I Need Help On Shading

kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
in Artwork Forum
<div class="IPBDescription">artists come and help me :)</div> Hey, this really has nothing to do with ns and I thought about posting this on the off-topic, but seeing it was related to artwork, I thought I reallly should be posting it in here.

I am having a hard time shading certain figures like my hands with pencils, 2b, 2h, h and etc..With pens there is no problem, because pens don't have different shades or hardness factors, but with pencils I find that they are more fine and therefore it is easier to make problems.

So any methods on effective crosshatching? Or shading techniques?

Links or anything would be nice

-peace
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  • BOOBOO Join Date: 2003-07-28 Member: 18504Members
    edited July 2003
    shadeing in regular sketching?
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    yes
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  • BOOBOO Join Date: 2003-07-28 Member: 18504Members
    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> i can help you with that. there are special pencils you can get for shading that i like to use they have a really soft lead and darker. make sure to make the shadows DARK. and use your finger to spread the shade. into areas. your gonna have to do alot of erasing. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> to get it all just right.
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  • InafiscisisInafiscisis Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15965Members
    Yes, soft pencil.

    I try to avoid smudging with my finger unless it's charcoal. I preferr going really really thin over the area,
    barely touching the paper, and instead go over the paper many times. This usually results in quite
    thick shades. I usually get fingerprints when smudging shadows and such. And since I do the shading
    last of all, they tend to appear on details and places they would make the most damage. Just hate that.
    On the other hand the method I described is rather time consuming, and quite hard to make it look right.
    Miss a spot means erase and restart.
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  • BOOBOO Join Date: 2003-07-28 Member: 18504Members
    well with some picture the smudging with the finger isnt good. for like sketch a detailed face of a person. for other pictures what he suggests above is good. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> i have been taught be various teachers to do the smudging tech. ( you can also use a peice of napkin or paper to smudge it with out leaving finger prints.) those where classes specificly for drawing and shading the human face. cause it makes the picture look more real rather than a sketch. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> but for other classes that i took for drawing other sorts of figures whether it be a human or any other figure and backgrounds they taught me to use the line shading tech. varying the thickness in lines running closely and parrell to each other, to shade. cause with that tech. you can shade areas with more accuracy. using diffrent kinds of pencils for lighter or darker lines. will get it more accurate on the shading too. just make the lines are close enough together so it adds the illusion of it being shaded rather than being a bunch of lines. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • PRIMERPRIMER Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14634Members
    One way I learned how to shade is to squint. The areas that get much darker from squinting are the areas to focus on mostly.
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    edited July 2003
    thank you very much guys <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I am not a great artist, just a novice, but I want to draw my hands and I know there are some ways to doing it.
    The hardest part I find is shading, because there are so many ways, some forms of shading look awkward and what not, but do you have any suggestions? If not, I will try what you guys have already mentioned.

    I will be using drawing graphite pencils and btw, if there are any good art drawing books or exercise on shading, I would be deeply thankful.

    -peace
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  • BOOBOO Join Date: 2003-07-28 Member: 18504Members
    edited July 2003
    i can scan some stuff from books i have on shading. there is an exercise on shading hands in it... ill be gone till sunday though. but ill try to email you it before i leave. if you have a prefered email for me to send it too PM it to me. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • InafiscisisInafiscisis Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15965Members
    Any large library is sure to have a couple shelves reserved for books on painting and drawing.
    If you were in Sweden I could recommend a few, but...well, kind of hard now.
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