Drawing the Human Form on Copper

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Alaina, I’m speaking on behalf of Expert Village and I’m just here giving you a few tips on art. So when you’re doing the human form, once you learn the basics of the human form you can go back and start doing different ideas with this. This is actually a print that I had done, so this was actually a copper plate that I started with. And you start off by etching in your design and then first you want to do a drawing of it and then you want to go back and lay it on top and figure out where you’re going to etch it on here. So then you’re going to etch it out with tools that you use specifically for copper and then you’re going to use a few of these things like the darker parts of this. So when you actually want to make the darker parts, you’re actually going to have to go to professional studio any kind of art school will have it if you want to go take classes. It actually it’s a liquid that you put on the copper in the part that you want to and it eats away the copper, so when you print it this whole was laid down inked across and then laid down on to a piece of paper and put through a printing pres to print. So I made a couple prints off this plate that I had made. "