How to draw on scratchboard for beginners!

[Music] all right let's get started with what not to do first you can see my eraser mark from earlier erasers really changed the sheen of this paper so if you erase just know that it's probably going to leave a mark the scratch board that i'm using has a matte finish there is scratch paper available and it's very glossy i find that my students um damage it too easily it's very delicate it's cheaper though so if you need to practice it's good practice so students transfer it just fine um usually and get most of their image many of them forget to put where value change is happening so make sure you do that with a dotted line especially anywhere where there's soft edges a dashed line is best this is what we're going for is kind of a a soft look but a lot of people just make it real chunky and just scrape it off like they're gonna find a 100 lottery ticket or something it's it's not a lottery ticket although it scratches in a similar fashion and they just say oh it's light so i'm just gonna just scratch it all away it's it's not digging up a hole it's not just digging a hole and that's what you're gonna do you're gonna tear your paper you're gonna get holes in it it's gonna look rough and ragged if you just carve into it don't treat it like that it it will destroy it so turn your blade and make a mark on a scratch piece of paper every time you turn your blade it gets a little different angle and gives you a different mark so get it to where the angle is giving you a hair like mark really thin fine even marks there are ways to turn the blade where you get that chunky line but i think in the hands of a beginner it can get away from them see big chunky marks if you haven't watched the hatching video yet i talk a lot about the method of hatching on my pen lesson so i'm using the same technique for hatching here that i use when i'm working with a pen so you might i'll try to put that in the link below a link to that below so what we're doing is we're treating it like rain the more rain in this instance the more hatching the more lines the lighter the value becomes so overlapping will give you a stronger highlight and spacing them out will allow you to have a darker value left so we're revealing our highlights but it's very slow if you're using stippling it's going to be even slower but if you have trouble controlling your line when it comes to hatching stippling may be the safer option for you but just like driving a car driving safer often means going slower so you're going to go a little bit slower but you'll probably get where you're wanting to go as i want the value to become darker i will space my dashes my dots out and i'm just doing little mini value scales here at the top proving that i can create a variety of value using these two different methods i am just like i'm tapping my paper a little bit but i'm also making sure i do a teeny little scratch it's difficult to explain that but if you've scratched off a lottery ticket ever or or any anything like that then it's it is similar but i think i think sometimes when i say that they students want to just kind of with all abandonment just scratch the snot out of it so i'm just about done with this value scale you can see that i'm doing a really small one because i can prove that i know how to do this with a very small little patch i don't have to do a 12 inch value scale to prove that so just a little bit of proof that i can handle both of those things i'm going to show you how to transfer this image if you have your drawing that you want to put on the scratch board ready on on your sketchbook paper grab your graphite stick or a 6b pencil like a dark drawing pencil graphite stick is just faster because it's a big chunk of lead so i'm going to cover the back of my image whether it's a drawing or a printed image like this this is just a printed image i found on the internet of a pair [Music] just a simple just a simple object get a good coverage about like that not not a lot of white gaps showing now flip it over and lay it out like you want it to appear on your image or on your scratchboard [Music] i don't recommend taping it to the surface because it can pull off the black ink or the black surface of the scratch board and i use a ink pen you can use a pencil or just press if you want to if this is an original drawing that you've done and you don't want to destroy it with a pen then just press the pressure will transfer that graphite onto the scratch board without destroying your image anywhere there's a soft value change i use a dotted line so that when i'm working in those areas i know to keep the edges soft so i'm gonna i'm gonna vary my hatching length in those areas and overlap and weave it together differently in that area than i do a hard edge or a crisp edge whatever you want to call it a sharp transition but i think i've kind of mapped everything out and now my real work begins so that transferred really well i have no eraser marks no little greasy spots for messing up so our real focus is not how to draw at this stage we already know how to draw we are focusing on how to draw using different media [Music] now i showed you this smudge earlier that i had done and this is how i did it if you just try to erase even a little bit it's not like oh i'll just barely do it look it already pulls off some of the some of the ink from this scratch paper and it looks terrible now that's something you can correct on a digital image so if you accidentally get a smudge on yours and it's a good portfolio piece that you want to use you can always scan it and work on it in photoshop get it cleaned back up so i know accidents happen but don't on purpose erase it so after seeing this you know you don't have any reason no excuses about that because it can be avoided so just try i did see a little bit of a i don't know a little bounce back from the light a little reflective light on the bottom of that pear so i like to address that because it really gives it a an illusion of realism and i observe it so this pair must be sitting on a surface that is bouncing light onto the bottom of it so if i observe it and i think it's there when i squint and i can't unsee it then i'm gonna record it to the best of my ability so that's what i will look for so i start out in my most light areas just like in pen you start off in your darker areas your safer areas if i were to accidentally get a line that maybe my blade got a got a thicker angle on it and gave me kind of one of those thick lines i talked about earlier there's a better chance that i can hide it in a light area than a dark area so so that's one reason i encourage you to start with areas that are lighter i also have a little paper near me [Music] i usually have a paper beside me like a little scrap piece of paper that i can turn my blade till i find the line that i want and when i have that angle i just hold it like that and then go straight to my my drawing i'm pausing every once in a while just to look at my reference image every time you look away you forget a little bit if you're like me you might forget a lot so i have to look at my reference image often [Music] i stop and check and and i squint okay what's showing up on my reference what's