Questions tagged [pencil-shading]
For questions relating to materials and techniques used to create gradated tones with pencils to simulate volume or the working of light (e.g. smudging, hatching, or stippling).
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Are there any downsides to using black water-soluble pencils as regular pencils?
I have a set of water soluble pencils (specifically Cretacolor Artino Graphite Set 10). I have no interest in using them with water for now - are there any downsides to using them as regular pencils? ...
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Can I draw dog fur with pencil and then go over it with colored pencils?
I'm a amateur child artist trying to draw this. At the end of the video, the artist uses his pencil to make fur-like textures. However, I want to do this with color. After doing the whole tutorial, ...
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How to retroactively remove the shiny effect of graphite pencils? [duplicate]
I made a sketch using graphite and charcoal pencils in low-light. When I looked at the sketch under normal lighting, it was very shiny.
How can I retroactively make a graphite sketch less shiny?
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How to draw human body in chest/collarbone area?
As I have found myself learning more about the human body anatomy, and less focused on the human anatomy of the face, I am struggling with the latter.
I am an expressionist. I do want accuracy, and ...
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Planes of the head (Loomis Method)
I have been reading Loomis' book "Drawing the head and hands" and practising Loomis' method of head construction. But while reading the book, I discovered that to put the features correctly ...
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What artistic elements to add to a car to diminish a difference in color shade?
I've got a used car that had a lot of oxidation on it so I sand it, applied a primer and a cheap paint on it. Although the color code on the spray can matched the original code on the car, it seems ...
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What are the (dis)advantages of both sides of chart paper for drawing or painting?
I have noticed how two surfaces of chart paper are different from each other: one is rough while the other is smooth.
I am getting different opinions about choosing which side is more suitable for ...
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The differences between masculine and feminine features to improve my portraits
Earlier this summer, I drew a portrait of a girl that I liked. It was a good drawing, but I cheated. I basically traced the important parts and carefully overlayed the photo for shading. I never ...
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Inexpensive method for highlighting a sketch
I am from India and thinking of starting sketching.
As a beginner I am going to buy 2H, 2B and 4B (I hope that is enough).
What I need to know is some inexpensive method/white pencil for ...
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Is it possible to combine charcoal and graphite in one image?
I'm drawing an image with quite a large range of tones and I plan to draw the darker tones in charcoal. However, I used a graphite pencil for the preparatory drawing. Is it still possible to draw with ...
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What Faber-Castell Polychromos color codes do I need to paint this?
I started to draw and paint this famous historical picture of Raising a flag over the Reichstag Berlin 1945, and I am stuck with the red flag and blue haze in the far background:
I am using ...
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Shading dark scenes
I frequently find myself sketching scenes that have dark lighting, but I'm never quite sure how to go about shading the subjects of the drawing when it's supposed to look dark, especially things like ...
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How to find the contours of a 3D object?
In Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil, the author says that we should shade according to the contours of an object. As an example he has shown a cone shaped flat bottomed flower pot, which was quite ...
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How to start a pencil portrait without using an outline of features?
I enjoy drawing head portraits in pencil, but I've found that sketching an outline of the prominent features often lead me astray. For example, due to shadows my eye is sometimes approximating the ...
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How does shading & blending with carbon pencils differ from graphite pencils?
From what I've read, carbon pencils give a more matte-like texture than graphite, and are a drier media - similar to charcoal. Graphite can become reflective when photographed and scanned so I'm ...
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How do I get a blur (blended) effect in pencil drawings?
When drawing pictures with a pencil, I often want to create a more or less solid darker colour in some region. It's easy to shade an area so that it appears a solid dark colour from a distance, e.g. ...
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How can I do the hatching shading technique properly?
I really like the hatching technique especially with pens, or 'calligraphy pens' but I cant seem to get the style correct, I try to hatch but it ends up not looking properly done.
Are there any ...
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Do I need to hold the pencil in different ways for different kinds of shading methods?
There are different types of shading techniques like criss cross, straight lines, circular shading, blending, scribbling, and dot shading (drawing dots close to each other).
I draw and shade ...
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On what factors does choosing pencil shading technique depend?
There are different types of shading techniques like criss cross, straight lines, circular shading, blending, scribbling, and dot shading (drawing dots close to each other).
Of course there are not ...
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