axeman61
May 14th, 2005, 02:52 PM
This is as much a request of your process when you shade a drawing as an attempt to soak up information.
I'm starting to get back into drawing ever since I've suddenly run across a construction technique which allows me to achieve the variety and nice look in my faces I've wanted for so long.
To dodge the long story after that, let me just say that I did a portrait of Beyonce from a magazine. I'm still not finished with it, as it's part of an art project. It's gotten praise, but I would have to show people who I'm drawing from for them to see what I'm doing. I've since gotten the odd feeling that it's not my drawing, it's the shading. Maybe if I shaded her like she looks in the picture, she would look closer to Beyonce. She looks like a white woman now.
The problem is that I don't even know where to start with this. I don't shade well. I have a circular technique down which allows me to lay an even shade if I'm patient and consistent, but it can take a while. Also, I always end up shading darker than what I want. Mind you, I'm using a mechanical pencil all the way. My thing is getting some sand paper and flattening the edge of the led to a chisel point like this /_ / before I shade so that the circles cover more area.
So I want to know how you guys shade stuff. How you start, what pencils you use, what techinique you use, and whatever else you feel like giving me. It would help me a lot.
I'm starting to get back into drawing ever since I've suddenly run across a construction technique which allows me to achieve the variety and nice look in my faces I've wanted for so long.
To dodge the long story after that, let me just say that I did a portrait of Beyonce from a magazine. I'm still not finished with it, as it's part of an art project. It's gotten praise, but I would have to show people who I'm drawing from for them to see what I'm doing. I've since gotten the odd feeling that it's not my drawing, it's the shading. Maybe if I shaded her like she looks in the picture, she would look closer to Beyonce. She looks like a white woman now.
The problem is that I don't even know where to start with this. I don't shade well. I have a circular technique down which allows me to lay an even shade if I'm patient and consistent, but it can take a while. Also, I always end up shading darker than what I want. Mind you, I'm using a mechanical pencil all the way. My thing is getting some sand paper and flattening the edge of the led to a chisel point like this /_ / before I shade so that the circles cover more area.
So I want to know how you guys shade stuff. How you start, what pencils you use, what techinique you use, and whatever else you feel like giving me. It would help me a lot.