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Technique
Study: Checkered black and white floor
04.06.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsTrying to get a natural white color.
Ever since I started drawing I’ve been thinking about how I could draw white surfaces. The problem being that I don’t have white pencils in my box and I want the surface to look natural white instead of paper white.
I’m not sure whether there is a difference between the [...] -
Technique
Playing with hatching techniques
Trying to influence the darkness of the color with different hatching techniques.
One of my biggest problems in drawing with color pencil has been my inability to control the darkness of a color.
For this practice drawing I decided to see what I could do to get a color darker or lighter.
I thought that both the number [...] -
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How to learn to (cross) hatch
Rethinking my method of learning how to (cross) hatch.
This morning I remembered reading a site about improving your handwriting. The site advised to go back to basics and start over with practicing to draw a hundred A’s, a hundred B’s etc. just like the way you did it in school when you first where taught [...] -
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Study: From boxes to beds
Figuring out what was wrong with my earlier boxes and finding out how to use the technique to create nice drawings.
I didn’t even have to read. Just flipping the page and looking at a few pictures was enough to realize why the boxes I’ve been drawing the last few weeks where so distorted.
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Like water color paint
Trying out a new approach to drawing with color pencil.
Ever since I started, I thought about drawing with color pencils as though it was a cross between Rembrandt and the way Bob Ross painted.
I thought that to get a nice picture I would have to cover the paper with a thick layer of pigment just [...] -
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Drawing: Green chair
12.09.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFinding that technique is as important as knowing how to look.
The last few weeks I’ve been drawing assignment out of the book “Drawing with the right side of your brain”.
Although I tried to draw what I saw I wasn’t satisfied with my last drawing of my chair. It felt like something was wrong but I [...] -
Technique
Putting it all together (Drawing: Tree and clouds)
Taking the different elements I’ve tested and putting it into one drawing.
I must admit that I’ve put this drawing of for a bit.
Although I’m almost certain that I won’t fail. I’ve thought about it and tested the different bits of this drawing. But this is the first time that I’ll be putting a drawing like [...] -
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Sanding pencils (study: Tree 8)
Trying out a new method to sharpen my pencils.
I’ve been reading that some people use a piece of sanding paper to sharpen their pencils. I never saw the point in that (if you pardon the pun). But now I’ve started drawing with the side of the pencil it make all the more sense. With sandpaper [...] -
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Study: Sea 5
Finding tree colors.
I’ve been experimenting with a technique that isn’t completely new but I haven’t used it very much. A few months ago I tried this technique for a while. But I didn’t know what to do with it, so I forgot all about it.
According to my dictionary this should be called an underhanded pencil [...] -
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Finding my colors (Study: Mixing colors)
Mixing colors
After making my first drawing with my new pencil box I’m a bit at a loss.
Until now I would look into my (old) 72 set pencil box and chose colors that best fit the drawing I wanted to make. But now I can make a few hondred colors and I don’t even know what they [...]
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