The document provides information on different drawing techniques including:
1. It describes different ways to hold a pencil including the tripod grip, extended tripod grip, overhand grip, and underhand pencil grip.
2. It explains different pencil strokes such as the "slinky stroke", crosshatching, tapering strokes, and squiggle strokes that can be used to shade drawings.
3. Steps are provided for drawing hands, heads, and animals by simplifying their shapes and using basic geometric forms like circles, ovals, boxes and cylinders. Details should then be added to the foundation of shapes.
The document provides information on different drawing techniques including:
1. It describes different ways to hold a pencil including the tripod grip, extended tripod grip, overhand grip, and underhand pencil grip.
2. It explains different pencil strokes such as the "slinky stroke", crosshatching, tapering strokes, and squiggle strokes that can be used to shade drawings.
3. Steps are provided for drawing hands, heads, and animals by simplifying their shapes and using basic geometric forms like circles, ovals, boxes and cylinders. Details should then be added to the foundation of shapes.
The document provides information on different drawing techniques including:
1. It describes different ways to hold a pencil including the tripod grip, extended tripod grip, overhand grip, and underhand pencil grip.
2. It explains different pencil strokes such as the "slinky stroke", crosshatching, tapering strokes, and squiggle strokes that can be used to shade drawings.
3. Steps are provided for drawing hands, heads, and animals by simplifying their shapes and using basic geometric forms like circles, ovals, boxes and cylinders. Details should then be added to the foundation of shapes.
1. outline picture: a picture of something made with a pencil, pen, or crayon,
usually consisting of lines, often with shading, but generally without color
2. making pictures: the art, activity, or practice of making pictures using a pencil, crayon, or pen. 3. Delineation of form upon a surface, usually a plane, by means of lines, shapes and tints or shading
SKETCHING 1. GRAPHIC ARTS making sketches: the activity or pastime of drawing sketches
2. picture done quickly and roughly: a drawing or painting that is done quickly without concern for detail.
1. Basic Tripod Grip
2. Extended Tripod Grip
3. Overhand Grip
4. Underhand Pencil Grip When you hold a pencil using the tripod grip, you use your fingers and thumb to control the pencil, and for fine work, the hand can rest on the page. Use a spare sheet of paper to keep your drawing free from smudges and skin oils. If more movement is required, the wrist or elbow can be rested against the edge of the drawing surface, used as a pivot.
Another useful way to hold a pencil is in the extended tripod grip. This pencil grip uses the same hold as the basic tripod grip, with a triangle formed by the thumb, forefinger and middle finger, but further up the pencil. Because it is similar to the basic grip, this is a comfortable way to hold a pencil for drawing, while allowing more freedom.
When you ask how to hold a pencil, the overhand grip is the one most often recommended for sketching, as it makes it easy to use the side of the pencil. To make the overhand grip, the pencil is braced lightly against the fingers with the flat of the thumb. The actual position will vary according the proportions of your hand: the main thing is to have a secure but relaxed grip on the pencil.
The underhand pencil grip is a very loose and relaxed way of holding a pencil. This example is basically a tipped-over tripod grip, but you can also move the thumb higher or allow the pencil to sit in the 'V' of the thumb and palm, with the index and middle finger lightly controlling the tip. Holding a pencil with the underhand grip is useful for casual, broad sketching, such as with charcoal pencil.
1. Basic Skeleton and add detail, visualizing the basic shapes that under a complex surface, like a sculptor working in clay and adding pieces on.
2. Imaginary Box, working from the outside in, imagining basic shapes that the form fits within, like a sculptor starting with a block of marble and chipping bits away. - Begin with the largest section of a complex form.
- Don't worry about mistakes, they are part of learning.
- Don't use a ruler - train your hand.
- You don't have to 'finish' the sketches.
- Practice!
The "slinky" stroke is a very simple illustration, showing the fundamental way of rendering in pencil. It is called "slinky" because it goes back and forth, back and forth, just like that childhood toy, the Slinky.
Here's an illustration showing the "crosshatching" of a pencil stroke. It's very simple principleyou just do the "slinky" thing in several different directions, one over the other. Each different direction adds more tone to the shading, and gets it progressively darker, and darker. Some more examples of pencil strokes. The example on the left shows how a dark tone looks. One bears down a little harder with their pencil, and gets the darkest tone they can while using the "slinky" stroke. They do this going several different directions. A very dark (even black) tone.
Here are a few more pencil techniques. The illustration on the left shows a "slinky" stroke that tapers down to a tip. This can be useful in many shading areas. The illustration on the right shows a "squiggle" stroke. This is sometimes good for delicate shading in small areas, or drawing fabric, or a few other "specialized" textures. You can see how "slinky" lines, and various other crosshatch lines, being used in going in different directions. Learning to draw hands is easier than it seems, as though they are complex forms, they become less daunting by simplifying the shapes. The formulaic approach to drawing hands using circles and ovals is helpful to start with, but the shapes needed will change according to the position of the hand, so it is much better to train your eye to see what is required. It can help to see each part of the finger as a short cylinder, depicted with an oval overlapping the next to form the joint, but from there the subtle variations of shape must be built up. 1. Rough in the overall form. 2. Form the fingers.
STEPS: 3. Refine the drawing.
4. Describe the form with tone.
To construct a well-proportioned head, follow these simple steps. 1. Begin with a ball. 2. Drop a line from mid-forehead to the chin. 'Slice off' a circle at the side of the head, and from the front of this circle, curve a line down to the chin. Complete the plane of the face with a line on the other side. Now add the jaw line. 3. Construct the nose, indicate mouth and chin position and elongate skull slightly. (The distance from chin to crown is almost the same as from forehead to the back of the skull). Sketching animals is easy when you think in terms of shapes rather than the animals themselves. By studying shapes, you can learn to sketch the body using peanut shapes, ellipses, boxes, cones, circles, squares and rectangles. Using these shapes, you will form animals with ease and be able to build detail onto the foundation shape to draw a realistic animal.
Everything around us has a shape or form. Whether it is linear or not, the form tells our eyes what we are seeing. So if you use forms to build upon, you can shape the animals you want to draw For instance, a goose is comprised of an oval body, a cone- like cylindrical neck, cone shapes for legs and a cone for a beak. The tail is an elongated triangle.
Different types of shapes form most animals before you begin to add details. Try drawing some shapes as practice before associating them with any specific animal. The peanut shape can be used for a variety of animal heads. Moose, giraffes, hippos, horses and deer heads use a peanut shape. Cows are shaped with peanut bodies, an oval face and cylindrical cup nose. The legs are long cylinders with disc-shaped cups for feet. A lion head starts with a circle and a short cylinder for the nose, and rounded domes for ears.
The benefit of using shapes to draw with is the ease in which you will be able to complete the rendering. Once the shapes are in place, it is easy to change and add to or delete from the original form. It also makes quick sketching easier. Shapes will also give you a sense of motion that is part of the perspective process.
Bill Tilton is a former Disney Studio artist and author who uses shapes to form the animals he sketches. His techniques are fascinating, and you can learn much by using the techniques mentioned earlier that I have learned from Bill.
By adding shading and leaving the white of the paper as a highlight, the animal takes on a complete identification. Use markers or charcoal pencil to place color around the outside of the animal, which will then bring it forward. Rub your fingertips across the charcoal and push it away from the animal until it fades. This creates a nice shadow effect.