Video: Design Media: Graphite & Detergent

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In design, detergent is used to repel graphite to create a scattered pattern on the page. Play with graphite and detergent with tips from an artist in this free design video.

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So it's a if you have a bigger area of graphite. I'm going to get this a little wet on the side again so I try a bigger area of graphite. Let's see, this is really running and then get this. You see how that makes it the detergent just that little bit of detergent just makes this want to like run away and you can kind of like sort of play with it and get it to run into shapes. I'm going to make this big white area and then it's going to contrast with that gray area there. It's almost like having an eraser of sorts. So you can keep playing around with this. That got too heavy there so I'm going to put a little bit of that there. Just to have a dark space and then you'll see this got too dry here. So that's kind of what you do with this. You let it dry after about an hour or so and again you have to stabilize it with some workable fixative but this is a way to start creating a textured surface and you know you keep playing around with it and you can probably come up with a great start for a picture.

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Design Media: Graphite & Detergent

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