Getting Volume from Lines in Still Life Drawing

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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. Okay, in this section we are going to look at how you achieve volume which is on the paper achieving some kind of appearance of something being 3 dimensional. So therefore, you want to work with the highlights and the low lights. It is lighter here. It is darker here. In the crevices it is very dark. So rather than shading this is what you would do with pencil or charcoal. We are going to kind of scribble in the darker areas with lines. You can use all sorts of lines and this is where it becomes a little bit more playful. You can do lines like this, hatch work, you can do zigzag lines and you basically want to move around each form and also keep in mind that you are moving from object to object. You are not just sticking on one detail area. That is where beginners get messed up because they stick on one area and therefore, they get caught up in detail. So back to the creating some kind of dimensionality through line it is basically using the pen in lighter and darker areas to highlight or lowlight the areas needed and really just by looking at the object. Here it is dark. Not what you want to see but what is actually there.

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