy the Lord Jesus always bless your work!

[@samankucher5117]

i love his guys and girls :)

[@longstrideillustration]

And his creatures as well, Frazetta is the king of anatomy 😀

[@artshurin]

11:38 nice kitty :3

[@ML-2024]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@longstrideillustration]

Thanks for watching and have an awesome day!

[@skilfulhands1]

👏👏👏😙😙👍

[@kevinwhitelaw2859]

I love the art 🎨 I'm a comic books artist I think you're beautiful like the art work is that you show are you single

[@primuzad7264]

Searching for a do-able Frazetta is such a miserable process.

[@richarddunn7017]

Um...Frazetta is not the godfather of fantasy art. That's Roy G. Krenkel. Frazetta's friend. Frazetta even called him that. Just an FYI.

[@longstrideillustration]

Hi, thanks for sharing your info. I did my homework before this video to learn more about Frank's career, and you'd be surprised how many reputable sources have quoted Frazetta as the "godfather". Regardless through, Roy G. Krenkel and Frazetta are great masters and worthwhile studying for pen and ink as well as for other mediums.

[@samankucher5117]

i am sure I've heard many artists that i followe call frazetta that ... i guss it is a matter of preference.

[@dannycruz5446]

Kind of an odd thing to try to correct. It's a subjective moniker anyway. And it is generally attributed to Frazetta regardless.

[@NoTengoIdeaGuey]

Never heard of him

[@dirkstuff5820]

Richard, the general population knows Frazetta’s greatness, most aren’t aware of Krenkel. You may be accurate to a degree, but I wouldn’t ignore the sheer volume of praise and influence that Frazetta deservedly receives.

[@jessquinn6106]

Frazetta is over-rated. I find his work grotesque and drab. Calling him a "master" is way too generous.

[@longstrideillustration]

I'm happy to ink Masters suggested by subscribers on this channel. Frazetta was highly requested, and I found the process to be a useful learning opportunity.

[@tier5scicuck612]

overrated

[@longstrideillustration]

I feature different genres and styles of master artists, primarily for learning/teaching how to grow more confident skills using pen and ink techniques. Sometimes the subject and genre of the Masters are not to everyone's tastes (including my own), however there's a lot to appreciate in art from someone who has more experience than the rest of us - such as Frank Frazetta.

[@tier5scicuck612]

@TheGameGallowsPlay yep, im the greatest!

[@JacksonTaylorandTheSinners]

Great effort. Definitely inspired me to do the same. 🫡

[@longstrideillustration]

Glad to hear it.