Getting Started – Drawing the Contours of the Glove and Ball
Ashley begins the drawing by analyzing the relationships between the edges of the glove and the boundaries of the picture plane. This provides a starting point for comparisons. In order to begin a drawing in this manner, you must first plan out the picture plane – making it proportional to the photo reference. As you can see below, Ashley has done this.
Ashley looks for locations along the edge of the picture plane where the glove goes out of view and uses this information to place the first marks. Drawing is about observation and making comparisons and this is great place to begin making comparisons.
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With the overall shape of the glove and ball defined, Ashley continues to make visual comparisons. With the contours in place, he can begin to add some of the details using basic shapes.
Shading the Baseball Glove and Ball with Pencil
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As mentioned before, this image is full of different values and textures. For this reason, it’s important to get some of these values in place as soon as possible. One approach to doing this is to draw the contours of all of the details and then meticulously shade each section.
While this approach is perfectly acceptable for longer drawings (untimed), we are working against a time constraint here. For this reason, Ashley decides to begin adding some shading earlier in the process. His plan here is to add tone with a quick pass of the graphite and then pull out details by adjusting the values with both erasers and the pencil.
In the image below, we see this taking place. The value that is developed is still relatively light, but it does provide a middle value in which to push both darker and lighter.
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From here, it’s a matter of refining the values and highlighting the details. Ashley adds a small value scale in order to make comparisons. This value scale helps him to measure the values he includes in the drawing.
In nearly every drawing or painting, a full range of value is required in order to create a convincing drawing. In order to push the range of value, Ashley begins darkening the shapes of darker tone with pencil while pulling out the highlights and lighter values with an eraser.
While this happens, the range of value becomes broader with higher levels of contrast. The texture of the glove slowly emerges and details begin to make sense. This is largely due to the fact that the illusion of texture is so dependent on value and directional stroking.
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