Stippling how-do-you-do stippling and what are some examples and different variations?
So there are two different types of terms for stippling they call a dart or
stippling
now what stippling is is a series of dots that you draw over and over to form a
maybe a type of pattern or to draw a shape to add depth and form to drawings and
to add contrast between the highlights and the shadows so
What I can do here if I'm stippling is I can have a shape with an outline
And
Add my stippling inside that shape and let's say the light source is coming from this direction
So my stippling is going to be on this side and that side is going to have less stippling
Now when you're doing your stippling the slower you go and the smaller the
Nib of the pen the better the stippling is going to look
So if I go really really fast in my stippling it's not gonna look as detailed and
as good as it would look if I was to
Do this at a slower pace?
So, for example, I'm going to redraw my circle
and
I'm going to stipple
inside of that circle
At a slower pace and you'll notice that if you slow down when you're doing your stippling
The stippling is going to look a lot more
Detailed and it's going to look better because you're paying attention to the placement of the dots
I'm actually going to switch over to a different pen
The reason I was pushing to a different pen is because I'm using cheap printer paper here and the ink from my fountain pen
feathers a lot on it
But back for I was talking about so when you're doing your stippling just pay attention to where you're placing the dots
now if you place dots too close to each other or overlapping like that and
in that area you want the dots to be spaced out and the reason you might want that is because
Let's say in your circle in this area here
the light isn't
It's not in complete light and it's not in complete shadow. It's in the area but right in the middle of the circle
So the stippling in that area is going to be more spread out
Whereas the area in shadow is going to be packed together and there's going to be a lot of dots in that area
So when you're doing your stippling if you just slow down a little bit and pay attention to where you're putting the dots
It's going to look a lot better
Would have done
My dad's covering the whole area and then I can get going
Back to that circle and I can start on the side
He'd add more dots and slowly reducing the amount of dots I have going in that direction
Now what I'm doing my stippling you'll notice that as I'm doing it I'm doing it in a pattern just like this
The stippling that I do kind of looks like - like it's in two rows
Or you could say it's in like an X pattern. I'm
Crossing back and forth now. That's just the technique that I use for what I'm doing my stippling
It's just a pattern that I've come up with that. I find the most efficient because I've done it for so long and
Once you do something over and over it's just ingrained into your muscle memory
And so then that pattern and that style of stippling you probably use the majority of all your drawings
Now you can use any type of pattern that you want to use for a stippling
You could stipple like this up and down you could go a pattern like that. You can stipple like this
I'm kind of random it. It doesn't matter. It's completely up to you
Whatever pattern works for you, you can use that pattern now if you wanted to for your stippling you could create a pattern
and then
For that pattern you can just save that and what I mean by that is you just get another piece of paper
You do your patterns like this and then you can label that as you know, my line pattern
And then you can do another one where you go like this
And
That can be three line pattern
As this variations of doing lines or say, for example, you're wanting to stipple something. That is a circle
It could be that type of pattern
Now when you're doing stippling and this can be for
any type of drawing really such as mandalas even but
specifically more so for stippling is when I'm doing my stippling I try to
Remember the patterns I try to practice those patterns over and over so that when I go to stipple again
it's just it's really burned into my memory and
I don't forget how to do that pattern because I've done it so many times and I like to write down on a
spare sheet of paper
Or keep it into a sketchbook that I have it as a collection of references and in that sketchbook
I have the different patterns that I have for the stippling and
that helps me so that in the future from doing my stippling it allows me to look back at that reference and
Say hey, I can I can just look at this and add that into the drawing for example
if I'm drawing something and let's say it's a face in a portrait, or maybe I'm drawing a
car a tree a flower
or maybe or maybe it's a shape that I haven't still put before or drawing or done shading before and
I'm not really sure how I want to do that now
I can look at my sketchbook and use as a reference
Or maybe I have done it before but I've kind of forgotten how to do it now
I can look back at that reference. And you know, look at the how the stippling was done and it was like oh hey
now I remember how to do it and
when you're doing them stippling like I said before is just take your time if you're rushing it a lot and
That goes for any drawing that you're doing the faster you go. The less detailed is going to be
most of the time
So when you're doing your stippling just slow down and pay attention or you're placing the dots
Now if I'm placing the dots
really close
You're going to get more shading
Now you space them out more
It's going to give an area that has less detail. There's less dots so that area is usually the air this and more light
so
one thing I like to use stippling for is when i'm drawing portraits or
maybe I'm doing a doodle or an abstract drawing and
You know, I've got all my line work and everything, but I want to add stifling into it to make it more
Make it more three-dimensional. I have some depth to it. For example, if I'm drawing say a cloud
Or it could be like smoke or something whatever you want to make it
You can make that look much better and add more depth to it if I was to add stippling
Not lights can be coming from this way
Which means that all the stippling on this cloud I have here is going to be darkest on this side
Now what I do when I'm stippling I always like to start from the darkest area and then go to the lightest area
Now you can do it from lighter to darker
But I just find the easier to go from darker to lighter and how I do that is
There's two different ways that you can do it one way
Would be to just kind of stipple the whole area a little bit like that
And then go in and add more stippling over it again and
the areas that need it more
To where these areas are and more shadow. They're not getting as much light. So there's going to be more dots
The second way you could do it would be to just
Start from the darkest area
for example
Get like another cloud drawn in here you can start from the
Darkest area and just go from dark to light without doing a second layer. For example, I'll do it. I'll show an example that
So light is coming from this way
Now I'm just gonna do the all the stippling all at once
There's not gonna be different layers. I'm not going to go back in and go over it
I'm just doing it as it is
Now this requires a bit more practice
I think then going in for a second time like it did any first example
So you just practice it a bit and after a while?
