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Secret to drawing, sketching, shading and blending
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Secret to drawing, sketching, shading and blending

Understand the importance of gradation in drawing out realistic sketches of anything and everything around you
Created bySurbhi Bahl
Last updated 1/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Confidence in starting as a beginner, understanding lines, how to hold a pencil, types of pencil and strokes, freehand drawing
  • Drawing lines, shapes, everyday objects, nature, landscape, portraits, perspectives and an introduction to colour
  • How to study and draw light, observe the natural flow of light from dark towards light and bring it in blending
  • Bringing in colour - moving towards different mediums and working further with light, we will get a great overview with soft pastels and water colour pencils
  • Create your own final works on paper - ready to be framed and displayed
  • In a week with daily half hour practice of drawing - you'll be able to observe and draw objects around you
  • Quick sketching practices

Course content

3 sections • 26 lectures • 4h 35m total length

  • Introduction to pencils11:27

    An overview of the pencils that we'll be using in the course, mostly the darker black ones from HB to 10B.

  • Introduction to lines5:48

    Let's start with the very basic. Pick up your 2B/HB pencil in hand, bring the paper and follow the instructions. Line drawing techniques are a great way to open your hand and understand the flow of the pencil. See where it takes you.


  • Blending - in a horizontal box5:33

    Blending is an important part of shading, so that there is a gradual flow of dark to lighter tones and vice versa. We're using the same pencil throughout.

  • Blending - in a vertical box6:23

    Let's bring the blending further with laters in a narrow standing box.

  • Types of strokes: Hatching and cross hatching5:13

    We will be studying 7 main types of strokes in type of object i.e. a round ball. Some of the strokes we already know and it may have come naturally to us before as well. Here we are looking at

    1. Hatching

    2. and Cross Hatching


  • Types of strokes: scribbling, circling7:25

    The next two are

    3. Scribbling

    4. Circling

  • Strokes: Stippling, contour and blending12:07

    and then comes

    4. Stippling - see if you want to use a darker pencil for this, or perhaps a black ball point pen instead (optional)

    5. Contour lines

    6. and the last a mixture of all -called good old fashioned - blending

  • Applying the shadow with different strokes10:53

    A quick recap for all of them by giving a shadow to each of them - with the same flow of pencil strokes

  • Cone drawing: light on the left6:14

    Now that we have an idea of the strokes and styles, let's work further with blending them out in shapes, draw a cone with imaginary light coming on the left.

  • Cone: light on the right6:51

    Further practice, imaginary light on the right side of the cone

  • One point perspective and shading10:23

    Have you ever stood in the middle of the road and noticed how the trees and lamp posts are getting smaller as they’re getting further away? One point perspective becomes very useful in understanding how objects such as boxes gets narrower when away from us. Understand vanishing point - which is only one here - connecting the corners.

  • Two point perspective6:22

    Two point perspective - we have 2 vanishing points and study how the box turns when its corner is towards us. Followed by a simple shading cross hatch technique with the darker pencil.

  • Coffee cup with blending practice10:29

    Move to everyday object, making a coffee cup from imagination and adding your own light. Try it out with your cup - whether its got the curve or just straight on the edges

  • Drawing an apple9:58

    Sometimes a simple apple drawing can be a bit tricky in  bringing the shape and the curves, not to mention shading it out. Go along with the lecture and feel free to use the eraser in the middle and for fine-tuning it out.

  • Drawing a face12:50

    Drawing an imaginary face, it doesn't have to be the same as this one but as long as you follow the steps and where the starting feature is and then building it across with the remaining features and then the shape of the face followed by the hair. Best to get the eyes, nose lips placed first before doing the outlines

  • Drawing a pear7:17

    Let's draw an imaginary pear and understand where the light is coming from.

  • Pear - 2nd layer and darker tones10:17
  • Small pot of plant14:04

Requirements

  • No drawing experience needed, you will learn everything you need to know from drawing a line towards the nature landscape
  • If you last drew something in kindergarten - that's just fine! Starting from the basic and building it up slowly
  • Enthusiasm and willingness to take out time and practice and a keen eye to observe
  • Art materials: Pencils - namely 2B or else HB is fine. The rest of the darker pencils of 4B, 6B, 8B and 10b can follow along during the course, but shouldn't stop you from enrolling right away:)
  • Sketchbook or any found paper, you can even use the reverse side of used computer sheets.
  • If you have watercoloured pencil or soft pastel - that would be great in one section to understand how blending works with colours after deeply understanding blending with pencils
  • Dry thin brush, water container for the section on water colour pencils
  • Ruler for the section on perspective
  • Eraser and dry brush for cleaning

Description

We all have been sketching or scribbling since we were little, and probably know how to pick up the pencil. But do you know how to hold it? What makes some strokes dark, some light? Is it only with special kind of pencils?

Starting from the very basic of making lines, bringing out different shapes and then towards realistic objects followed by nature, let's build it up little by little. 

We will be understanding how light plays an important role in adding to the realistic shapes, tones and on how to hold the pencil, what type of pencil and its pressure techniques.

If you already have a good idea on drawing but not getting the shading and gradation with the pencil, then this course will help you along your artistic practice.

We will start with making lines and understanding how pencils can vary but sometimes one pencil if gripped right, can do all the magic. We'll work with shapes and alongside jump right at it by shading them by placing imaginary light from different angles. There are many directions in which the pencil moves during the shading process and that's what we'll go deeper into. This will be followed by an overview on perspective drawing, everyday objects, portrait drawing and then towards nature and landscape followed by an introduction to blending in colours.

By understanding pencil shading and lighter and darker tones, there is an extra section with an introduction to colours - namely water colour pencils and soft pastels.

I will be available throughout the course and will be responding to any queries that go along the way. It's an interactive course where you can work alongside and keep pausing and moving along with the pencil towards many striking strokes and adding depth and richness to your drawings. 

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone new to the world of drawing and wants to bring out realistic and beautiful artworks
  • Complete beginners who have never drawn before or didn't get the opportunity to
  • Student where drawing is a required tool such as interior designer, architects, fashion designers, storyboard artistst
  • Even if you aren't new to drawing but want to understand shading and blending deeper, this course will sail you through

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