Shading:
The most difficulty is to shade or create forms, and this is the place where people afraid to enter or if they enter by chance… make bad drawing and say ‘’painting is not my cup of tea’’. But I don’t think so… Hi guys! Do you know dancing? No, no you don’t need to dance on paper, you need to dothat you just dance with your pencil!!! This way you can get a quality Shading.
To create all the values between white and black, use ‘6B’ pencil for first two
boxes ; 4B for second two boxes; 2B, HB, 2H, 4H, 6H to create lighter shade. Try all the pencils and yo
u will find different grades appear with different values that cre
ate the depth you want.
The values were made by Cross-hatching and varying the pressure on the paper. You know, only a 2B pencil created the values.
This scale was drawn with a 4B pencil using only vertical strokes. You can see that as the tones become lighter, you need to put less pressure on the paper. Notice how the texture of the paper becomes apparent with the lighter tones. Use 6B, 8B, 10B like this way.
CREATING CUBE: I think, one of the most difficult problems of drawing is creating a three-dimensional form on a flat piece paper. The best demonstration of producing three-dimensions is with a drawing of a cube that has height, width, and depth. Imagine a single light is directed on the cube, you will be able to see the height, width, and depth. Use the way I told you to create the value. See, it is difficult to achieve a strong light effect with 2H or 2B pencil. Use higher grade to get this effect easily.
[See, vencent van gogh painting post. (Painting no: JH-539, JH-531, JH-529, JH-533) You will find simple object painted with different effect of shading, Use of light etc. I also refer to see (Painting no: JH-935, JH-936, JH-929) to know what depth he used in his painting.
