Creative Shading - Learn Six Shading Techniques for Better Drawing Skills

Learn Six Shading Techniques for Better Drawing Skills

Is "shading" a word that freaks you out? Are you stuck with it and can't progress in your art? You still don't get how it works? Where to put lines, crossing lines, can you even use your finger to smudge the graphite?

Don't worry!

In this class, you will learn the most well known shading techniques - the Blending (Tonal) Shading, Hatching, Cross-Hatching, Smudging, Stippling and Scribbling!

We are going to go through all of them in a general overview, then also in detail so that you can see these techniques in action! We are going to shade 6 spheres with all these techniques, then at the end, we will choose one and apply it to a subject of your choice! 

The class is perfect for beginners (very beginners are recommended to take the "Drawing Masterclass - The Beginner Level Skills).

The class is focused on pencil shading, but we will also discuss shading with ink.

In this class you will learn:

- which pencils are appropriate for which shading

- how to control your pencil  - including pressure control, angles, rhythm, making marks

- how to layer graphite

- how to shade with graphite as a medium

- how to shade with lines and marks

- what is value and how to create change in it

- how to do blending (tonal) shading

- how to shade with hatching, cross-hatching, 3 layered and 4 layered hatching, contour hatching and contour cross hatching

- how to work with graphite as a medium in shading with smudging

- to create value change with controlling mark frequency in stippling

- to shade with freedom in scribbling

- to shade with fun:)

So, what are you waiting for? Jump right in to the class!

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