Original techniques and techniques of drawing. child drawing

Blotography

It consists in teaching children how to make blots (black and multi-colored). Then a 3-year-old child can look at them and see images, objects or individual details.

You will need gouache, a thick brush and paper (preferably 1/2 or 1/4 sheet).

Fold the paper in half and unfold it again. On one half, ask your child to put a few bold blots, strokes or curls. Now fold the sheet in half again and press firmly with your palm. Carefully unfold the sheet. You will see a bizarre pattern "What does your or my inkblot look like?", "Whom or what does it remind you of?" - these questions are very useful, because develop thinking and imagination. After that, without forcing the child, but showing, we recommend moving on to the next step - tracing or drawing the blot. The result can be a whole story.

bitmap

Children love anything non-traditional. Drawing with dots refers to unusual, in this case, techniques. For implementation, you can take a felt-tip pen, a pencil or an ordinary ear cleaning stick. But here, bitmaps are best obtained with paints.

You will need a separate stick for each color. With this technique, lilac or mimosa flowers are perfectly obtained. Draw twig lines with a felt-tip pen. And already make clusters of flowers with chopsticks. But this is already aerobatics! No less pleasure will bring the child and drawing simpler things - flowers and berries (stalks can be drawn with a felt-tip pen). And you can cut out a dress from paper (a scarf, a tablecloth, mittens) and decorate it with an ornament of dots.

foam drawings

For some reason, we all tend to think that if we paint with paints, then we must also use a brush. Not always. Foam rubber can come to the rescue. We advise you to make a variety of various small geometric figures out of it, and then attach them with a thin wire to a stick or pencil (not sharpened). The tool is ready.It turns out a large brush without hairs. The stick is held strictly perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, without tilt.Now you can dip it in paint and use the stamp method to draw red triangles, yellow circles, green squares (all foam rubber, unlike cotton wool, is well washed). At first, children will randomly draw geometric shapes. And then offer to make the simplest ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.

The trace left by such a "brush" can imitate animal hair, tree crowns, snow. A stick with foam rubber is dipped in paint (the main thing is that there is not a lot of water), and the baby begins to cover the sheet with traces of it. Let him first just understand that with the help of the "magic wand" you can quickly and easily draw footprints. Then draw the branches of a tree or a bush with a black felt-tip pen, let the child finish the foliage with green, yellow, red or orange paint. Draw a simple outline of a bunny or a fox with a pencil, let the kid “stomp” it with his “magic tool” - the bunny and the fox will turn out fluffy, their fur will seem so disheveled that the baby will certainly want to touch it.

It is extremely interesting to work in this technique with a stencil. Cut out an image in the middle of a thick sheet of cardboard, such as the head of a tiger cub or a bear. Attach the cardboard with the cut-out stencil to the album sheet and invite the child to “trample” that part of the album sheet that is visible through the stencil hole. After the child has done this, let the work dry, then paint the eyes, mouth, mustache, stripes with a brush.

« Figured "figurine

A very interesting way of drawing with a pencil, felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen according to pre-made stencils. Stencils can be of two types - some are cut inside the sheet, others are made from the sheet and separated from it. It is easier for small children to trace shapes embossed inside the sheet. Many squares and rulers have such patterns. Attaching them to the album sheet, you ask the baby to circle the shapes. Then you remove the stencil and together with it you come up with how you can finish drawing this or that shape. Children 4.5-5 years old will be able to circle single stencils cut out of cardboard. This is more difficult, because the hand does not hold well on the outside of the pattern and the baby draws extra lines. But children can be interested in the content of stencils: for boys, these are the silhouettes of cars and planes, for girls, animals, nesting dolls, bows and houses. Having circled the patterns, children can paint over their images with felt-tip pens and paints, hatch with various lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, with loops, wavy with sharp tops. Stencils can help when creating your own drawings, they will complement what the baby himself has created.
You can start a game: the child circles various objects, and you guess what it is. First, not all items can be circled. Finding them, the baby will understand what is the difference between voluminous and flat objects or things that have at least one even side, and those that do not. Secondly, it is not easy to circle this or that object on your own, without the help of an adult. And thirdly, in this game, the roles change: the baby confuses the parents, and the adults try to find the answer. All this pleases the child, providing him with a surge of creative forces.

Mysterious drawings

Mysterious drawings can be obtained as follows. A cardboard about 20x20 cm in size is taken. And it folds in half. Then a semi-woolen or woolen thread about 30 cm long is selected, its end is dipped in thick paint for 8-10 cm and clamped inside the cardboard. You should then move this thread inside the cardboard, and then take it out and open the cardboard. It turns out a chaotic image, which is examined, outlined and completed by adults with children. It is extremely useful to give names to the resulting images. This complex mental and speech work, combined with visual work, will contribute to the intellectual development of preschool children.

Drawing with crayons

Preschoolers love variety. These opportunities provide us with ordinary crayons, sanguine, coal. Smooth asphalt, porcelain, ceramic tiles, stones - this is the base on which chalk and coal fit well. So, asphalt disposes to a capacious image of plots. They (if there is no rain) can be developed the next day. And then make up stories according to the plots. And on ceramic tiles (which are sometimes stored in the remains somewhere in the pantry), we recommend depicting patterns, small objects with crayons or charcoal. Large stones (such as boulders) are asked to decorate them under the image of an animal's head or under a stump. It depends on what or whom the stone resembles in shape.

painting with foam

Take paints, shampoo, water, a glass and a straw for cocktails. And gurgle yourself in a glass of a lot of colored bubbles.

And then, together with the children, apply paper to the multi-colored foam, and flowers, fireworks, ice cream and much more were imprinted there that you and your baby can see.

magic drawing method

This method is implemented like this. An image is drawn on white paper with the corner of a wax candle (a Christmas tree, a house, or maybe a whole plot). Then with a brush, and preferably with cotton wool or foam rubber, the paint is applied on top of the entire image. Due to the fact that the paint does not fall on the bold image with a candle - the drawing seems to appear suddenly before the eyes of the children, manifesting itself. You can get the same effect by first drawing with stationery glue or a piece of laundry soap. In this case, the selection of the background to the subject plays an important role. For example, it is better to paint over a snowman painted with a candle with blue paint, and a boat with green paint. No need to worry if candles or soap start to crumble while painting. It depends on their quality.

photocopy

We draw a drawing with a candle on a white sheet. Paint over with black ink.

Drawing small pebbles

Of course, most often the child depicts on a plane, on paper, less often on asphalt, tiles of large stones. A flat image of a house, trees, cars, animals on paper is not as attractive as creating volumetric own creations. In this regard, sea pebbles are ideally used. They are smooth, small and have a different shape. The very shape of the pebble will sometimes tell the child what image to create in this case (and sometimes adults will help the kids). It is better to paint one pebble under a frog, another under a bug, and a wonderful fungus will come out of the third. Bright thick paint is applied to the pebble - and the image is ready. And it’s better to finish it like this: after the pebble dries, cover it with a colorless varnish. In this case, a voluminous beetle or a frog made by children's hands shines, brightly shimmers. This toy will participate in independent children's games more than once and bring considerable benefits to its owner.

strange patterns

Take whatman paper and a small orange (tangerine) or a ball, pour a little paint of a different color on a sheet and roll the ball along the sheet in different directions. Then "revive" the received.

Finger painting method

Here is another way to depict the world around us: with fingers, palm, fist, foot, and maybe even chin, nose. Not everyone will take such a statement seriously. Where is the line between prank and drawing? And why should we draw only with a brush or felt-tip pen? After all, a hand or individual fingers is such a help. Moreover, the index finger of the right hand obeys the child better than a pencil. Well, if the pencil is broken, the brush is wiped off, the felt-tip pens are over - but you want to draw. There is another reason: sometimes the theme just asks for a child's hand or finger. For example, a child will better draw a tree with his hands than with other tools. With his finger, he will draw out the trunk and branches, then (if it is autumn) he will apply yellow, green, orange paints to the inside of the hand and draw a crimson-mahogany tree on top. It is good to mix several colors and shades. For example, first apply yellow paint, and then brown or orange, it turns out fluffy!

Well, if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not just one index finger, but all.

Monotopy method

Two words about this, unfortunately, rarely used method. And in vain. Because he is fraught with a lot of tempting for preschoolers. In short, this is an image on cellophane, which is then transferred to paper. On smooth cellophane I paint with paint using a brush, or a match with cotton wool, or a finger (no uniformity is needed). The paint should be thick and bright. And immediately, until the paint has dried, turn the cellophane over with the image down on white thick paper and, as it were, wet the drawing, and then lift it up. It turns out two drawings. Sometimes the image remains on cellophane, sometimes on paper.

Drawing under the film

We squeeze out the paint onto cardboard or paper, put the film on top and smooth it with cotton wool, then sharply pull the film away. In this way, the sunset, the sea, the fire are good ...

Drawing on wet paper

Until recently, it was believed that you can only draw on dry paper, because the paint is sufficiently diluted with water. But there are a number of objects, plots, images that are better to draw on wet paper. We need ambiguity, vagueness, for example, if the child wants to depict the following topics: "City in the fog", "I had dreams", "It's raining", "Night city", "Flowers behind the curtain", etc. You need to teach a preschooler to make the paper a little wet. If the paper is too wet, the drawing may not work. Therefore, it is recommended to soak a ball of cotton wool in clean water, wring it out and draw it either over the entire sheet of paper, or (if required) only over a separate part. And the paper is ready to produce vague images.

Drawing with postcards

Almost every house has a lot of old postcards. Go through old postcards with the children, teach them to cut out the necessary images and stick them to the place, into the plot. A bright factory image of objects and phenomena will give even the simplest unpretentious drawing a completely artistic design. It is sometimes difficult for a three-, four- and even five-year-old child to draw a dog and a beetle. You can take them ready-made, and let him add the sun, rain to the dog and the bug and he will be very happy. Or if, together with the children, cut out from a postcard and stick on a fairy-tale house with a grandmother in the window, then a preschooler, guided by his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, will undoubtedly draw something for him.

Mirror copy

Another method is based on the fact that a silhouette drawn with paints can be easily printed when a sheet of paper is applied to it. The sequence of work is as follows: the sheet is bent in half, unfolded, the surface is slightly wetted with water. On one half of the sheet, the silhouette of an object or part of a symmetrical image is drawn with paints, for example, half a Christmas tree, half a flower, half a house. The sheet is folded and strongly pressed by hand. Expanding the sheet, you will see a whole image or two objects (if you drew a whole object on one half). This method is to the liking of many kids, the appearance of the same image on the second half of the sheet seems like a miracle to children. When the work dries, the details can be finished with felt-tip pens, pencils or paints.

Whose footprint

Another way of drawing, or rather, printing, is based on the ability of many objects to leave colorful prints on paper. You take a potato, cut it in half and cut out a square, a triangle, a rhombus, a flower or something interesting from one half. Moreover, one side of the print should be flat for applying to the paper, and you will hold on to the other side with your hand. Then you or a child dip such a signet in paint (preferably gouache) and apply it to paper. As you can guess, it leaves an imprint. With the help of these prints, you can make beads, ornaments, patterns, mosaics.

Not only potatoes can serve as a stamp, but also bottle caps, caps from felt-tip pens, buttons, small boxes, etc.

You can try to depict something according to the principle of designing from different parts. For example, a car (coil - wheels, cubes - body and window); the castle of the sorceress, animals, etc.

salty drawings

But what if you paint with glue, and sprinkle salt on top of these areas? Then you get amazing snow pictures. They will look more impressive if they are performed on blue, blue, pink colored paper. Try it, it's very exciting!

tooth paint

Or let's create winter landscapes in another way - painting with toothpaste. Beforehand, the kid needs to be explained that this is a creative search, and such use of toothpaste does not give him the right to squeeze it out on the floor, shelves and tables. Together with the baby, outline with a pencil the light contours of trees, houses, snowdrifts. Slowly squeezing out the toothpaste, walk it along all the outlined contours. Such work must be dried and it is better not to put it in a folder along with other drawings. For creativity, it is best to use a domestic product - it dries faster.

Relief drawing

Flour is added to the paint, applied to the sheet. The cardboard strip is cut into teeth and we draw patterns along and across. Cut out a shape from a dried sheet, for example a vase. We draw flowers on a white sheet, and then glue them. You can draw with a stick, toothpick, fork, match.

glue picture

We squeeze glue onto the image on paper, let it dry, and then paint it over with paint, we get a relief.

Like an artist to an artist

And here is a very unusual way! You need to get a large sheet of paper. You ask the baby to lie on such a sheet and circle it. Of course, it is better that it fits all (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper) or, in extreme cases, to fit the torso and head. You circled the baby, and now his time has come - let him try to decorate the silhouette: draw eyes, mouth, hair, jewelry, clothes. If the child is small, then do this work together - the kid offers, and you, admiring his imagination, draw with him.

rainy fantasy

Another option for unconventional drawing is as follows: during rain or snowfall, you boldly open the window and expose a sheet of paper for less than a minute, holding it horizontally. You probably guessed that drops of rain or snow will remain on the leaf. And this is what we were striving for. Bad weather tracks can now be traced and turned into fabulous creatures. They can also be connected to each other, guessing what kind of image is obtained.

Point drawing

An adult prepares a drawing scheme in advance, placing contour points. They say to the child: “Do you want to be surprised? Then connect the dots with each other in order!” Offer to finish the resulting contour, color it, come up with a plot and a name.

Picture from both sides

You will need a cardboard sheet, a wide brush, paper clips, colored pencils. First you need to paint over a sheet of cardboard with any paint (an old cardboard folder will do). Immediately, before the paint is dry, place a sheet of plain white paper (preferably writing paper) on top. Attach the paper with paper clips and let the child draw something with a colored pencil on a white sheet. If you want, you can use a coloring book, but the drawing should be simple - some kind of object. When the drawing is finished, unfasten and remove the paper. See what happened - on the side that was pressed against the folder, we got a color picture with a convex, as if imprinted pattern.

scratches

Take a thick paint that is not diluted with water (it is better to use acrylic or gouache) and draw a colored spot. Scratch the lines with a piece of cardboard or crochet hook. Or you can cut out the cardboard with cloves and scratch the scallops in the paint. Crochet through different curls. With the edge of the cardboard, extrude the lines crosswise. Make prints with the cap of a felt-tip pen. After the child has mastered this technique, you can begin to create a picture. To do this, apply paint of different colors on several sheets of paper and scratch the surface in different ways. Now assemble the composition. For example, cut a pond from a piece with scallops, a sky with clouds from curls, make a snake from a scaly surface, and so on. Paste the cut out elements on a blank sheet of paper.

Place a stencil on colored paper. It can be various flowers, silhouettes of houses, trees. In a jar of yogurt, liquidly dilute the paint. Dip your toothbrush into the paint and run the ruler along the bristles of the brush towards you, spattering the paint around the silhouette. Try to have the entire background covered with specks. Remove the stencil and draw details on the “clean” part of the drawing. You can also use tree leaves as stencils.

autumn picture

Collect with the baby a few leaves of different trees. On the bottom of the sheet (where the veins protrude), apply an even layer of paint. Carefully lay the sheet on the paper with the painted side down, press the structure on top with a napkin. Now you can remove the napkin and the sheet, and a nice print will remain on the paper. For an autumn picture, make red, yellow, green and orange prints of leaves from different trees on paper.

The concept itself explains the meaning of this method: several of the above are collected in it. In general, ideally, the following seems important to us: it is good when a preschooler is not only familiar with various image techniques, but also does not forget about them, but uses them appropriately, fulfilling a given goal. For example, one of the children of 5-6 years old decided to draw summer, and for this he uses a bitmap (flowers), and the child draws the sun with his finger, he cuts fruits and vegetables from postcards, depicts the sky and clouds with fabrics, etc. There is no limit to improvement and creativity in visual activity.

You will need a drinking tube. You can use either tempera or acrylics to create a unique painting using only straw blowing skills. Dilute some paint with water.

Pour a small amount of one of the flowers onto the paper. Hold one end of the tube near the paint and blow it in all directions. Guess what you got.

Oksana Deneko

Probably all the kids love it paint. And they especially welcome non-traditional ways of drawing. But it plays into our hands, because any drawing promotes development of creative thinking, imagination, creativity, expansion of ideas about the world around. It also develops fine motor skills of the hand, trains the muscles of the hand, prepares the hand for writing.

Shaving foam - very unusual drawing surface. The paint on it can be stretched and twisted with beautiful lines, curls and other patterns. Sometimes it resembles paper quilling. Each drawing is unique! At drawing the principle of monotype is used on the foam - drawing with unique prints. We use dried paper in the classroom, for wrapping gifts, and even for further drawing!

Materials and tools:

flat tray, lid or plate, or just an A-4 sheet.

shaving foam,

We take ANY colors!

a thin brush or toothpicks, combs, foam pads, brushes of different sizes.

Ruler (we took plastic) or strips of thick cardboard.

a pack of napkins, you can put a basin of water to rinse the ruler.

And also ENTHUSIASM, GOOD MOOD, CREATIVITY!

First, let's prepare the work surface)

Apply some foam to a tray or sheet A-4.

Use a ruler or a strip of cardboard to level, smooth the foam over the surface

Armed with ANY PAINTS, we begin paint…

We painted today only with brushes, it turned out like this ....

When the image is ready, attach a sheet of paper to it and press it so that the image is printed on the sheet, but you should not press the sheet too hard.

Careful not to smudge the drawing, peel off the paper and lay it foam-side up for a few minutes to absorb the ink

Remove the remaining foam from the drawing by running a ruler or cardboard over it.

Let's leave the drawing to dry.

And here's what we ended up with...

And with the remaining foam, you can think of a lot more) For example, to mold something from it

Or you can invite your child to play with multi-colored foam - touch it with your palm and remove your hand, touch it again, collect foam in your palm and clench your hand into a fist, stretch or pass between your fingers.

Relaxation of fingers and palms, unusual pleasant sensory sensations, useful for development, as well as positive emotions for the child are provided

Role drawing in the formation of speech in a child is great. As we know, adults - stimulation of fine motor skills, namely the movement of fingers hands: fast, slow, conscious, leads to an increase and activation of speech activity. The more attention is paid to this during the period when the child begins to speak, the faster the process of speech production goes.

Drawing in turn performs two functions: aesthetic perception of the world through drawing and increased speech activity.

In addition, it is very pleasant to see joyful and desired fruits. enlightenment: skills drawing, joy in the eyes of the child, the immense happiness that he receives from his creativity.

Recently, we analyzed seven simple watercolor painting techniques, and if you have mastered them, then it's time to move on to something more complex and interesting. Today we're going to look at six more interesting techniques that will help you create your own masterpiece.

Spray

We wetted the bottom of the paper to see what happens.

This technique is quite simple. Just fill the brush with paint and start tapping the bristles of the brush on your finger so that the splashes scatter randomly

If your brush is too wet, it will be difficult for you to control the spray. Therefore, shake off a few drops from it, and only then get to work.

If you don't like to hit your fingers with a brush, then you can use any tool at hand, a pen, for example.

Before we start splattering our paint, let's place the pieces of paper in the top corner of our canvas.

We also wet the bottom edge of the sheet with clean water and tinted it with a light purple color.

Look for an old toothbrush, rinse it, and remove any remaining toothpaste. And get ready for the mess.

There are several ways to get paint on your toothbrush. You can dip it in paint, it's very difficult to fill the bristles with paint that way. You can try filling your toothbrush with a brush. This way you can control the amount of paint.

Take your toothbrush and run your thumb over the bristles. You can also use improvised means. Choose a tool with which you will be comfortable spraying paint from the bristles. Notice how the speed of the movements and the distance of the brush from the paper affect the atomization of the paint.

When you want to spray a different color paint, give your toothbrush a good rinse and dry it with a towel.

Don't worry if you don't do this technique as well as you would like. Practice and you will succeed.

As you can see, it turns out quite an interesting effect. Use the tools at hand that you have, use your imagination and get creative with drawing.

Sgraffito and stamps

Sgraffito is an Italian term that refers to the scraping technique associated with abrading the top coat of a pottery to expose the underlying layers.

In the example, we scraped off the paint with a penknife. If you scrape off the paint that has not yet dried, which has soaked deep into the paper, you will get dark lines.

If used wisely, this technique can create interesting landscapes by scraping out the shapes of trees and other flora.

You can use old credit cards to scrape off the paint. With a smooth side card, you can sweep away paint residue.

Many brushes have a pointed edge. You can use these brushes to create thin lines.

It is very important to understand after what interval you need to start scraping. Practice on a separate sheet of the same paper and with the same paints.

A stamp is the application of paint by pressing other objects onto paper. You can choose any material in order to create stamps. Try everything that comes your way.

In this example, we are using face wipes. Fill them with paint and apply stamps to the top of the paper.

You can also use a sponge. With its help, we will depict the grass.

You can play with textures using different materials. Experiment!

Don't be afraid to use body parts for stamps. Everything has its own use!

Washout

A relatively simple technique will help you create unusual and interesting textures.

First, cover the top of the paper with blue paint.

Then quickly paint over the rest of the canvas with red. This is what our drawing will look like at this stage.

Now rinse the brush well and refill it with clean water. With light movements of the brush, sprinkle drops of water on the still wet paint.

Keep splashing water until you are satisfied with the result.

The extent to which the paint has dried can be understood by the strength of the effect of water on it. Notice that the more water that gets on the same area, the lighter the shade of the paint becomes there.

Don't get frustrated if you can't control the blur. You, most likely, will not succeed, since it is quite difficult to influence this process.

Experiment with the amount of water, colors, and how dry the paint is. This technique can help you create interesting and textured backgrounds.

We use alcohol

You will need cotton swabs and alcohol.

Thickly paint over your sheet with paint.

Create the background shade you want and get ready for the fun.

Dip a Q-tip in alcohol and begin to drip it onto the paint.

Alcohol, falling on the paint, repels it, as it were, creating a bright spot.

Try dripping rubbing alcohol onto the paint as it dries to see the effect.

It turns out pretty nice, doesn't it?

This interesting technique allows you to create unusual textures.

We use salt

Obviously, we will need salt for this technique.

Let's draw the sky and the hill.

The second hill we will have is crimson, mix it a little with the first hill to get an interesting transition.

Now take the salt and sprinkle our drawing with it. After a few minutes, add some more salt. She pushes the paint away from herself, creating an unusual texture.

Let's wait for it all to dry and see what happens next.

After the drawing has dried, the effect that the salt has given becomes more visible.

Shake the salt off the drawing and enjoy the result.

It is better to use a sponge to brush off the salt. This way you don't damage the paint. Lightly clean the drawing, try not to rub it.

The salt absorbed the paint, creating a huge amount of star-like specks.

It is worth noting that coarse salt will leave larger spots, and fine, respectively, smaller ones.

There are different drawing techniques - some of them are traditional, others are unconventional and even innovative. In general, the drawing technique is characterized not so much by the materials used, but by the method of applying paints. The length and direction of the strokes, their brightness, and the ways of mixing colors matter. All this is individual for each artist, and forms his style. But still there are basic varieties of techniques in drawing, which are distinguished by the colors used. So the most famous and popular drawing techniques include: drawing with a pencil, gouache, watercolor, oil and pastel.

The simplest technique is the pencil drawing technique. Everyone starts with pencil drawings. Small children pick up a pencil and begin to create their masterpieces. The technique of drawing with a pencil does not require any special skill. In addition, pencil drawings are a preparatory stage for other techniques. However, the pencil technique has its own secrets of how to achieve the accuracy of the drawing, its high quality. For example, one of these secrets is the technique of shading.

Gouache paints are good for beginners. They are good at learning to draw. They are diluted with water, are opaque and can overlap one color with another. When drawing with gouache, you can take any colors and paint them in any order. Paints can be mixed on the palette and get different shades.

gouache paints

The watercolor technique is more complex, it often remains incomprehensible and mysterious. The seeming lightness here is deceptive. Watercolor from the Latin aqua water. It is the artist's ability to control this water element mixed with paint that determines his mastery and mastery of this technique. Watercolor is fluid and transparent, receptive to the movement of the brush. This is a favorite technique of many artists.

Oil paints are painted mainly in two ways: with and without underpainting. The first method requires quite complex preparation. There are no strict rules for applying oil strokes or paint layers. Try different options. Sometimes the shade of a vertical brushstroke doesn't fit into the work, but if you put it horizontally, it will look good. In general, a non-professional artist can also paint an oil painting.

In order to work with soft pastel crayons, a rough, fleecy surface is needed. You can draw and write with pastel, that is, you can depict figures with lines and contours, and then paint over them, or you can create multi-color paintings with small strokes that mix, rub and shade. Pastel looks very beautiful on a dark background, so tinted paper is often used in this technique.

Recently, another very popular and common drawing technique has appeared - drawing with a stylus on the tablet screen. This technique is suitable for both beginners and professionals. There are even programs that help to master the technique of drawing on the screen for both children and adults. For example, the "How to Draw" program offers to master drawings of varying degrees of complexity and different styles.

Drawing on the tablet screen

But in whatever technique you decide to show your creative abilities, remember that training will help you realize your wildest ideas.

This article will focus on pencil drawing. If you want to learn how to draw, but just can't get started, now is the time to start learning. Take a sheet of paper, a pencil and try 🙂 Let's start with the drawing technique.

Pencil Drawing Technique

There are two main drawing techniques - shading and shading with a pencil.

Hatching

With the help of strokes (short lines) you can very well convey the tone of the subject. Depending on the number of strokes drawn, you can get different levels of tone saturation (the fewer strokes, the lighter the tone, the more strokes, the darker). By the direction of the strokes, you can convey the texture of the surface of the figure. For example, horizontal strokes will convey the surface of the water well, and vertical strokes - the grass.

Basically, hatching is done with short straight strokes with approximately the same distance between them. Strokes are superimposed on paper with a pencil tear-off. First, one thin line is made, then the pencil returns to the start line, and in this way all other strokes are applied.

To enhance the depth of tone, you can apply crosshatching. For example, a horizontal hatch is applied to oblique hatching, darkening the tone, then on what came out, you can impose oblique hatching in the opposite direction to the first one - this will darken even more. In this case, the darkest tone will be the one where the hatching of all directions is combined.

shading

Feathering is one of the main techniques that can be applied when drawing to beginner artists. With the help of gradation of tone, you can give the figure volume. In general, feathering is a special case of hatching. After applying strokes, using the properties of pencil graphite and a special shading tool, they are shaded (smeared) until a uniform tone is obtained.

However, the implementation of the shading itself has a number of features.

1. Feathering strokes must be done along the strokes, but not across. By feathering along the strokes, you will achieve a more natural toning.
2. For shading, not only simple hatching is used, but also zigzag strokes.

With the help of such techniques, you can draw anything on paper.

10 common mistakes newbies make

Most people who enjoy drawing take the first steps on their own. And even if it's just a hobby, they still make various sketches. We want to write about 10 possible mistakes that all aspiring artists must face.

1. The wrong pencil

If your shadows don't come out well, check the markings on your pencil. He's probably too hard. Shadows are recommended to be drawn with pencils marked B, 2B and 4B, but not HB.

2. Drawing from photos

Each artist begins to draw from photographs. But very often photographs do not convey enough facial features for a good drawing. When a person's face is located in front, it will be difficult to correctly model his face on paper, since the perspective behind the head disappears. Try taking a photo where the person's head is tilted slightly to the side. Thus, the portrait will be more realistic and with better shadow reproduction.

3. Wrong basic proportions

Very often people start paying attention to details right away, drawing them completely without sketching the whole drawing. This is wrong as you are not planning the right proportions ahead of time. First, it is desirable to sketch the entire drawing, and only then draw in depth the details.

4. Twisted features

We are accustomed to look at a person directly and align when drawing. As a result, the portrait comes out quite distorted. When drawing complex objects, try to first outline the guides, along which it will be easier to build a drawing later.

5. Animal drawing

We usually look at our animal from top to bottom. From this, the head seems to us larger than the whole body, and normal proportionality is lost. Try to distract the animal so that it turns its face to the side, then the drawing will come out more truthful.

6. Strokes

If you draw each hair or blade of grass separately, then the drawing will come out disgusting. Try to make sharp sketches, going from dark to light.

7. Trees

Do not try to draw trees, flowers, leaves with the correct forms. Use contours and shadows for realism.

8. Wrong paper

Before buying paper, test it on a piece of paper, drawing something light. The paper may be too smooth and the pattern will be washed out. Also, the paper may be too stiff and the drawing will be quite flat.

9. Volumetric

When transferring volume, try not to use clear lines for the edges. They can be outlined by light lines of different tonality.

10. Shadows

Very often it does not work out to apply shadows evenly. Try to use the full color range of the pencil, going from light to darkest. If you are afraid to go too far with the dark, put a piece of paper under the edge, and all the black will be on it.

At first it may seem that pencil drawings are too ordinary, dull. But with the help of a pencil, you can convey a huge amount of emotions.

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