So as you all know, one person starts doing art by holding a pencil or scribbling randomly on walls, papers etc. as in, in most cases one's art journey begins with drawing or sketching...You develop skills with time and retain to the basic things taught to you like shading or hatching, but a time come when you need a lot of practice in mastering these skills, therefore, in order to master these basic skills, I'll be showing/ explaining few easy yet effective methods to enhance your drawing/sketching skills. I hope you enjoy this tutorial!

Drawing

We know that drawing is the most common forms of art with painting following it, and also that drawing/ sketching something with pen or pencil requires the given elements to enhance the viewers' visual experience

Therefore, in order to learn these simple yet effective techniques, I'll show you creative activities that will make it easier for you to understand and adopt these elements in your drawings/ sketches. So, are you ready with your graphite pencils???

SO HERE WE GO !

1) Hatching

Hatching involves usage of a multitude of lines to make a shade-like appeal to the drawing. These lines are more or less parallel and equidistant from each other and hence they enhance the uniformity of your artwork. The activity given below will help you to increase your speed and efficiency of hatching:

Step 1)Make a long triangular box
Step 2)Highlight the borders with a permanent marker and mark the divisions as given in the diagrams below
Step 3)If you have problems in detailed hatching, start from the left and end hatching to the right
Step 4)If you have problems to hatch in wider areas, then start from the right and end up in the left
Step 5)This exercise will help you to develop a greater sense of understanding the hatching patterns. (you can try cross-hatching also with the same process)

 
 

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2) Shading

Shading involves uses of dark shades in your artwork  so as to induce a sense of vibrancy to your subject. Shading adds shadows to your artwork, which is an essential element for realistic artwork as there shading various parts of the subject will often make your subject standout! Therefore, to practice shading, I'll show you the following activity-

Step 1)Make a long rectangular box
Step 2)Highlight the borders with a permanent marker and mark the divisions as given in the diagrams below
Step 3) Start by using your suitable graphite pencil from the box named 'black' and continue till you reach the top-most box.
Step 4) Start by pressing the pencil a bit hard on the surface of the paper to make the shade appear darker.
Step 5) Follow up by reducing the pressure as you move up!

 

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3) Grid making

Grid making involves using a rectangular box as a whole and dividing it into small grids. You can draw in these grids so as to improve your detailing skills. It will also help you attain a stronghold on the pencil you use! Therefore, to improve your overall skills with a limited amount of space for detailing, I'll show you how this activity works ;

Step 1)Make a long rectangular box
Step 2)Highlight the borders with a permanent marker and mark the divisions as given in the diagrams below
Step 3) Start by using your suitable graphite pencil for drawing on various boxes.

 

 
  

 

So here we come to the end of this article and I hope you all liked it!

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For more info and questions, you are free to note me up! You may also ask in the comments if you have any queries!   
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A word Of Thanks!

I thank all of you, my friends, and my  past art teachers at school for making me realize the potential of graphite pencils and drawing and  helping me out since I was a small child and being the cause for bringing up this article! If you hadn't been there, this article wouldn't have been a successful one! KEEP BEING AWESOME!
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Tutorial written by Tudalia-Hex for projecteducate's Be a Guiding Light- Tutorial Making contest
All the images of drawing/ sketching processes were presented to you by Tudalia-Hex 

Thank You