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Art expert Ashley explains about tonal shading for sketching with still life.

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Art expert Ashley explains about tonal shading for sketching with still life.

Added: 6/10/08

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Applying Tonal Shading

[Music Playing] Hi, I’m Ashley and welcome to my art studio. Today, we’re going to be talking about pencil drawing for Still Life. So, the first thing we want to think about when we are starting a sketch is where your light is coming from, and in my case, I’m going to be sketching this tennis ball right here. And I have a window over here on my right and so my light will be coming from my window. And when you think about sketching your pencil and the graphite is on the paper is going to be your shadow. And the white of the paper is going to be your light source. First thing that we were going to remember when we’re sketching is we’re not rendering and so, you want to be really loose with your pencil. You also don’t want to be using too hard of the pencil. I know I was saying before that I really like to use a hard pencil but in this case, with sketching you do when you use is softer pencil because you want to be lighter you don’t want to be pressing as hard. And also, we’re going to be doing total sketching which is basically you want to think of shading and tones. You don’t want to think about any colors so a good tip is to actually squeak your eyes a little bit and look at your object. In this case I’m going to be working with my tennis ball here and so, you just squeak your eyes and everything kind of turns into great tones, and you can see it that this side of the toss ball is lighter and this side is darker. Just basically to sketch and used just loose motions and strokes and make the general shape of the object that you’re drawing. My light source is coming from my way so I want to use my pencils and start shading from the left because my shadow is on the left. And what we remember was sketching is we want to get use to using the pencil for your shading. So start with a harder pencil if you find that you need the area to be darker. Just pick up a softer pencil; I was using an HB pencil which is semi-hard pencil so this is a 2B pencil which is about little bit harder, and that makes a much darker stroke. And you don’t want to use your fingers to blend I know it’s a very easy way to blend but you want to get used to using your tools which is your pencil. So, you want to just use small strokes and slowly move up from let say 2B pencil to a 6B pencil and blend that way. And so that’s how you sketch thoroughly for Still Life.

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[Music Playing]

Hi, I’m Ashley and welcome to my art studio. Today, we’re going to be talking about pencil drawing for Still Life.

So, the first thing we want to think about when we are starting a sketch is where your light is coming from, and in my case, I’m going to be sketching this tennis ball right here. And I have a window over here on my right and so my light will be coming from my window. And when you think about sketching your pencil and the graphite is on the paper is going to be your shadow. And the white of the paper is going to be your light source.

First thing that we were going to remember when we’re sketching is we’re not rendering and so, you want to be really loose with your pencil. You also don’t want to be using too hard of the pencil. I know I was saying before that I really like to use a hard pencil but in this case, with sketching you do when you use is softer pencil because you want to be lighter you don’t want to be pressing as hard.

And also, we’re going to be doing total sketching which is basically you want to think of shading and tones. You don’t want to think about any colors so a good tip is to actually squeak your eyes a little bit and look at your object. In this case I’m going to be working with my tennis ball here and so, you just squeak your eyes and everything kind of turns into great tones, and you can see it that this side of the toss ball is lighter and this side is darker.

Just basically to sketch and used just loose motions and strokes and make the general shape of the object that you’re drawing. My light source is coming from my way so I want to use my pencils and start shading from the left because my shadow is on the left. And what we remember was sketching is we want to get use to using the pencil for your shading.

So start with a harder pencil if you find that you need the area to be darker. Just pick up a softer pencil; I was using an HB pencil which is semi-hard pencil so this is a 2B pencil which is about little bit harder, and that makes a much darker stroke.

And you don’t want to use your fingers to blend I know it’s a very easy way to blend but you want to get used to using your tools which is your pencil. So, you want to just use small strokes and slowly move up from let say 2B pencil to a 6B pencil and blend that way. And so that’s how you sketch thoroughly for Still Life.

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