Starting a Still Life Drawing with a Light Touch

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Hi this is Julia Karch for Expert Village.com. In this video series we will be talking about still life drawing for beginners. In this section we are going to demonstrate the benefits of working lightly with your pen or if you are using charcoal or pencil or whatever. The habit of most beginners is to work in a heavy line like this. Therefore, you are stuck with whatever you put there. Whether it is pencil you can still erase it but it is easier to work lightly and sketch out an idea of what you see. As I’ve said, you can build upon that but really the mistake that most beginners have is going in really, drawing an outline and going in dark where they also see that it is shaded. So a better example is to do a sketch of in a very soft way what you see and then even for the darker parts, building on that. With pen you are committed to the line and so you cannot erase it. Even with the shading on the bottom to give it some sense of gravity you can even go light there and go back to it. So with this also, dark lines indicate when something is closer up. Lighter lines indicate when something is further away. So if you want something to appear closer up you go darker. If you want an indication of something you work lighter. It is a habit that people have to break working with too heavy of a line.

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