really standing out where the areas of highest contrast that i really need to tackle that's what i'm trying to look at when i squint these look much more convincing when you take a picture of them with your phone something like that that condenses the image those lines kind of fuse together and really create a bold dramatic statement but when you're looking at this close i mean my nose is almost on this pair you can't tell from this video but i'm very close to this and i'm hanging onto this paper pretty tight with my fingers trying to go as fast as i can to to show how i kind of attack a little piece like this but really to appreciate the work that you're doing you need to get away from it just to see if your values are translating i suggest about six foot at least that's a comfortable distance to view your artwork and most people who view it aren't gonna get their nose right in it i hope so see what it looks like from that distance and if it looks good to you from that distance and if it's coming together then you can proceed with a little more confidence instead of being like oh no it looks like there's so many lines and you can see the lines don't worry our brains are so wonderfully made that we just click that all together when we step back from it it just fuses all together and we understand what it's supposed to be i do have to deal with the background that's what i'm thinking about right now what should i do i'm going to try to keep the same angle if you can't keep the same angle in other areas when you're doing hatching because of this issue see i'm trying to get close to this edge without leaving a little dark halo around it and it's it is tricky if you can okay if you can't keep that same angle then at least keep the same angle in each area you're working so the positive space of the pair i would keep it the same angle if i needed to switch directions on the background then i could switch directions on the background i that is a personal suggestion for me i if you hate the way that looks of course don't do it but i find it's a little less distracting if you organize it that way than if you just switch directions mid background and just hack away at it so if you can do a little planning beforehand i guess that would always be best you can see that this particular scratch paper that i'm using does have you know the white underneath of it is is pretty glossy [Music] so it's giving a little shimmer when i introduce this to my classes they they usually like oh yeah i did that when i was little um uh my grandma gave me some paper and it had rainbow underneath and like a glittery surface those are really fun for really any age kids don't grow out of that adults don't grow out of that i love that paper too i just when i'm teaching traditional drawing it's a little distracting to have all that color underneath but it is fun [Music] now i'm not going to show this today but if you want to go over your drawing with sharpie i've seen students do that and it's pretty cool too so they actually color it afterwards with sharpie and it turns out i just got to give a lot of credit to my high school students because they experiment and they try new things and they're curious about what it's going to look like and have i tried this so i get to see a lot of wonderful experimentation and risk taking you know some mistakes but i'm happy to let them try especially if they have a really exciting idea that they're that they just can't shake out of their heads then it's better just to let them try it out and i've seen some good ones like that with a use the marker i don't have much work to do on the cast shadow so that's nice so if you're choosing an image for these i suggest choosing an image that that is kind of dramatically dark that has some really really bold bold bold bolds um it has some really high contrast look for a high contrast image and if you if you come up with one or if you draw one and it's a little bit on the low end of contrast take a photo of it edit it or darken the darks and get rid of some mid-tone it just translates better into this media if it doesn't have a lot of just flat gray middle mid-tone values [Music] you want that kind of caravaggio-esque drama when it comes to scratch art it looks good and it saves you some time because you're not having to develop so many values pop in your lights leave the darks and call it done [Music] i have a little bit of a turn on my angle of my scratch tool now mainly because my hand hurts because i've been doing this for a little bit and i'm ready to take away a little bit more it's quite a long time to do that same motion so it gets a little repetitive when you're kind of not allowed to to stop or take a break you can see i'm i'm going over my pair at the same time as i do this background you can see my blade crosses over into that light side of the pair mainly because those two values the background value and the foreground lights out of the pair are so similar in value i would call them siblings on the value scale they're very closely related so as i lighten one i can lighten the other and keep their relationship intact one will still stay lighter than the other because every time i go back and give a new layer i give a new layer to both checking my reference squinting seeing where mine is not matching my reference cleaning up sharp edges right here where it got a little lumpy and bumpy from my line work polishing this edge giving it one layer extra i have a lot of that dust now i've developed so i'm just brushing it away fingers are a little dirty from it too hey that's the art room for you okay i'm gonna pop in that little highlight right there at the top try not to get rid of the little cast shadow that the stem gives that right side of the pair it's small but it's important it tells a lot about that area and it tells a lot about the direction of the light source and how strong the light source is shadows tell us a lot so we don't want to neglect those [Music] squinting checking kind of pausing got a little bit of a you know halo around this one so i want to soften that i'm not scratching off the background all the way to the edge for this i i try to always leave about a fourth of an inch around any any artwork really just for framing purposes so not only to frame it comfortably without covering up your artwork but also to always have a place for your fingers so you can hold on to it without damaging your artwork or touching all over it if possible now this little study this little practice is i don't know about the size of a index card it's about a fourth of a piece of a sheet of this uh scratch paper just so we can get some experience there's no need in wasting a whole sheet of this [Music] just for a little study like this and i always start with my little value scale at the top first if i destroy that i can just cut off the top of that and try again before i get into you know a little pear study or a sphere or something simple with a simple light source well that's it if you like these tips hit like if you want to hear more from uh day and night studio please subscribe [Music] you

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Length: 24min 8sec (1448 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 24 2022