It'll come to you know, you won't have to
Don't be as focused and it won't be as difficult
but with anything the more you practice the better you get at it and just
Keep doing it over and over
Now my next tip for when you're doing stippling is
Don't hold the pen too hard because if you're holding the pen really hard and you're stippling
You might press too hard into the paper and damage the tip of the pen
you'll
Probably have your hand cramp up very fast doing that as well and
also when you're doing your stippling is
To make sure that you're using something that doesn't feather a lot
You want something that has?
the ability to draw the dots
Without any feathering and that's why I switched from this pen
or actually I switched from the fountain pen to this one because
I'm just using this as
My drawing tutorial so the paper that I'm using here is just cheap printer paper now when I'm using this fountain pen because
The ink is a lot thicker
Then what's in this?
When the ink goes onto the paper
You'll see that it spreads out a lot more
Now if I hold the pen there for too long
You'll see the ink spreads out
And I don't get that even stippling like I can get in the rest of this
and
Part of the reason for that because I'm using cheap paper
But if you can't afford expensive paper and you want to do stippling make sure using something no such as this some fine liner
or actually probably be best off with a
Technical pen like a micron or you can get an off-brand of it
But when I'm doing this as you can see it feathers into the paper because I'm using cheap paper
So make sure that you're paying attention to that as well
Make sure that the paper you're using is the right type of paper depending on how you want to do your stippling
Now if you're doing stippling on cheap paper like this, you're gonna have problems with feathering
now to accommodate for that what I can do is
as soon as I touch the paper with the pen I
Can just bring my hand up really fast
Which can be hard because when you when you're a beginner it's gonna be hard to
Kind of figure out how long is just keep it onto the paper
So when you first start you might yeah. Oh no, I accidentally left it there too long. You might make that mistake
so just make sure you're using a
pen
That doesn't have much feathering to it. So probably use a better paper and
Use a technical pen
Now you don't want to use pens that have a flexible nib
for example I have here is
The newest a hub. This has a flexible nib to the pen
so if I'm drawing
My stippling
You see how big of a dot I get there. It's huge compared to the rest of it and
know if I do it really quick I can you know, but if you're doing stippling
you're doing all this stippling over and over and over and then you're like, oh, no then you have
You know a huge dot and then it just ruins everything
And you can really tell that with this cheap printer paper
Another tip I have for when you're doing your stippling is
Don't be in a rush
Take your time
and if you need to listen to relaxing music or any type of song that you want to listen to
Because stippling is a form of art that takes a lot longer
than a lot of other drawing styles and
It requires a lot of patience. So I think that if you have never done stippling before and you're more of a line artist
You might have trouble, you know, having the patience with it because you know, it takes a lot longer to do it. And so
One thing that will help you with is if you're mostly a line artist, it's going to help you with learning
Shadow areas and highlights in form and all that. So if you come from a background know drawing anime
Or like cartoon characters and stuff like that and you're just a line artist
This is going to help you to learn how to draw know different values and make things more
Three-dimensional rather than only we're relying on your line art
So if you're already drawing anime or your line artist you could add this stippling into it to make it look even more realistic
now that's only if you want to do that now unless you're drawing something for a comic and you don't want the stippling there because
it
No doesn't really go with the same with it, you know, then that's understandable
But if you want something to look more realistic
stippling
For the most part will usually make most drawings look better
Depending on what it is that you're drawing. So I
like to use stippling for doing portraits, it helps me to learn the different values and
try to imagine the light is coming from for example, if I'm doing a drawing of a portrait and say
no drawing where the eye is and then like, you know, you've got your from where the nose is at and then
Top part of the eye then you know the eyebrow
So on and so forth
um
when you're doing it with lines the thing is is that
You know that that's it's one big line
So it's a lot harder to try and fix that problem too. Whereas if you're drawing and you're just doing it with stippling
You can just take your time and pay attention to what you're doing and
Any small dot that might not be in the right place that you want
You could you know add a dot kind of spread out from that and then go back in
and
Fix that problem for example, let's say I have a dot here that didn't want on the go. Oh no
I messed it up
You know that might be what you're thinking if your first are stippling, but I can fix that all I have to do
Is think myself okay
Where do I want the eye to be at in this face? And I'm drawing this portrait. And what I could do is
That could be where I want the eye
And then
Notice still there, but think then again if you do have like one dot
Then it's not that big of a deal because there's so many dots everywhere
You're not really gonna notice that as much as you would if you know if you're doing a drawing and there was no lines in
it
because there's a so many dots there that
it kind of
Distracts you from the tiny little mistake that you do have
so
Those are some of my tips that I have right now for stippling if you have any suggestions or any other tips for stippling
Go ahead and let me know in the comments down below
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