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Do you know, why we like some of the pencil drawings very much? It is because, in those pencil drawings, the artists have drawn the lines like the musicians play the musical notes.
The notes of music would be unpleasant, if not played with care and control; and it fails to impress the audience. The same is the case with line drawing and shading in the art of pencil drawing. Look at the shading work done in this pencil drawing. At first sight, this artwork looks like preparatory work for a watercolour painting or an oil painting. But the precision and the artistic prowess applied by the artist have made it an individually full-fledged artwork.
This kind of shading can be done
by varying the hand pressure applied to the pencil while doing the shading work.
By doing so, you can exploit the full potential of the medium of graphite
pencil.
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| Old Man and the Stairs Originally uploaded by Evil Phantasia |
While drawing light or dark lines with the sharp tip of your pencil,
you vary the weight of the line. Such shading creates a lively and conceivable
effect in the Viewers' eyes. Such work creates the feel of the volume in
the drawing. Once the master artist Henri Matisse said about drawing that:
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. Yes, the drawing is an idea in your mind. You are
to accomplish it by drawing lines, deciding the focal point, and putting
the precise shading work on your drawing paper. Then and there you can
actualise your idea. Though the preparatory pencil drawing is considered
necessary as a preliminary drawing to an oil painting or a watercolour
painting, some of the pencil drawings are final artwork in themselves.
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| Open Window, originally uploaded bygregorybeckerdrawings |
Drawing Windows and
Houses
Once you have decided
to have a pencil and paper in your hand, the next thought would be about choosing
the subject matter. For this aspect, the selection of the subject there are endless opportunities.
Look at your table,
the design of the table cloth or the ticking clock stowed on a window: these
can be your handy objects to draw in the first phase.
Now have a look at the pencil drawing given here. See how the artist has used the masterly skill of the art of pencil drawing. Look how the precise shading infused the feel of light coming through the window. Recreating the flutter of the bird and the curtains is the exceptional ability of the artist. You can draw big buildings or long bridges if you have a fondness for the outdoors.
All you need to keep in mind is that you are to give proper consideration to the architecture and the perspective of the object you are going to draw or paint. Then grab a pencil, adjust your drawing paper, and start drawing it in its reality.
Look at the drawing titled Open Widow. While drawing such a
lighting-and-shading oriented landscape with a pencil, an artist must make sure that the falling of the light, the presence of darker
areas and the lighted spaces are looking quite as per the law of nature!
Here the light is coming from the open window thus it would naturally fall
at a distance of two or three feet from the base of the wall. This may differ
as per the time of the day and the position of the sun you want to show in your
pencil drawing.
About the wonderful instrument called a pencil; if we wish to trace out the
point in the time since the pencil is used by artists, we have to agree
upon one fact it is used for a long and is a very ancient medium of
drawing.
The pencil drawing can create wonderful drawings if the subject painted is
the landscape. While drawing the landscape, the artist's primary focus is
natural scenery. We can go outside and find out a scene we like most. For that,
we will have to pack our rucksack, ride our bike and run straight to the river
bank or a foothill of a mountain. All you need would be a set of artists-grade pencils, a pair of good-quality erasers, and a bunch of not-so-costly drawing
paper.
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Drawing Landscapes:
Huts and Fences: Look at the
pencil drawing that is given here. It is a full-fledged artwork in
itself. This kind of shading can be done by lofting the pencil a bit or
pressing it a little bit harder; by doing so you can exploit the advantages of
the medium of graphite pencil.
You know, if you
want to learn drawing, take it for granted that first, you will have to observe
things keenly. To see things in their proper perspective: is the primary key in pencil drawing. Sometimes we have to see the things
which were beyond our eyes: the perception of things.
Now a day many
artists devote their full-time efforts to working with pencils only. And their
endeavours pay excellent results and their outputs become the treasure of the
art world.
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