COLORED PENCIL TECHNIQUE

 

5 Basic Colored Pencil Strokes

Stippling - Stippling involves placing lots of tiny dots on your paper. The dots can be close together, far apart, or anywhere in between! Practice stippling by drawing dots that are close together and also by drawing dots that have more distance between them. Also, notice the difference between dots made when the pencil is sharp vs. when the pencil point is dull. Stippling is a great way to add some interesting texture to a drawing.

Hatching - Hatching involves drawing a series of parallel lines. These lines all go in the same direction. The lines can be close together, far apart, or any variation in between. The pencil is lifted from the paper after each line and then placed down again to create a new line.

Cross-hatching - Cross-hatching involves drawing a series of parallel lines (hatching) and then drawing another series of parallel lines going in another direction on top of the first set of lines. This is a great way to create shading in a drawing. You can create some interesting textures through cross-hatching.

Back and forth stroke - The back and forth stroke is probably the most common of all the colored pencil techniques. This is probably how you drew with crayons as a kid! Basically, you just put your pencil on the paper and draw in a continuous back and forth motion, without lifting your pencil off of the paper. This is a good way to fill different areas of your drawing with a lot of solid color.

Scumbling - Scumbling is another technique you probably used as a kid without even knowing that it had a name! Scumbling involves making continuous circular marks on your paper, without lifting your pencil. This is another good way to fill in different areas with lots of color.

https://www.art-is-fun.com/frog-colored-pencil-tutorial

CROSS-HATCHING DRAWING TECHNIQUE TOTURIAL

 This video will teach you how to cross-hatch using pencil, pen and ink.

Pen and ink cross hatching

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8yw1ov3hjI&list=PLXhsu2w5zX6rDmioC4A3ZEp5E8Bng_zfn&index=1

How to draw heads from any angle

 

Practice Drawing Your Favorite Characters with These Techniques!

For this next one we will stick to the Batman theme and draw Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent without his glasses. They are basically the same facial type.

Hopefully you are getting the hang of this by now but what if you are not? What else will help you master this maze of possibilities?

Drawing Various Head Shapes

In the examples above you can see some of the primary shapes at work within the character designs. There are all sorts of shapes and variations that you can introduce.

So play around with this technique and don’t be afraid to exaggerate the characters features. It is a great way to caricature and add more narrative to your character designs.

How to draw hairstyles

Let’s use the Same Techniques for Drawing Short Wavy Hair

 In today’s tutorial you will learn how to draw hair a few different ways. I will show you some patterns to look for that make drawing hair much easier to accomplish.

Notice in this next example that the same step by step approach will work on this shorter male hair style.  Probably the biggest differences that I see when drawing this hair style is that the hair volume is more angular.

How to Draw Black Curly Hair

Pinterest is great for looking up cool hair styles by the way!

Drawing a Short Hair Style on a Black Male Character

Let’s start with the easy one.  Short curly hair can be simplified even further than the previous examples.  We will still use the same step by step approach but then as we get to the inking stage we can use a bit of stipple shading.

Notice in the example below that I have drawn a perimeter shape of the hair but then filled most of it in.  This allows me to just focus on the light source side and render tiny curls over and over. 

Just make sure to space them out as you reach the lighter side of the hair.  This also works with bounced light but on this drawing I am only using a single light source.