Art Techniques: Stippling and Hatching

Drawing Techniques

• Stippling drawing involves creating images with tiny dots, using a single tone to create realistic pictures through shading, texture, and details.
• The stippling process starts with an outline, followed by filling with dots in different gradients.

Hatching and Cross-Hatching

• Hatching drawing involves using adjacent parallel lines to create an image, with varying line size, number, and distance to achieve shading effects.
• Cross-hatching involves lines meeting and crossing each other, rather than being parallel.

Scumbling and Scribble Art

• Scumbling and scribble drawings use soft, uneven lines, small rough circles, and other rough scribbles to create images, similar to hatching and cross-hatching.
• These techniques use rough lines and shapes to create shading and texture.

Shadows and Shading

• A shadow is the dark side of an object not facing the light, revealing its form and mass.
• The Form Shadow Core is the darkest point within the Form Shadow, where no light hits the surface.
• Shading is the darkening or coloring of a drawing with lines or blocks of color, creating the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality.

Areas of a Form

• The Light Side includes the Highlight and Halftones, where the light directly hits the object.
• The Highlight is the lightest part of the object, while Halftones are lighter than the shadow side and blend into it.
• The Shadow Side includes the Form Shadow, Form Shadow Core, and Reflected Light.
• The Cast Shadow has three parts: the darkest part under the object, the mid-tone, and the lightest, softest tail.