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How to Sketch Edited by Kajsa.

mc, Dvortygirl, KnowItSome, Horses4Ever and 45 others 99 Article Edit Discuss Sketch Sketching is drawing vaguely or roughly. Sketching can be used in art or to just get an idea of how something will look. Sketching is used in business, too. Som eone might draw a sketch of how a product, building, or other concept might look . Sketching is also a good warm-up for drawing or painting. Edit Steps 1 Gather all materials listed. Make sure you have enough light. You can sketch at a table, in the park, in the middle of the city in a sketchbook, on regular paper, or even on a napkin. You might want to try different versions of the same object to brainstor m and later decide which you like best. 2 Before you start sketching, practice some hand movements. For example, you c an draw circles or horizontal lines for five-ten minutes to warm up your hand. 3 Starting with your pencil, use light strokes with loose hands. Move your han d very quickly, using minimal pressure, almost glossing over the page without st opping. Get comfortable with the paper you are working with. At this initial sta ge, you should barely be able to see the strokes. Consider this to be the founda tion of your sketch. 4 For the next stage, use the darker 6 B pencil. When you achieve the perfect shape in Step 1, you can then define your strokes more precisely with this darke r pencil. Keep adding details. Start adding inner shapes. Make sure they are to scale. For example, when drawing a parking ramp, you want to make sure that the entrances and parking spots are the appropriate size. When you are finished using this pencil, you will notice smudges on the pages since the lead on this pencil is softer than the previous one. Remove all smudges with the eraser. Make sure you use a soft eraser like the putty eraser so that your erasi ng does not rip off the top layer of the page. The putty eraser will lighten you r lines, not completely eradicate them. 5 Add further details and perfect your lines and presentation until you are sa tisfied that you have captured the perfect representation. 6 When you have completed your sketch, apply a fixative to seal the image. Edit Tips Have a sharp pencil. Sharp pencils are good for fine details. Make sure you are comfortable. Sitting with good posture will let you work f or a longer period of time. Going over your work with a tracing pen, dark marker, or a dark pencil is a great way to make your sketch look real, even if it's of something fake. My pref

erence for going over sketches is a thin black Sharpie or a regular black Sharpi e. Don't rush. Small, light strokes, again, will let you produce a sketch that is neat and to scale. Putty erasers are good for erasing little spots. Practice. Try sketching lots of different things, and don't worry about whet her your sketches look good, especially at first. Don't be afraid to experiment or just doodle. To give your sketch a good touch up, try adding thin streaks of light colore d pencils in your drawing. If you want to store your image on the computer, you might want to scan it i n. Let the picture come to you and don't force it out! You can go over your work at the end to make some spots darker for shadow or definition.

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