Drawing Lesson On Using Line To Create Texture In A Drawing.

Texture can add a lot of interest to a picture as well as depth and value. This lesson deals specifically with a pen drawing but the concepts will translate in other mediums such as pencil, and pastel.

A rural cottage was used in the illustration but still-life or other theme works as well. The advantage of the landscape is the variety of textures such as rock, tree bark, grass leaves, etc. It helps to work off of a photo or to go outside where there is a lot of natural texture to discover.

There are different catalogs of lines but each artist must find his own preference and master the ones that work best for them.

Illustration for using line for texture in a drawing.Art lesson

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WARM-UP
On a practice paper experiment with different lines such as small scribbles, rolling lines, wavy lines, straight dashes, curved dashes, and dashes where the pressure goes from firm to light.

BEGINNING OF PROJECT
This is not going to be a masterpiece, the goal is to learn how lines can create texture.
Quickly layout the picture, in the illustration a rural cottage was drawn lightly with minimal detail so that the texture can be used to fill in the body of the drawing.

TAKE YOUR TIME!!!!

FACING WALL ON RIGHT: The lines used for the wall facing the viewer appears to be constructed with flat flagstones. So the texture is mostly short horizontal lines. These lines are also thinner and lighter so use less pressure.

WALL ON THE LEFT: Looks to be another flagstone wall but different. Use horizontal dashes.

BUSH IN FOREGROUND: The texture is like a wiggly line that is wider at the base and narrower to a point at the end.

FOREGROUND WALLS: These look like larger stones, the texture is made of squares or rectangles.

DISTANT WALLS. Distance reduces detail, the wall has a texture of dashes.

FOREGROUND BUSH: The lines go in swirly patterns. The line goes around and over itself.

DISTANT BUSH AND TREES. The lines are open scribbles with as little pattern as possible.

ROOF: Light lines, shaped like the letter L or number 7.

Dashes and dots were used in various places in the illustration as well.

(c) Adron Dozat
1/11/15

How to Draw the Blind Beggar an Exercise For The Young Artist

How To Draw the Blind Beggar

This is a fun picture to draw. It is inspired by the blind man in the Bible who was healed by a miracle.  If you have problems drawing eyes, this is for you; since he is blind, you draw a bandage over his eyes. And if you mess up on something, everyone is looking at the bandage and the beggar's sign around his neck so they won't notice.

Start with the basic shape of the face. Place the face a little high on the paper since you want to leave room for the tunic and the placard that he wears around his neck to beg. I like to use a circle and add a jaw like a large letter "U".  I lightly draw some lines to be a reference to keep the face balanced and in proportion.  One line up and down for the center of the face and one across, it almost turns the face into an "+," halfway below that draw another line for the placement of the nose and halfway again below that draw a line for the mouth. Now put down your pencil and look at it and ask yourself if it needs any changes, now is the time. If everything looks in about the right place, start the larger details. The nose is large on this guy, started with a circle and two smaller ones on each side. Then shadow the features. The mouth is thin- I didn't even draw the upper lip, but it can be suggested with a shadow. The lower lip is just shadowed underneath. The ears are drawn between the two lines of the middle and nose.  Give the bandage some folds. Use shadow technique to give the face wrinkles and avoid heavy lines.  The hair is dirty and stringy, so it is just a few lines; make some of the lines heavy and others light; this will give him an unkempt homeless look. Make his tunic look raggy and draw the placard around his neck.

(c)Adron Dozat