Drawing Basic Textures In Pencil – Diane Cardaci

Note that every scale has a highlight—this helps capture the fish’s shimmery nature. Butterfly Draw an outline with a sharp HB pencil. Lightly draw the thin veins, using long strokes. Add another layer of tone covering the lighter areas of the wing. Next use a 2B pencil to deepen the veins, gradually increasing the pressure and using long strokes that follow the shape of the wing. Switch back to the HB and use long strokes to deepen the light tones, allowing some strokes to be darker to create a slight variation.

Frog Use the smudging technique to lay down the base. Use darker tones to create raised bumps and lift out some graphite to add highlights to the surface. Begin with a carefully detailed outline drawn with a sharp HB pencil. When drawing the head, use short strokes to create the softer edges of the feathers. Indicate the black markings of the bird with some quick shading. Arrow left: With a sharp 2H pencil, darken the lines around the feathers to define them, and add some dark markings using short strokes.

As you draw, make sure that all of your strokes follow the direction of the feathers. Arrow right: Shade under the wings, then darken the eye, remembering to leave the highlight white. Put some tone in the beak but leave it lighter on the upper part to show the reflection of light. Working back and forth between an HB and a 2B pencil, start developing values, concentrating on the bird’s body and head. Using short, uneven pencil strokes, start putting some tone on the back, the belly, and the back of the head.

Apply some darker tone to the crown of the head to indicate the blue color. Arrow right: Darken the beak, but keep some highlights to emphasize its smooth texture.

A pencil’s point can unleash a world of creative satisfaction. And although many artists may view it as a simple sketching tool, it can also be used to express the captivating textures of both the natural and manufactured worlds. A pencil can capture the fragile beauty of a butterfly’s wing or the imposing form of a steel skyscraper. From the delicate lines created by a sharpened, hard lead point to the velvety, deep values of a soft graphite, the range of textural possibilities is infinite! —Diane Cardaci OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Tools & Materials Graphite Techniques Understanding Value Texture, Light & Form Botanicals Still Life Wildlife Landscape Cityscape Portrait Pets OceanofPDF.com TOOLS & MATERIALS Graphite pencil artwork requires few supplies, and fortunately they are fairly inexpensive.

Choose professional pencils and paper, rather than student-grade materials; they will last longer and ensure a higher-quality presentation. Pencils Pencils are labeled based on their lead texture. Hard leads (H) are light in value and great for fine, detailed work, but they are more difficult to erase. Soft leads (B) are darker and wonderful for blending and shading, but they smudge easily.

Medium leads, such as HB and F, are somewhere in the middle. Select a range of pencils between HB and 6B for variety. You can purchase wood- encased pencils or mechanical pencils with lead refills. Wooden Pencil The most common type of pencil is wood-encased graphite. These thin rods—most often round or hexagonal when cut crosswise—are inexpensive, easy to control and sharpen, and readily available to artists. Flat Carpenter’s Pencil Some artists prefer using a flat carpenter’s pencil, which has a rectangular body and lead.

The thick lead allows you to easily customize its shape to create both thick and thin lines. Carpenter’s Pencil Mechanical Pencil Mechanical pencils are plastic or metal barrels that hold individual leads. Some artists prefer the consistent feel of mechanical pencils to that of wooden pencils; the weight and length do not change over time, unlike wooden pencils that wear down with use.

Mechanical Pencil Woodless Graphite Pencil These tools are shaped liked wooden pencils but are made up entirely of graphite lead. The large cone of graphite allows artists to use either the broad side for shading large areas or the tip for finer strokes and details.

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