Subtractive drawing: April 13-17
What you need
- a traditional pencil
- a good eraser
- paper towel or kleenex
- a still life object
Subtractive drawing is an excellent way to create a drawing with wonderful tones and values. it also challenges you to really think about those values and gets you away from drawing dark lines around everything and just "coloring in".
This technique also works really well with charcoal. If you have charcoal at home, give it a try.
This technique also works really well with charcoal. If you have charcoal at home, give it a try.
what you do
Use the side of a pencil to tone your paper so that the page is covered in graphite.Then take paper towel and smooth it out. This gives you a nice grey tone to start with. Use the pencil start shading darker values and the eraser to pull out the whites and lighter greys. This technique takes some practice. You may have to try it a couple of times. The first video below shows the basic technique but the example of the cube is much too simplistic for you. Look at the next video to see a more complex drawing. Try a portrait if you are brave.
good subjects
- animals or people
- bottles or glasses
- shoes or boots
- trees
- Fruits or vegetables