432K views · 9.8K reactions | Do you know all SEVEN shading techniques? #drawinglesson | Do you know all SEVEN shading techniques? #drawinglesson | By Mark Liam Smith | There's seven techniques for shading. I go through them all in my book, The New Artist Guide to Drawing and talk about the pros and cons but if you don't have the book, here's a quick summary. Simple hatching. Using the tip of your pencil, draw lines all in the same direction. It doesn't have to be up and down, can be side to side, but they all need to be parallel. Keep going over areas that you want darker or press down harder to make lines darker. Next is cross hatching. Start the same way you did for hatching. Then hatch again in a different direction. If you made vertical you might make horizontal. The lines don't have to be perpendicular but for best effect they usually are. Next we have contour hatching. Unlike the first two kinds of hatching which don't care at all about the shape of the object. In contour hatching you draw lines according to the shape of the object you're drawing. Imagine you're drawing a line on the surface of the sphere or arm or shoe or whatever it is you're drawing. The line should follow the form of the object. Next my most hated is stippling. With stippling you put down thousands of dots you put down more dots in area you want to be darker. This is very hard on the hand though it does have a pretty cool effect. The opposite of stippling is scribbling. Make random scribbles over your object. The parts of the object you want darker scribble more. It's quick, easy and fun. And the last two are more for realism. There's blending. With blending you use the side of your pencil. You start very lightly. And you keep going over areas. Blending the layers on top. You very carefully and methodically pushing the graphite into the paper on top of previous layers. This is a great way to practice your value range and your control. And the last technique is used most by realists. I'm calling it smudging. It's exactly the same as blending but instead of stopping at a certain point, you put down your pencil and you pick up a blending stick and you smudge all of those layers together. The object is to hide the marks that you made. You just want smooth transitions in value. For more art tips and tutorials, please consider saving the video and dropping me a like and comment.
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