Video: Design Media: Playing With Graphite

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Playing with graphite in design reveals interesting effects and patterns achieved by the medium. Play with graphite with tips from an artist in this free design video.

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We have a lot of little items around the house that actually respond to each other by like repelling and there's several sort of quick and easy ways to get this to work on your surface and start creating an interesting surface that you might want to play around with. We're going to try one again with powered graphite. You need a some sort of flat pan or for water because you want to immerse your illustration board in the water of course I got my and make sure that it's entirely wet and then you let it drip until it finishes dripping. Until the drips stop running off of it and you put it on some newspaper. You put on a flick of the graphite and then you take a pencil or a toothpick or something I've got just some dishwasher dish detergent here. You blow on this first and then I'm going to drop some of this in the middle and you can see that it is making I'll drop it again. I've got my dish detergent I am putting it in the middle here and it's creating this. It has to be just wet but it creates this, it makes the granules of graphite just come kind of want to run away.

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Design Media: Playing With Graphite

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