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13th February 2018, 07:26 AM #1
Fairly new beginner, any tips/critisism/pointers welcome and wanted!
Hi, brand new here, I'm just starting out with pyrography really and playing around with different styles and techniques. Im struggling with foliage and shading as seen in first and last photo so any tips or links to tutorials would be greatly appreciated! Cheers all
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18th February 2018, 11:39 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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You're off to a great start with those. Have you got good voltage control? What variety of pen tips are you using?
I think you need to read guides for drawing (and painting for shades) with pen and/or pencil.
Modelling the shapes has always been a paint struggle for me. This looks the same!
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Welcome to the forum.
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19th February 2018, 06:24 AM #4
Thanks for the feedback... I'm using a peter childs machine so I have plenty of control, using mainly the tip of a shading nib as I seem to get better results with that. I have never been any good at drawing with pencil so I think that may be a good place to start!
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Drawing improves with practice. Makes me look pretty good at it when you draw, just for the hell of it, every day.
Subject doesn't matter. A wine glass, the corner of the neighbor's house = the same.
Shadowing to model the shape is light control = pick a single direction for source.
Darker darks and lighter lights.
I'm one of the old farts that you may have seen on the waterfront, drawing and painting the boats.
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1st June 2019, 03:18 PM #6
I'm an artist and an art teacher, but new to pyrography - so I'll just talk about art
Buy an art journal (cheap shop, not art shop!) and some 2b pencils and draw every day for 30 days. Be religious about it, it's only 30 days and need not be more then a 10 minute quick sketch if you are really time poor one day - but make up for it other days. Try to get into the "zone". Look at something in terms of outline, and then look at something in terms of light and shade.
In terms of composition never put the main point near the centre of the page. Look up "rule of three composition".
These things are going to make everything much easier!
For the woodburning side of things I'm where you are!
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