This instructable is your basic guideline to how to draw a tonal (shaded drawing) with pencils, draw a simple pen outline character and simplified cross hatching of shapes.
Before you start I would like to say that there is no definitive guide for drawing, it is something very personal down to the way you hold your pencils and pens.
Before you start I would like to say that there is no definitive guide for drawing, it is something very personal down to the way you hold your pencils and pens.
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Today class, we will be using pencils, pens and paper.
For now the drawing is kept simple and yes if I get good feedback I will add more instructables as follow ups that as the pictures below show will take you up as far as the level I am at. Unfortunately I will have to become a better artist when that point in time comes along. I would be able to give better examples and plan to add them when my art coursework finally comes back to me from moderation as I was under special circumstances this year due to my fathers passing away.
In the meantime these two images will have to suffice, the first being a caricature of Angus Young, or was it Bon I did too many caricature in one night and the second is from my coursework that shows a good example of shaped cross-hatching on the lighter's body (best ignore the rest I was firing out a page a minute for a deadline)
For now the drawing is kept simple and yes if I get good feedback I will add more instructables as follow ups that as the pictures below show will take you up as far as the level I am at. Unfortunately I will have to become a better artist when that point in time comes along. I would be able to give better examples and plan to add them when my art coursework finally comes back to me from moderation as I was under special circumstances this year due to my fathers passing away.
In the meantime these two images will have to suffice, the first being a caricature of Angus Young, or was it Bon I did too many caricature in one night and the second is from my coursework that shows a good example of shaped cross-hatching on the lighter's body (best ignore the rest I was firing out a page a minute for a deadline)
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"As far as artistic talent goes you have it or you don't"
I disagree with this, at least within the context of drawing what you see. It's true that some people understand how to draw more intuitively than others, but drawing is a skill that anyone can learn to do well, and isn't even a particularly difficult one. Knowing what to draw is the difficult part, but that isn't what you are are talking about here.
I think you are doing a great disservice when you gloss over things like how to hold a pencil and what basic movements to use to make the strokes you want. Yes there is a lot of variation in how exactly people hold and move their pencils, but there are also fundamentals that all good drawers use. No doubt you take for granted that you grasped these techniques when you were doodling instead of listening to the teacher in your younger years, but those who weren't doodlers (like myself) must learn these things first if they are to draw well. You could at least mention them (and focusing on those fundamentals would help you recover your drawing skills more quickly, but you broke your arm three years ago so I'm sure it doesn't matter now).
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