Shading Pencil Drawing Techniques
Finding new pencil shading techniques.
Shading pencil drawing techniques. Each technique produces a different texture and feel to the drawing. Preliminary outlines some highlights first layer of shading eye whites. Learn seven different techniques for drawing with graphite pencils.
In this art tutorial video i ll show beginners to drawing how to draw by learning basic techniques in a step by step approach. Hatching lines drawn in the same. It is a very useful skill to develop for both pencil and color pencil drawings.
Pencil shading is all about controlling the movement of your hands and deciding whether you ll be using the point or the side of your pencil because everything you do has a different outcome. Graduated tone exercise 1. Still all those artists use some of the same techniques especially when it comes to shading.
Bobby chiu there are lots of different pencil drawing techniques relating to shading. The most common application techniques include. Shading with unified lines versus shading in patches produces a different feel image.
Techniques used for applying shading to an object are quite varied. When shading with a variety of pencil grades each pencil should only cover a small range of values. With these pencil shading techniques you can explore all kinds of artistic expressions.
Now that you ve understood the grades of the graphite pencil and the best pencil to use for each shading degree it s time to tackle the best and easiest shading techniques for you to play with. The drawing medium used may determine the shading technique that is applied in the drawing. Pencil shading techniques from carl purcell from drawing with your artist s brain the method you choose to create values using a graphite pencil is your choice.
4 pencil shading techniques to try 1. The pencil shading exercise explored on this page is called graduated tone. We look at blending circling hatching cross hatching stippling rendering and more in this lesson.
Shading techniques for drawing. Mix up shading techniques. It s amazing how a simple drawing tool such as a pencil can be used by different artists and yield such different results.
In part 1 i explain how to hold the pencil to create different. Another form of shading that resembles crosshatching contour is a shading type that follows the contour of a line or the lines of the shape of your particular image. Pencil shading techniques.
Chiu uses two main approaches. The first is with all the lines going in the same direction. For the drawing below i used hb 4b and 6b.
Some prefer crosshatching some prefer to blend and some myself included prefer to create the value with strokes that also define the shape.
