how do u draw with only pencil with sketching

[DespairJunior]

Originally posted by Rich
You sir, are a fool. DJ is 11 years old, give him som F'in credit.



Again, you're being a smartass to an 11 year old. And on another note, DJ knows karate.

thanks rich,


andy already answered my qeustion. (thx) and its not a stupid qeustion. thats y i dont post here cuz most people will think that questions are stupid.

[Drewbacca]

I wasn't being an ass.

Most 3 year olds do know how to draw and thus he should kick their asses to make them teach him. Solid advice in my books.

[Despair]

WHooray. Great post DJ ! You will do some spelling work tonight, thats for sure. Learn how to spell the damn question !!!

The reason the question was so vague, that he couldnt formulate it right. Thanks Rich, for making his question a bit clear for smart ass people here

[Clash!]

Originally posted by Despair
Learn how to spell the damn question !!!

Thats it, I am calling Social Services.

[Hero]

You know the internet has gotten too anal and jaded when an 11-year old gets reamed by people twice his age. Congrats.

Even if he were 25, he still wanted some help from here. I feel honored that anyone would want my advice on anything, and don't know why anyone else wouldn't feel the same.

As to sketching...the fun is you get to be messy. When I was growing up, I had this awful notion that you had to draw everything the way it was supposed to look on the first try. That's not true though - when you work with pencil you can be messy, goof around, and do whatever you want. Once you get some shapes, figures, or what have you done, and you like what you have, darken the lines you want to 'keep' and then lightly go over the lines you want to get rid of with an eraser. The cool part is that a good vinyl/plastic eraser will erase light pencil marks without you having to push real hard on the paper. So then the 'sketch' marks go away, the darkened lines stay, and you have something that's polished and ready for inking, shading, coloring, etc.

I hope that helped.

[Captain Vegetable]

If it weren't for my horse...I wouldn't have spent that year in college!

[Jester]

Solid advice from Hero, I've also found that if you use non photographic blue lead (like architects use in blue prints) that you can draw over the good lines with regular graphite for a solid sketch.

[DespairJunior]

Originally posted by Hero
You know the internet has gotten too anal and jaded when an 11-year old gets reamed by people twice his age. Congrats.

Even if he were 25, he still wanted some help from here. I feel honored that anyone would want my advice on anything, and don't know why anyone else wouldn't feel the same.

As to sketching...the fun is you get to be messy. When I was growing up, I had this awful notion that you had to draw everything the way it was supposed to look on the first try. That's not true though - when you work with pencil you can be messy, goof around, and do whatever you want. Once you get some shapes, figures, or what have you done, and you like what you have, darken the lines you want to 'keep' and then lightly go over the lines you want to get rid of with an eraser. The cool part is that a good vinyl/plastic eraser will erase light pencil marks without you having to push real hard on the paper. So then the 'sketch' marks go away, the darkened lines stay, and you have something that's polished and ready for inking, shading, coloring, etc.

I hope that helped.

yeh it did thanks! i have one of those types of earasers too! thanks. thats what i need to know.

[bandit]

Start off by duplicating some photos. In other words try copying them without tracing. I draw better doing that than drawing from my head.

[thumbnail]http://ourworld.cs.com/Y2 Bandit/ebay/monkey.jpg[/thumbnail]
Monkey

[thumbnail]http://ourworld.cs.com/Y2 Bandit/ebay/stonecold.jpg[/thumbnail]
StoneCold Steve Austin

[thumbnail]http://ourworld.cs.com/Y2 Bandit/ebay/sixthsense.jpg[/thumbnail]
Sixth Sense with my picture in replacement of the kid

[Drewbacca]

Originally posted by bandit
Start off by duplicating some photos. In other words try copying them without tracing. I draw better doing that than drawing from my head.

[thumbnail]http://ourworld.cs.com/Y2 Bandit/ebay/monkey.jpg[/thumbnail]
Monkey

[thumbnail]http://ourworld.cs.com/Y2 Bandit/ebay/stonecold.jpg[/thumbnail]
StoneCold Steve Austin

[thumbnail]http://ourworld.cs.com/Y2 Bandit/ebay/sixthsense.jpg[/thumbnail]
Sixth Sense with my picture in replacement of the kid

Professional illustrators and artists do this all the time. It stems way back. No human has a photographic memory (well, it's rare anyway) and a picture of a sleight when you're drawing one is a very good idea (unless it's one of those round red ones). As I was saying, professional illustrators keep files of ads and photos and pictures in alphabetical order so when they need to draw an oak tree or something like that they thumb through it, take it out and get busy, etc.

People think they're 'cheating' or something but everybody does it. It's imperative when trying to mimic a lifelike thing (drapery, skin, fur, et cetera)

I believe the official term is referencing.