So it's a good thought to practice these primary drawing methods regularly. Especially as you're starting to learn to draw, much practice of these primary methods will quicken your drawing success.
Learn How to Draw Hatchings and Cross-Hatchings
Hatching implies to draw a lot parallel running lines close together. Other than in normal shadings the lines are not allowed to touch one another! Although there's still white space 'tween the lines they build an region apparently shaded densely.
Cross-hatching goes one step further. When you're doing cross-hatching you overlay one set of hatchings with another set rectangular to the first one. Thus cross hatchings get a lot denser and solider than (single) hatchings.
Drawing hatchings requires precision. So practicing hatchings is as well a outstanding opportunity to train your draftsmanship precision. When starting begin to fill up empty sheets of paper with hatchings and cross-hatchings not having a concrete depicted object in your eye.
When you've acquired a certain level of proficiency, you ought to try first easy subjects. Pick out such scenes that contain enough shadow. Seek to depict this scenery not using outlines. Instead rely completely on translating the darknesses and dark areas into hatchings. Let the hatchings' direction play along the subjects you're depicting. For drawing blacker areas and darknesses lay the lines of your hatching closer together or use cross hatching.
Learn to Draw Shadings
To draw shadings is more common than hatching. It is more intuitive and needs lower experience. When drawing shadings you merely fill up areas of your drawing with your pencil. By varying your pencil's softness, the force you apply and the number of shading layers you create you manage the tones you create.
Similar as when creating hatchings you draw shadings by drawing lots of lines. This time you draw them so close to each other they intersection and blend completely. Shadings made out of lines still have a direction (though not as strong as in hatchings). So pay attention to adjust your shadings' direction with the forms of the subjects you're depicting. To get the shading more dense you have to apply the same techniques as when creating cross hatching.
A different way for drawing shadings requires to draw countless really little circles close together so they merge and blend. Shadings made this way are highly even and lack a visible direction. The advantage: you won't have to keep an eye on the shading's hidden direction.
Ideally you begin practicing shadings instantly. Choose some sheets of paper, outline some simple figures like triangles and begin to fill them with shadings. Seek to get them as smooth as possible and use the different techniques explained before.
Again once you have reached enough experience, try to begin using the techniques learned on real-world subjects.
Use Different angles and perspective types
In addition to creating hatchings and shadings the most important skill you have to know while beginning to learn drawing, is a sound understanding of perspective.
There are some rules that may help you in building perspectively sound drafts. But first it's necessary you practice your eye to acknowledge basic forms and structures.
Pick out easy sceneries mostly consisting of straight lines and not too much curves. And then draw those scenes by drawing only the silhouette. This way you can focus on understanding dimensions and perspective. But don't stop here, repeat this exercise by drawing exactly the same scenery again and again from different angles.
You will see with every repetition you'll apprehend the subject better and your ability to understand and depict the proportions of any subject will increase greatly.
What Next?
This trio of practices are the most crucial while studying to draw. There are more basic methods and techniques you could and should train. You could improve your drawing skills by yourself - simply get and draw life sceneries. Start with easy ones and increase the degree of difficulty as you make progress. Additionally you could learn drawing using exercises designed and tested to ensure ideal advancements for your drawing skills.
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