Professionals share top sketching tips for both beginners and advanced levels.
."This will minimise the amount your hand smudges your pencil lines. If you're right-handed, start shading from left to right; if you're left-handed, start at the right and move to the left.
here."Use spare paper to doodle a big swatch of soft graphite or charcoal pencil, then use a large blending stick to pick up the soft dust to use for your image," she explains."Keep using the blending stick and adding more scribbles as you need more graphite." You can then build up darker areas to create definition.
"I like symmetrical drawings, but they often look boring all too quickly," says Croes."A good way to prevent this is to add some subtle changes and only keep the general lines symmetrical instead of mirroring every small part. Keeping some elements asymmetrical helps to avoid boring repetition."Consider if the material is rough or smooth, and if it absorbs or reflects light
A good starting point is to consider if the texture is rough or smooth, and then if it absorb or reflects light."A reflecting and smooth texture, such as chrome, usually has higher contrasts and prominent highlights, while an absorbing and rough texture like cotton has low contrasts and little to no highlight present," he continues.