Scribble - Christmas 2014

Description

"Let it snow"

Somehow on Christmas I always think about snow falling in the forest and lying on the fir trees.

Maybe I'll go into the woods today and who knows, maybe a few pairs of eyes are looking at me, out of the dark shadows...

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Steps

In a scribble drawing my pencil gets a lot of freedom.
The sketch and the contour lines are done exactly (with the grid method).
The shading is done by ‘wild scribbling’, these are squiggly lines that generate a relatively solid surface impression.
If possible, I do not use hatching.
For a further darkening I use an blue ink pen (on the paper this gives a slight blue tint - here I have converted the image to grayscale)

1.Predrawing with the grid method
2. First drawing (pencil)
3. Finished drawing (pencil)
4. Darkening with a pen

final drawing

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Tools/Material

Paper	normal printer-papier (DIN-A4...A6) normal sketchbook paper (DIN-A3)
Pencil HB	for pre drawing, fine lines, area-darkening and graphite-powder
Eraser	(2 x 2 x 0.6 cm) for area-lightening
Eraser	(small - at the end of a pencil) to smear graphite-powder
Sandpaper	to produce graphite-powder with the HB-pencil
Paper handkerchief	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (wide areas)
Finger	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (middle areas)
Pen with bicycle tube	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (small areas)
Cardboard	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (tiny areas)
Eraser-template	simple construction with a gap (1 x 30mm)
Eraser-template	simple construction with a gap (1 x 2mm)
Extra papers	to protect areas