This video
is about Drawing Tools and Techniques. I will show you some tools traditional
and digital like copic markers, brush pitt pens, graphite pencil, charcoal and
polychromos.
I am not
necessarily promote any of the tools but instead I will try to give you some
pros and cons for each.
Drawing:
what is it actually? Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various
drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium with graphite, ink or
charcoal and so on. A drawing instrument releases small amount of material onto
a surface, leaving a visible mark….
Drawing is
not painting. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a solid surface (support base).
The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but aA common example of mixing both might be
drawing outlines and adding the color later on.
Tools
There is a
wide range of tools for us available like pencils, pens, charcoal, brush pens,
ink and markers. Other tools will be erasers and different types of papers,
cartboard and other surfaces to draw on which can make a significant
difference.
More tools
that I use can be lineal, circle templates, a compass, triangle and a mirror to
check your drawing.
The first
tool we are gonna look at is the pencil
One of the
major differences in the applied material is contrast. So what you can see here
is with graphite it is hard to create black. Therefore we can erase it. Pencils
usually are available in different widths and
different values for darkness and
softness. There is graphite grading scales actually two for the graphite inside
the pencil. I recommend you go to your local art supplier and try different
pencils before you buy one.
Link to
description: http://pencils.com/hb-graphite-grading-scale/
Next tool
is the copic marker which is presented here in cool gray and as you can see You
can create black with it. You can only work from light to dark with them and
creating gradients can be a little bit tricky. However with some practice it
will work. This is what I started using after using pencil only… When you use
them a lot you they will go empty quickly but you can refill them.
Next slide
shows you what you can do with charcoal and polychromos pencils in comparison
with copic and graphite pencil. Polychromos pencils have some colored pigment
and some oil in it. You can use a copic blender to smudge around with them…
Polychromos and charcoal can achieve darker values than graphite. I like
charcoal but that is just personal preference. There are different types of
charcoal pencils as well. You can try them out at you well sorted art supply
store. I will provide links to what tools I have on my website….
Alright
this does not belong to drawing but there are still artists out there in the
field of concept art that use Gouache. I did not really work with it just tried
it out at my sisters for one afternoon. But from what I know it is like a mix
of oil paint and aquarelle and combines the benfits of those too.
Next is
digital tools.
First tool
ist the Cintiq. I have an older one 21 UX and I bought that instead of a 22HD
after getting seing it being recommended on the conceptart.org forums by almost
anyone and here is why.
Pros of the
old one
Brighter.
No weird
anti glare coat which makes it not look so pixelated well only if it is actual
pixels.
More colors.
Different
format (which I think is better).
Cons
Les
resolution
I assume
the distance between surface and actual screen is longer so you need to take
recalibrate mor often or sit always in the same position…
There are
others bigger and smaller this is just 2 examples.
The Intuos
in this case 3 is a good old friend of mine and I have the old version which I
just dug out for this photo and people who have a tablet can see that this is
not the original plastic sheet on where I draw on. After mine got broken
because I painted it to death I saw that the good Wacom does not sell the
sheets anymore. So what I did now was I went to some hardware store and got me
some plastic sheet and glue it onto my tablet… and it feels much better than
the original. All it does is it does not hold for 6 years but 6 months and then
you have to apply a new one which costs 1 euro instead of 50. So I am fairly
happy with it. It’s called poly bi carbonate or something…
I also have
an Intuos pro here which I never opened because I don’t need it. I did use one at
work and I know it uses the pen tips up very quickly so there you need to rebuy
that more often….
Also for
the Cintiq you need to pay attention to the tips to not create scratches on the
display too quickly.
Then there
are the tablets and Convertables like my Surface Pro 3. I got me the SP3 Pro
cause Youtube told me it is cool to work with in Photoshop but actually it
isn’t . The technology behind the pen is not Wacom and not as good I say. Also
the performance is not as good as expected. For doing some design sketches and
giving presentations on the go it works perfectly fine but for the actual
production work it does not have the perdormance by far that I was hoping for.
There seem to be a number of people saying they use it for work and stopped
using anything else but for my High quality multilayered PSD files I cannot
recommend it.
Then there
are a bunch of problems with support from Microsoft and Windows 10… but I don’t
wann go more into detail. There are
other tools like the Wacom companion or the iPad Pro which you can use with a
stylus.
The next video is about techniques.
If you want links to the tools go to my educational resources page.
http://danielthiele.blogspot.de/p/resources.html
