Progress and Tip

Here is my latest progress of the RSX. I notice, many people has trouble shading the car. I would like to show you one of my technique. First, I will look at my reference picture. Detect the darkest and the brightest spot on the part you are shading. I start with HB pencil. Shading the line out first. Notice the set of lines are all pointed toward the same direction. Put down layers of lines. The brightest area has just few lines, for darkest area has more layer of lines. I wouldn't say my technique is cross-hatching.




After you got that down, you could begin the process of blending. This part is fun. Take a tissue or cotton stick or even blending stomps. Gently blend it with in a circular motion. Then you should get something like this. Look back to your reference picture to check if the level of shade is right, meaning if it look like the reference picture. If not, add some more layers to where it needed to be darker. And blend it again.




Repeating that process should give you something like this. The smoothness depends on what kind of paper you are using. I am using bristol smooth paper for this drawing.



Hope this tip is useful to you. Leave me a comment to tell me what you think! Thank you.

First blog post

Since there were some people asking me to set up a blog, I thought I could share some of my progress of drawing and perhaps give out tips for drawing. I have been extremely busy with school work, haven't got much free time to draw. I will keep you guys updated with my blog post!



Here is a video I set up few days ago. Hope you guys will like this.