Scribble - Sparta

Description

Sparta was an ancient Greek city with lots of soldiers. The inhabitants called themselves Lacedaemonians and were fascinated by drill and battle.

When we call something 'spartan', then we want to express sobriety, rawness, reducing to the minimum.

I look at my HB pencil, and I see him circling along the paper in loneliness, without the support from other pens. Then for me, it is the "Last of the Spartans" (well, this could become a famous movie)

Info
The image is a compilation / collection of various contents.
So this is not a whole scene, but an hopefully interesting arrangement of the parts.

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Steps

In a scribble drawing my pencil gets a lot of freedom.
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)

Hier is a close-up view:

1. Finedrawing with the grid method (without a predrawing)
2. Finedrawing (pencil)
3. Finedrawing (pencil)
4. Finedrawing (pencil)
5. 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