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Mexican Artist Uses Unique Technique To Make His Drawings Glow, And The Result Is Mesmerizing
Mexican artist Enrique Bernal has found a subtle yet majestic way to illuminate his beautiful drawings with life. After the talented artist is done working on his works of art with pencils and pens, Enrique adds a few extra post-production effects, taking his drawings to a whole new level.
The artist uses an app called Medibang Paint. One of its features is a digital “glow” that imitates a fluorescent light source, but it would be nothing without Bernal's clever use of it. Both the angles of the glow and the colors he chooses to make his subjects really pop and create an off-the-paper candescence.
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When Art Decides To Literally Glow Up
Whether Bernal is simply contouring their face and body or adding mysterious elements to the entire composition -- like butterfliers -- he always seems to find the right motifs to enhance his pencil drawings of humans and animals.
After further inspection, one can notice that Enrique's creative ideas are reminiscent of the works by Bulgarian illustrator Angel Ganev. He also makes use of a similar technique of lighting that makes the pencil drawings appear as though they are glowing.
Ganev's cool drawings radiate with a unique mood as well, wherein the glow becomes a feeling of a warm autumn evening with a cup of tea in one pencil sketch and a cool metallic touch of magic in another.
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Cristian Hain 5 years ago
this one should be higher! Love the way it makes it seem like the pen is the light source
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Can A Sketch Be Hypnotizing? Yes.
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Looks Like Photoshop, But It’s Real
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Whoever Said Drawing Was Boring Needs To See This
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
Love his work with the highlighting tool and the subtly placed objects in the portraits to give them more depth. She appears from her bandaid on her chest, to have a broken heart, and the emblem on her forehead, idk for sure, makes me feel like she's still a queen.
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This Is What Happens When Talent Meets Glow
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
She is very beautiful. I think I would've liked a bit more lights on her, maybe a different color. Of course his drawing skills are perfection. A peach tone like he used earlier would have given her face a very pretty softness to go with her pouty full lip.
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The Kind Of Art That Belongs In A Sci-Fi Movie
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Your Eyes Deserve To See This
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
I love the color he chose to light her with, against all of her very dark hair.
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Carrot dude 5 years ago
Wait, is the pen drawn too? Or is there real fluorescent light? Iḿ confused. Beautiful drawing, though. Love the tattoo
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Don’t Blink – This Art Might Disappear
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You Thought You Knew Glow Art? Think Again
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Let There Be Light… And Incredible Talent
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This Art Radiates Pure Skill
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Light, Color, Action!
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Drawn To Shine, Destined To Dazzle
Alexandra Ghobrial 5 years ago
Is he trying to make it look like the light is coming from the pen??? Cool!!!!!
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This Artist Said “Let There Be Glow” — And Nailed It
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You’ve Never Seen Sketching Like This Before
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What do you think ?
How Terribly Unfortunate 5 years ago
These are so beautiful! I couldn't DREAM of making ONE piece of art nearly as good as they all are.
Dio 5 years ago
The work is pretty and the lighting digital effect does lend itself to these drawings, but it also seems to hide a lot of mistakes... The images look traced as I can see a lot of sloppy drawing in the hands and body proportions especially. The sketchy 'shadows' can hide these things too.. Either way, it's a nice start to an artist who obviously has a lot of talent and lots of room to develop and grow! :)
Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)
Wow! They look magical! I love the style; he would make a great comic book artist
Madison Feehan 5 years ago
WOW! Just wow! I wish you would post a video tutorial so I could see how you do this! BEAUTIFUL!!! <3
UniversalMel 5 years ago (edited)
These are pretty cool, but the way that the skin is so smooth and detailed and then everything else is so sketchy makes them look unfinished. I know art is art and you can do it however you want, but it’s somewhat off-putting. Still love it and your talented as heck tho
Jumana Shubbar 4 years ago
To be honest, I agree with Dio. In every pic, it looked like it was traced, but either way, it's all good and amazing! :)
Elyse Francis 5 years ago
it would be quite cool if they were able to make that same effect without the digital effect, thou still very cool
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Oh. I thought he made those highlights using colored pencils, which would have been amazing. Doing it in post isn't.
How Terribly Unfortunate 5 years ago
These are so beautiful! I couldn't DREAM of making ONE piece of art nearly as good as they all are.
Dio 5 years ago
The work is pretty and the lighting digital effect does lend itself to these drawings, but it also seems to hide a lot of mistakes... The images look traced as I can see a lot of sloppy drawing in the hands and body proportions especially. The sketchy 'shadows' can hide these things too.. Either way, it's a nice start to an artist who obviously has a lot of talent and lots of room to develop and grow! :)
Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)
Wow! They look magical! I love the style; he would make a great comic book artist
Madison Feehan 5 years ago
WOW! Just wow! I wish you would post a video tutorial so I could see how you do this! BEAUTIFUL!!! <3
UniversalMel 5 years ago (edited)
These are pretty cool, but the way that the skin is so smooth and detailed and then everything else is so sketchy makes them look unfinished. I know art is art and you can do it however you want, but it’s somewhat off-putting. Still love it and your talented as heck tho
Jumana Shubbar 4 years ago
To be honest, I agree with Dio. In every pic, it looked like it was traced, but either way, it's all good and amazing! :)
Elyse Francis 5 years ago
it would be quite cool if they were able to make that same effect without the digital effect, thou still very cool
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Oh. I thought he made those highlights using colored pencils, which would have been amazing. Doing it in post isn't.
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