SOLID BLACK EFFECTS
Solid Blacks. The placing of solid blacks should be done very carefully. Until the pupil has had adequate practice it will be well for him to outline in pen and ink the spaces to be filled with solid black, before applying the brush. (See Fig. i.) This process will prevent the abrupt or uneven edges frequently found in the brush work of the beginner. The brush should be used with just sufficient of the black pigment to produce denseness when the ink has dried. The best results are obtained by putting the blacks in after the pencil sketch, or guide lines, have been erased. Otherwise, the rubber eraser may remove part of the black surfaces, leaving them somewhat grayish.
Methodical Brush Handling. The brush should be used methodically. It should not be splashed back and forth. (See Fig. 2.) A good way is to commence at the upper parts of the spaces to be covered and slowly work downward. (See
Fig- 3-)
Things to Be Avoided. To get so much ink on the brush that it will drip.
To get so little ink on the brush that the blacks are semi-transparent or streaky.
The advice given just above applies to brush work generally.
It will repay the effort to make several drawings of an experimental character showing how effective a picture can be that is made up of merely simple outlines fortified by solid black masses thrown in by means of a pliable pen or a small brush.
For practice, two drawings should be made as nearly alike as possible. On one of them, with pencil, the places intended for solid blacks should be outlined and then filled. The other should remain in outline.
Sections
- Action Drawing
- Advice To Teachers
- Beginners Instructions
- Blocking In
- Clay Modeling
- Copying By Triangulation
- Decorative Ornamental Art
- Drawing From Nature
- Early Exercises
- Elementary Lines
- Elementary Perspective
- Expression Emotion
- Foreshortening
- Geometrical Form
- How To Draw Animals
- How To Draw Cartoons
- How To Draw Charcoal Crayon
- How To Draw Flowers
- How To Draw Women Men Children
- Lettering
- Light And Shade
- Materials For Drawing
- Models Measurements Proportions
- Outlines For Beginners
- Paper Folding Cutting
- Pen And Ink Drawing
- Principles Of Composition
- Simple Story Pictures
- Solid Black Effects
- Stimulating Imagination
- Tracing Transferring
- Two Handed Exercises