![]() As artists and designers, we often draw a few quick scamps. It’s where they’ve got animals engaging with the actual pen in the drawing. I always tell my students “Great art takes planning”. So what I kind of thought of doing, and this is not a very original idea, because I’ve seen it a lot on Pinterest. Medium Exploration Step 1 – Plan your drawing Medium exploration is when you play around with a specific medium such as watercolour, oil paints, pen or pencils, exploring various mark-making techniques. I would encourage you to do some medium exploration before you start. Stippling examplesĪnd then there’s the basic gradient going from dark to light. Stippling, which consists out of a lot of tiny little dots grouped together. ![]() Basket Weave examplesĬontour hatching which follows the form of the object. Cross-Hatching techniquesīasketweave, which is a staggering of short lines grouped together. Some of the most common ones are parallel hatching, which are fine lines that are parallel to each other, Parallel Hatching TechniquesĬross-hatching, that’s when we criss-cross lines over each other at various degrees and angles. There are various techniques that you can use when working with a ballpoint pen. You are also drawing flat and not on a table easel, as drawing on an easel will let your pen run dry. You don’t want that grain in your drawing. This prevents that you pick up any texture from the table and if you don’t have a drawing board you can just use newspaper that you folded, just so you don’t pick up the texture of the table, especially if you’re working on a wooden table. This just a piece of masonite you can cut to size. If you have one, place a drawing board underneath. ![]() It’s just cheap, plain printing paper, smooth as a baby’s bottom. The most important thing, it has no grain, it’s got no bumpy surface, it’s got no funky texture. I recommend that you use just plain card stock paper. Often when I’ve used black, people tend to think it’s fine liner, or I cheated somehow or printed it or whatever, but with blue they just don’t question it and they just go “Wow it’s ballpoint pen” The drawing station Today I’m going to use blue so people immediately recognize that it’s ballpoint pen that I’ve used. You get them in black and blue and there are various other colours. Since I’ve been a girl at school I used to doodle all the time in my school books and I always used to draw with these. ![]()
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