How to draw wool pptx

How to draw wool quickly and easily Step 1: Basic grid You can notice that the surface of clothes is hardly ever completely flat.. outline basic guidelines Step 2: Guidelines Now that

How to draw wool

In this tutorial you'll learn how to draw a woolen sweater or wool in general Just find a suitable reference you want to draw or use the one from this tutorial and follow the five steps You're going to need just three kinds of pencil, for example

H, 2B and 5B That's all If you like the woolen sweater in the drawing of Dakota Fanning, you'll like to learn how to draw it So let's get started now

How to draw wool quickly and easily

Step 1: Basic grid

You can notice that the surface of clothes is hardly ever completely flat Therefore you should take into account its curvature and find a way to describe it Here comes the advice Imagine several equidistant parallel lines on the surface of clothes There may be some tracks to help you, like stitches, patterns and so on Try to copy the imaginary lines onto your canvas (you may use an H-pencil) These will serve as basic guidelines for further work

outline basic guidelines

Step 2: Guidelines

Now that you're done with basic guidelines, you can add some more lines which actually represent the pattern on the sweater Take the H-pencil again Make these lines parallel to guidelines, but in one direction only Feel free to make them a little bit thicker and rugged this time The space between each of them should be approximately equal to their thickness

parallel guidelines parallel guidelines (zoomed)

Step 3: Mid-tone shadow

If you are quite satisfied with your basic pattern, it is time to let wool grow out of

it First, you have to decide where position of a light source is Let's assume that our light source is above (for simplicity) and the light comes in the direction that is marked by the arrow in the picture below Remember this direction, because

you're going to need it for the very next step

Imagine that the light shines and wool, which is not there yet, casts shadows on itself The shadows are kind of clustered alongside imaginary lines perpendicular

to the direction of the light It's like you would look at a deciduous forest from the air - the tree tops cast shadow on themselves too

It may seem unusual, but we'll start with mid-tone shadows, not the mildest ones

So take your 2B-pencil Now making the move described in the next picture try to draw uneven and randomly large clusters Your hand slowly moves in direction perpendicular to the direction of the light - that's why we needed to remember the direction However, you should take into account the curvature of the surface at the same time, so when there is some rolling on the surface, the clusters are a bit contracted to make feel of plasticity

First, you have to decide where position of a light source is

Then draw uneven and randomly large clusters

Your hand slowly moves in direction

perpendicular to the direction of the light

If you want, you can make just a certain part, not the whole area, and continue with the step number 4

Step 4: Dark shadow

Now take your 5B pencil Making the same moves as explained above draw smaller clusters on the bottom of the previous ones These are darker shadows

dark shadows dark shadows (zoomed)

Step 5: Mild shadow

As you have finished the dark shadows, you can see, that there is still a lot of blank space between clusters So take your H-pencil and fill some space You may

do it quite randomly or fill those gaps where you've left too much of white paper You may still use the "cluster" technique described above However, do not fill all the white space, because the effect of plasticity would fade out

mild shadows mild shadows (zoomed)

Step 6: Global shading & Adding details

At this point the wool looks quite well Nevertheless, by adding some detail, we can make it even more better You can shade it with 2B-pencil as if the fabric was just plain On the other hand, use a rubber eraser to brighten some parts as shown

in the picture below

And the final step is to draw little uneven dark dots with your 5B-pencil It adds some more detail and the wool looks more realistically Now we are finished

darkening and brightening some parts adding some details

Bonus material

As you may notice, the sweater is not complete I didn't want to involve other belongings in this tutorial So here are some more pictures, where you can see how

to continue with stitches for instance