not done adding them..but i will finish...i can't stand posting this way..arrrgh..ok the pencil is the only medium i feel i have pretty much mastered and it took me 40 years to do that sigh
first i use a medium lead mechanical pencil and an 03 rapidograph for finishing work in tight places..
the little girl and the dog is just a quick think it out of something i am trying to put together out of my head..the lines only to give form to my thought, as quicky as possible...in no way a sketch i would consider anything at all but a roadmap for future work. That is the way for almost all of my ruffs..like the chazhound pcks pieces i posted in my gallery. I draw the same way for gesture sketches..(those that you have only a few seconds to catch the form before it changes) quick lines not careful lines
the hand was drawn from a fireman that sat in front of me in my emt class..(i was bored) it has lots of errors in it and a lot i would correct if i drew it again but the cross hatching does show another way of shading
the silly basset only shows a variety of way to use line to create surface and shadow
the golden is a nitty gritty get down and do it right and it's hard..and it takes forever but worth the results..
finally the fluffy dogs is another way of showing shadow by texture and variety of line.
I don't know how else to explain but to show the different ways i do it.
My old boss always said "squint your eyes" to help you see the shadow and seperate from the lighter areas..a lot of mistakes people make it portraits especially human is when they hardline what the :think they know is there" and not what is really present. the only part of the human face that should ever be completely dark is the pupil of the eye and the crease between the lips..learning that improved my work greatly.
I always use a mars white plastic eraser (the same thing that comes in click erasers) because they do not ruin the "integrity of the surface" on your paper..i haven't found anything else that doesn't do damage and make going over again "different" then the rest of the drawing..prime example is in a piece i will show you later..no matter how carefully i tried to lightly fix it it came out too dark. That is about it in a nutshell..i will go post the rest of the images i wrote about..cant tell which one is which sigh.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f240/smkie/handsketchexampleofquickcrosshatchi.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f240/smkie/goldenthiscopy.jpg
i have some more different ways to approach and will come back and write later tonight..if i dont get my hinny in that paint room the night wiill get away from me...