Drawing: Creating Contrasts

Here is a small step-by-step guide to discover how to use soft grey pencils and blending tools to give your drawings contrast and depth.

Example shown here is a drawing of an eye, which can be applied to all your drawings!

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Making the Sketch

Prepare your drawing by sketching the whole eye to properly assess the proportions. Use a light pencil (4H, 2H, or HB). These pencils are easily erasable if there is a mistake. This way, you can place your markers without fear of making errors.

Enrich the drawing

The outlines are laid out, now with a slightly thicker pencil (2B) you can enrich the drawing, here draw the eyelashes, the pupil..

Create the contrasts

Using a soft pencil (4B or 6B), we will press the lines in shadow areas to darken those parts of the drawing. Here, under the upper eyelid, as well as the inside of the eye.

Creating Shadows

Using a blending stump, we color in shadow areas. Blending stumps are small pencils made of absorbent paper, allowing you to blend the previously applied oil pastel and spread the gray slightly to create gradients. There’s no need to overdo it; we blend the gray, and quickly the effects of volume are created.

To preserve your drawing for a long time, we recommend using a fixative at the end.