PENCIL SKETCHING

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PENCIL SKETCHING

• Presentation
• by
• Dennis L. Law, ASLA
• Professor and Dean
• College of Architecture, Planning and Design
• Kansas State University

Conte Crayon sketch by Dennis Law
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PENCIL SKETCHING

• Equipment
• Technique
• Composition
• Examples

Pencil sketch by Dennis Law
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PENCIL SKETCHING

• Equipment
• Pencils
• Sharpening
• Paper
• Stump
• Erasers

Pencil sketch by Dennis Law
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Equipment

• Pencils
• Hardness/softness
• Hard 2H, H, HB
• Soft B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B
• Tone varies with paper, atmosphere, brand
  subject.

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Equipment

• Sharpening the Pencil
• Never use a point, but rather use a wedge.
• Fuzzy wines are the best wines

Pencil Sketch by Dennis Law
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Equipment

• Paper
• Aquabee Drawing 812 and Strathmore Alexis -
  rough and gives grained appearance to middle to
  light tones

Pencil Sketch by Dennis Law
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Equipment

• Paper
• Aquabee Satin Finish - smooth - surfaced paper
  for great tones.
• Video - Expensive but the best

Pencil Sketch by Dennis Law
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Equipment

• Stump
• Use very seldom
• Will be demonstrated in class

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Equipment

• Erasers
• Prefer kneaded eraser
• A drawing that needs a lot of correction by
  eraser is not going to be successful.

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PENCIL SKETCHING

• Technique
• Preventing smudges
• Portrait versus Landscape
• Hard to soft
• Drawing smaller than you see
• Draw only shadows
• Composition

Pencil sketch by Dennis Law
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TECHNIQUE

• Preventing Smudges
• Build a Bridge
• Start by laying out drawing with harder leads
• Start upper left-hand corner (right-handed people
• Upper right if left-handed

Pencil sketch by Dennis Law
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TECHNIQUE

• Portrait versus Landscape
• Understand principles of composition
• Portrait is for vertical subjects
• Landscape is for horizontal subjects

Sketch by Dennis Law
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TECHNIQUE

• Pointers
• Start with hard leads and move to softer as
  drawing develops
• Use no more than 3 leads weights
• Draw smaller than you see
• Draw only shadows and let white of the paper work
• Leave white around the drawing for composition

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PENCIL SKETCHING

• Examples
• Materials
• Openings
• Windows
• Roof
• Shadows
• Plant materials
• Water

Sketch by Dennis Law
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COMPOSITION

• Examples
• Materials
• Openings
• Windows
• Roof
• Shadows
• Plant materials
• Water

Sketch by Dennis Law
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EXAMPLES

• Wood Boards
• First, lay in the black tones with soft lead
• Keep strokes broad and firm. Bear down
• Sharp strokes to suggest shadows on edge of board
• A few diagonal strokes to relieve monotony of
  vertical boards

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EXAMPLES

• Openings
• Break up dark area with pencil strokes that have
  a variety of direction and value
• Leave some touches of clear white paper between
  some of the strokes

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EXAMPLES

• Windows
• Always variation in reflected light on windows
• Windows are generally black
• Vary darkness between panes
• Leave areas of white

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EXAMPLES

• Roofs
• First lay in tones
• Horizontal lines are predominate
• Lighten some shingles by erasing with kneaded
  eraser
• Darken lower edges to simulate shadows

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EXAMPLES

• Shadows
• Do not draw a line to show outlines of shadows
• Shadow darkest at edge of light
• Shadows are darker than shaded areas
• Undulate shadows to give depth where appropriate

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EXAMPLES

• Plant Materials
• Grasses
• Start with gray lines which represent blades
• Darken in the shadows at the bottom of the blades
  
• Put in seed heads as demonstrated
• Use sharp lines to cast shadow edge

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EXAMPLES

• Plant Materials
• Deciduous Trees
• Lightly (very) draw in basic geometric form
• Subdivide into leaf masses
• Cast shadows
• Draw in truck and major branches (white against
  shadows, black against sky)
• Tie to the ground

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EXAMPLES

• Plant Materials
• Coniferous Trees
• Begin with light vertical trunk
• Lightly sketch in branch patterns - steep at top
  and less steep at bottom
• Draw needles and shadows
• Fill in truck
• Tie to the ground

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EXAMPLES

• Plant Materials
• Specialty plants
• Begin with light vertical trunk
• Lightly sketch in branch patterns - steep at top
  and less steep at bottom
• Draw needles and shadows
• Fill in truck
• Tie to the ground

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EXAMPLES

• Water
• Start with horizontal strokes, darkest nearest to
  shoreline
• Leave white or light areas below object to be
  reflected.
• Finish with series of vertical lines, darkest
  nearest to shore and lighten as you move away

Pencil Sketch by Dennis Law
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EXERCISES

• Exercise one

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EXERCISES

• Exercise two

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EXERCISES

• Exercise three