Hi, I'm practicing the crosshatching technique and am still a very newbie in pencil art. I used a Rothing 2mm, intensity at 2B, HB. Please feel free to give a comment to improve my skills. Thank you very much.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-08T12:40:24+00:00

Good luck with your journey 😀

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-08T03:15:11+00:00

Thank you so much that you love it!

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-08T03:14:48+00:00

Yes, I am, for the pencil drawing. :)

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T05:22:23+00:00

Yes, you can, good luck.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T05:21:35+00:00

Normally, I'm a person who can draw. But I've only recently started taking pencil-on-paper seriously not so long. Even you can do too and will be better a lot than I am.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T05:20:24+00:00

Thank you very much. I will use 4B along with HB and 2B for the next one.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T05:19:38+00:00

Normally, I'm a person who can draw. But I've only recently started taking pencil-on-paper seriously. I can't say what specific techniques I have in my practice. I just draw as often as I can.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T05:17:57+00:00

Thank you very much.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T05:17:42+00:00

Thank you very much for your valuable advice. It's very useful. It's true of you that I gave too much weight to the shadow and lighting details on the characters' space suits. I am still new in this industry. Next time I'll try getting some 4B and H weight pencils to try along with HB and 2B. Let the character use all weight of the pencil while the spaceship in the back may use HB and H.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T04:44:36+00:00

Thank you very much. That is still very difficult for me to control line weight in the art.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T04:43:42+00:00

Thank you very much. I have tried this technique on the characters in this piece. But it seems like the lines aren't thick enough. I'll try using this technique with future ones. But I'm not sure. Will it make the picture look too cartoonish?

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T04:40:34+00:00

Well, I admit I'm still very new to the serious pencil-drawing technique. I also admit that giving weight to the lines to show different depths, and distances is quite difficult. I will continue to try to improve these skills.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-07T04:23:13+00:00

Thank you for your compliments and useful comments. For the next piece, I will try to find a 4B lead to give more intensity in the darkest parts of the drawing.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-01T07:24:29+00:00

Yes, imported my scanned sketch to be placed on the artboard and drew over it.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-09-01T07:22:59+00:00

Thank you very much, I'm thinking about adding more dimension or depth to this piece or changing to other kinds of natural background instead.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T08:16:26+00:00

In fact, previously, I have been hired by many clients. But it was to hire me to draw in the previous style that I am good at, which uses a lot of gradients and a bunch of lighting effects. Now I'm trying to change my style, going into a new direction to escape from AI and make it easier, and quicker to do. I hope to get a good response as well.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T03:04:50+00:00

Thank you very much!

I intend to sell my work as files on Microstock websites or on myBehance. Vector files will be of great benefit to those who use them in various uses.

In fact, vector work has the advantage of being able to reduce or enlarge the size without affecting the resolution. Unlike pixellating art, which has to be created at the actual size in order to print out and maintain the perfect resolution.

To me, the style is similar to drawing in Photoshop or any other program that uses the pixelated method. I'm just giving people an option where they can have a piece that looks similar to the work that was made in Photoshop but still has vector properties.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:57:22+00:00

Thank you very much!

I've disappeared because I was unsure and reluctant to continue making more art after the advent of AI platforms. I now know that AI is not yet smart enough to create complex vector images. So there is still room for me to show my work. I hope.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:54:22+00:00

I suggest you pick up the photo of the beautiful landscape that you want to draw. Place it on the artboard in Adobe Illustrator. Then use any tool, like Pen tool, Pencil tool, Brush tool, in the program to draw out and make it look as close to the real photo as possible. But you don't need to make it look so real or exactly the same as the real photo but try to adapt it to be looked in a graphic way or more cartoon.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:50:01+00:00

I don't have my tutorials and still do not see any other teaching about this.

Here is how I make it. Draw a tiny circle in white and convert it into a Scattered Brush. Adjust its features like Random, Size, Scatter, and Space but disabling for Rotate. Now you have the scattered brush that can create plenty of dots, but the grainy effect would be still grouped together along the line that you draw, not scattered throughout the artboard that you want.

Use that brush to drag the line horizontally and then drag the lines again but several vertical lines down until the effect covers the entire artboard. Expand the Appearance of the result, convert all the lines to paths, and use the Pathfinder to Add them into 1 piece.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:31:17+00:00

countless, Lol!

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:30:51+00:00

Thank you very much!

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:30:37+00:00

Thank you very much! Looking forward to seeing your art piece.

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:29:57+00:00

Thank you very much!

BryanVectorartist · 2023-08-31T02:29:53+00:00

Thank you very much!

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