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This tutorial has three sections:

Enriching Your Life with Drawing

Equipment and Paper Required

Preparing Your Pencils

Enriching Your Life with DrawingIm assuming you have a little experience, a lot of desire and probably at least a few bad

habits! I believe its possible to split the act of creating art into two:

The technical ability to draw line and tone, and the manual dexterity required.

The mental ability to understand what you are creating by drawing from your

imagination and mental store of images.

The second is greatly improved by learning the first which is fortunate, because the

second is usually the first we strive for! Without that desire to recreate an experience, or to

allow others to view our own experiences, we have no need of the technical know-how.

As you learn to draw, building up your arsenal of techniques, youll find yourself looking

ever deeper into the world around you. Where you once saw a tree as merely a

recognizable organic object, youll begin to wonder how you might draw it.

For the first time youll notice how the foliage forms rounded masses; that each mass is

three-dimensional with bright and shaded sides, and casts a shadow on the masses below

it; how the light appears through gaps, throwing the internal structure of branches into

silhouette.

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Welcome to Drawingfrom Line to Life

Exploring the process of creating art, choosingdrawing supplies, and preparing yourpencils for drawing

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8.7

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 62.2

Drawspace Curriculum 1.3.R1 - 6 Pages and 7 Illustrations


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In brief: youll learn to see instead of look. And over time that newly acquired information

will be stored away waiting the day you need to draw on it for your landscape study.

Persevere you will learn to experience the world as you have never experienced it before.

Its been my experience that the technical skills have to be learned first, and that takes

practice. But that practice will pay dividends, as your hand and eye co-ordination willgradually improve until you are finally able to draw without having to think about technique

at all. Youll finally reach the stage where your thoughts will travel down your arm, into your

hand, and through your pencil onto paper.

Practice is essential. Regular practice is even better. If you dont already draw regularly, I

suggest you set aside a time, daily or weekly, that is your time. Explain to your family and

friends that you need isolation in order to concentrate.

You may have heard of artists entering another state? Its true and wonderful! The

world ceases to exist, time stops, hearing shuts down, peace reigns. Think of it as super

concentration and youll understand why you wont want to be disturbed.

You should allow four to six hours a week during this course, and it doesnt really matter if

thats an hour an evening or all day Sunday although if you decide on a single hour youll

quickly find it becoming two hours without you realizing it!




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Many years ago, here in the UK, I

was an Amway distributor.

That business taught me a lot

about self-discipline, but it also

taught me one very importantlesson.

It showed me where the off button

was on my TV. To this day I watch

very little TV and prefer to live my

own life instead of living it through

the fictional lives of others. As I

write its 11:13 p.m. I could be

watching Big Brother. No contest!

You can and should make time,because this and the other lessons

here at Drawspace have the

potential to change and enrich your

life. So lets begin

Equipment and Paper

Required

You will need the following for thelessons in this topic:

4B, 2B, HB, 2H and 4H pencils (H = hard; HB = neutral; B = black). Any make will do

but Staedtler, in my opinion, contain the least impurities and the best consistency.

Vinyl art eraser

Kneaded eraser or, if possible, Blu-Tack

Staedtler, Pentel, Alvin, or similar click eraser (with cylindrical vinyl core)

Pencil sharpener Craft knife, scalpel or safety razor blade (not essential)

Toilet tissue and paper kitchen towels

Paper about A4 or letter-size. Almost any medium to heavy weight paper will do but

it will assist you if the texture is not pronounced. Watercolour paper is about as heavily

textured as you might wish to use. Personally I use Mellotex a very smooth white

card.

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Preparing Your Pencils

You will need, as I mentioned, five grades of pencil, from the softest 4B grade through 2B,

HB, and 2H to the hardest 4H grade. Why those grades?

Well, every grade is perfectly capable of overlapping the tones achievable by those either

side of it. So, a lightly applied HB can reproduce the darker tones of its neighbouring Hgrade, and heavily applied 2H will supply the remaining lighter tones of H. In reality I use

2B, HB and 2H extensively. Harder grades, such as 6H are available to me, but I reserve

these for specialised tasks.

Why dont I suggest you use 6B or even 9B? I dont personally use grades softer than

2B, because they are too coarse. Graphite pencils obtain their different grades (degree of

hardness) by being mixed with clay the more clay, the harder the grade and the lighter the

achievable tones.

For example, 6B has a far greater graphite content than 6H, which contains much more

clay. This means 6H has a very fine composition but 6B possesses large grains of graphite too large for my purposes. 6B and softer grades blunt easily, crumble under pressure,

and usually fail to fill the tooth of the paper the holes and troughs in the texture of your

paper that hold the graphite in place. There are ways to fix this but well cover that later.

So, you have your 4B, 2B, HB, 2H and 4H pencils. Well sharpened? To a good conical

point? Excellent! Except that if you begin drawing with that point it will quickly blunt and

may even snap.

Figure 4

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Heres the solution:

1. Take a pencil lets start with your middle-of-the-range

HB and a scrap of drawing paper. Hold your pencilvertically and place its point on the paper.

2. Rotate your pencil in your fingers until the writing or HB

grade mark comes into view.

3. Then lower the pencil until its at your normal handwriting

angle.

4. Now begin to rub the point on the paper. Youre

attempting to wear a flat face to make a chisel point

which Ive exaggerated in Figure 4.

If you always pick up and hold your pencils with the

writing visible, youll know exactly where the flat face

on the point is. I use the pocket clip on my clutch

pencils in the same manner.

Do the same to your other points too the

advantages are worth the effort.




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You now have a point that will

Not snap (unless you apply really

excessive force)

Allow you to apply flat tone without a

hint of hard edge.

Permit the drawing of fine, sharp lines

without constant re-sharpening.

and all this without having to let go of

your pencil. A simple rotation is all thats

needed to switch from the flat face to the

sharp edge.

Happy drawing!

Cheers.



Drawing from Line to Life

by Mike Sibley

Foreword by renowned artist David Shepherd

Over 280 pages of pencil drawing tips, tutorials,

demonstrations and much more... More than 625 illustrations

Tools, techniques, methods

Step-by-step instructions

For the Novice and Advanced student

From pure line drawing through to near-reality

Based on Mikes experience of over 30 years as a

professional artist and graphite pencil specialist.

www.SibleyFineArt.com/pencil-drawing-book.htm

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If youre a graphite artist or an artist who wants to learn more about how to construct a drawing, a

book like this is a jewel. This is the book I have been waiting for... a book where a life-long artist

performs a magical brain-dump into a format where you can reference it your whole life. So, if you

were on the fence about this book think about it this way: this book can help you perfect your craft

for a lifetime and amounts to a night out to a restaurant and a few drinks. Now ask yourself, which is

going to stay with you after you wake up the next day?

>Rich Adams

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