2006-12-17 12:27:39 · 2 answers · asked by redhead 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
1. hatch marks, thin parallel, closely-space lines.
2. Crosshatching, the hatch marks are gone over with other hatch marks laid down in a different direction.
3. Shading with the side of the pencil.
4. Rubbing with your finger to smooth the pencil outward.
5. blending with a blending tool, often called a tortillion: http://www.danielsmith.com/catalog/products/?catalog=MJJ06&T1=027110004.
6. Use dots, but this works better in ink.
2006-12-17 12:44:03 · answer #1 · answered by Bill 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There are many different methods of shading a few are, hatching (basically a bunch of lines), cross hatching (like hatching just the lines cross), stippling (tiny dots), and just going in with the pencil and making your own gradients to name a few, how long it takes will just have to come with practice. hatching, crosshatching and stippling are all good but pretty slow ways of shading but look really awesome when done right. A good thing to remember with any type of shading is that your shading has to follow the form, if you're shading an arm and shade in only one direction it'll just look flat and boring. In my experience, a lot of high schools teach smudging, using many different types of pencils, and working with grids which is ok to start out but its best not to keep with it. Each pencil softness has a different oil content which can ruin a drawing really fast. Keeping with a #2 or HB pencil will work fine and is quite a bit less expensive just adjust your pressure accordingly. A good way to shade with one pencil is to make very light shadows at first and go over multiple times getting darker and darker When drawing in general its always a good idea to draw anything and everything you see, but that doesn't mean to only draw from life, drawing from your imagination will not only stimulate creativity but it will also give you a reference for how you are improving and what you need work on. Just remember that anything and everything is made from basic shapes like boxes and such and its always a good idea to break things down into those basic elements while you're drawing them.
2016-03-13 08:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1)Blending dark and lighter colours
2)Just a darker colour streaked down.
3)change a little, instead of darker colours, make marks and streaks to show light
4)thin streak for shading
5)thick streaks for shading
2006-12-17 13:07:28 · answer #3 · answered by IceღFire Shawn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