Drawing lesson "How to shade and blend with pencils?"

April 12, 2018

Drawing lesson "How to shade and blend with pencils?"

"Smooth Shading Exercises"
Material required for the shading exercises:-
Color pencils (faber castell or any )

H, 2b pencil

Sharpener

Ruler

Eraser

Sketch paper

Exercise 1:"Shading with gradation"

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1.Draw a Square 4 x 4 inches
2.Then draw 2 more squares inside 0.5 inches gap

3.Then another with 0.2 inches gap

4.and last one will be 0.1 inches from all sides.

Start shading from the smallest square by shading in layers and then gradually go lighter till the last one which is the highlight part.You can go vice versa as well

Exercise 2:"Shading with Basic color"

1.Draw 6 free hand circles

2.Choose any color pencil

3.Start shading in layers from darkest till highlight creating a value scale

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Exercise 3 :"Shading in & around design with color mixing"

1.Draw spiral and shade with pencil

2.Draw and shade and develop form

3.Draw any design and practice shading and blending colors in and around lines and curves

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Before you actually begin to draw or paint as an art student , for educational purposes or as a hobby;it is essential to understand the importance of shading & blending .Now the question appears what is shading & why is so important in drawing?

"Shading is an art used to show the depth of a drawing."

When we draw realistically ,it is actually conversion of something which is
two-dimensional to appear as three-dimensional through shading.This purpose is achieved by practice and basic understanding of lights and dark falling over the object and casting shadows.

See in this example

This image is taken from the blog Light & Form

There are many ways to shade,most popular are four techniques.

Hatching,Crosshatching, Smooth, and Stippling.

This image is taken from the blog Shading technique

Smooth Shading

is done by working in layers and adjusting the pressure of pencil stroke which results in blending of the tones.

here it is important to understand the value scale

VALUE SCALE

The value scale is a system of organizing values. It consists of nine values ranging from white to black, with several shades of gray in between. These shades of gray make up the “meat” of a drawing, and help to create the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality.