In order to learn how to draw volumetric figures, it is very important to master the technique that will allow you to achieve the most realistic images. Hatching with a pencil makes it possible to create not only simple pictures, but also to transfer complex images.
Equipment Capabilities
Pencil shading allows you to correctly depict the desired tone. Perform such patterns with lines of different frequencies, which allows you to portray tones of varying saturation. Cross-hatching is used to deepen the tone.
If you carefully look at the drawing made in this technique, then even in the darkest tone you can find all kinds of hatching: vertical, horizontal and oblique. Using pencil hatching, you can not only convey the tone of the picture, but even show the surface of the objects depicted on it.
In addition to the usual direct hatching, relief hatching is often used in drawing. This type of filling of the picture is necessary to give relief to certain objects (as the name implies). For example, elements such as the lips of a person are often shaped in arched lines.
It will be useful for a beginner to keep on the desktop the so-called stroke palette, which depicts various types and colors of hatching. With the help of such a table it will be easier to understand which shading should be applied in each case. Ideally, if this palette is created by the draftsman himself, after all, among other things, it is also an excellent skill training.
Little child training
Learning to draw children can begin at a very young age. When a child is just learning to pencil on paper, he can already be taught to do it right, put on the first shtrishki, painting some cat or house. In this case, the kid does not need to know all the drawing techniques in general and hatching in particular. The maximum that can be taught him is to colorize the house using different saturation of tone. Just for such small drawings as a house or a car, pencil hatching is ideal. For children, it is not so important that the texture of the house is perfectly depicted, the main thing is that it is very similar to a real house, and the kid did it himself.
Drawing to preschool children
All children love to draw. Most often, the creations of preschoolers are still difficult to call drawings, rather, they are just a collection of icons, individual objects, suspended “in the air” schematic animals. If they started drawing with a child from early childhood, then by the age of 5-7 they should have already mastered the initial hatching with a pencil. For preschoolers, this is a rather interesting way of drawing, because it does not require special skills. However, by this age, the child is already quite capable of depicting geometric figures, denoting light and shadow.
In addition to drawing skills, pencil hatching for preschoolers also helps the development of fine motor skills, promotes learning perseverance and even grafting good handwriting.
Complex drawings
Pencil shading was born from lithography and line etching. The great artists of the Norman school were fond of similar drawing techniques. With the advent of pencil in our life, this type of art has received a new development. Many gorgeous drawings are created using this technique. With skillful use of the stroke, you can create an image with a volume and transmitting space. Different thickness of the lines allows you to realistically convey the depth of space.
A competent draftsman is able to depict incredibly complex paintings, looking at which it is simply impossible to believe that this is hatching with a simple pencil. Often, such pictures are created that are more like photographs, with many tones, transitions and the smallest expressive details.
To achieve success in drawing, you must always exercise. Hatching with a pencil is not the most difficult method of drawing, you can even learn it yourself by studying the work of the masters and repeating the exercises. By analyzing and identifying your mistakes, you can succeed in drawing with a pencil. There have already been cases in history when a person became a popular artist, although he began to draw at an advanced age.