Ink Shading Techniques //free\\

Quick sketches, comic book art, and architectural drawings.

Take a pen. Draw 5 small squares (1 inch each). Fill them with: ink shading techniques

Work from light to dark. You can always add more pigment, but you can't lift it easily once dry. Quick sketches, comic book art, and architectural drawings

Stippling uses dots. More dots = darker value. Fewer dots = lighter value. There are no lines—only density. Fill them with: Work from light to dark

Scraping and lifting involve removing ink from the paper to create highlights or correct mistakes.

| Mistake | Fix | | :--- | :--- | | | Pull the pen toward you; don’t push it like a shovel. | | Rushing values | Do a 5-value scale (white to black) before you start. | | Outlining shadows | Shadows fade out. Don’t draw a hard line where a shadow "ends." Let the shading taper off. | | Too uniform | Vary your line spacing. Randomness looks natural. |