This new series is the perfect project for when you’re stuck indoors. I will be showing you how I make a study in pencil of my own studio. You can either use the reference provided (see below). Or better yet, make a study of the inside of your own home or studio. You can work from a photo or life – whichever you prefer 🙂
In this session we will be fleshing out our initial line sketch with some nice masses of tone…

- Start by laying in a light, even tone over anything that isn’t going to be very bright (I left the window and two other sources of light the same tone as the paper.
- You can use linear hatching (shading in a single direction) for this part.

- Once the general tone is in place you can pick darker shapes and start to deepen their tone.
- This will give the scene more depth and structure.
- Resist the temptation to add lots of detail – just focus on getting the big tones right.

- Keep working this way until most of the main masses of tone are shaded in.
- Next week we will use this as a basis to start rendering and adding more details.
The materials you will need for this course are:
- Paper (or a sketchbook)
- Range of pencils (H, HB, B, 2B) – ideally a few mechanical pencils as well as regular ones.
- Kneadable eraser
- Sharpener or sanding block
- Tape
- Drawing board (if you aren’t using a sketchbook)
You can download the source image for the series here:
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