Shading (pencil drawing)

[ACDC1551]

I have a hard time shading
and every time ive tried hatching techniques it flat out sux
Is there anything anyone can show/tell me that will help me with it?  

[Laila Izuka]

If you post a sample, it might help us understand what is is that you need help with 3nodding  

[ACDC1551]

Laila Izuka

If you post a sample, it might help us understand what is is that you need help with 3nodding

ok well i dont know if i can but i will try  

[ACDC1551]

ACDC1551

Laila Izuka

If you post a sample, it might help us understand what is is that you need help with 3nodding

ok well i dont know if i can but i will try

im just not very good with darkining and littining thing see it like all the same and not very good see  

[Tiara_Estella]

It seems more like you color it all quickly o-o

An easy way to practice how hard/soft to press to to take a blank page and shade random areas.
In some pressure more than others but try so that none of them are the same shade.  

[Sazarac]

Why don't you try lightly erasing what you want highlighted. Give it a try.  

[apiyo]

Your hatching just looks like scribbled. You don't have to be so a**l that you use a straight edge but you should put some method into it. http://www.methart.com/tutorials/hatching1.jpg

Here is a good example of hatching. There are discernable lines.  

[Otome Picasso]

Try imagining where your lightsource is coming from, and as others have said before, vary the pressure you put on the pencil (or if cross-hatch shading, how many times you hatch over a certain area)

Here's an example of my cross hatching technique, which might help a bit more than me trying to explain.
http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/p1casso123/IMG_2796.jpg

And for a shading example in pencil.
http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/p1casso123/IMG_2790.jpg

And for some extreme shading:
http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/p1casso123/IMG_2706.jpg

If you have anymore questions about shading, message me. ^-^
Hope it helps  

[Podium]

Also, If you hold the pencil slanted a little it helps you not push so hard.  

[clocktock]

Okay. My best advise, when it comes to pencil shading, is delivered in the form of a question: what kind of paper are you using, and why?

Certain effects are, in my experience, paper-dependant. It's all well and good to crosshatch on your printer paper, but unless you are some sort of godly pencil machine, anything you block in will not look smooth! Sometimes you want this effect, but I am going with the assumption that the effect you want is not the effect you are getting.

It may seem like a weird suggestion, but this marker paper is what I do most of my pencil work on. This s**t is SMOOTH. If I want tooth, I use varying types of bristol instead, I won't go into detail on that because it's pretty intuitive how the tooth effects the shading.


smooooooth.


Anyway, the deal with that marker paper. It's really easy to get uniform shade on it, and you can put A LOT of graphite down on the paper and still erase it off. A good thing to do with pencil shading: load your paper up with as much graphite as it'll take (know your paper!), and then lift hilights back off with your eraser. Rinse/repeat to get the desired effect.  

[ACDC1551]

clocktock

Okay. My best advise, when it comes to pencil shading, is delivered in the form of a question: what kind of paper are you using, and why?

Certain effects are, in my experience, paper-dependant. It's all well and good to crosshatch on your printer paper, but unless you are some sort of godly pencil machine, anything you block in will not look smooth! Sometimes you want this effect, but I am going with the assumption that the effect you want is not the effect you are getting.

It may seem like a weird suggestion, but this marker paper is what I do most of my pencil work on. This s**t is SMOOTH. If I want tooth, I use varying types of bristol instead, I won't go into detail on that because it's pretty intuitive how the tooth effects the shading.


smooooooth.

Anyway, the deal with that marker paper. It's really easy to get uniform shade on it, and you can put A LOT of graphite down on the paper and still erase it off. A good thing to do with pencil shading: load your paper up with as much graphite as it'll take (know your paper!), and then lift hilights back off with your eraser. Rinse/repeat to get the desired effect.

thnx biggrin