SHADING AND COLOURING BASICS

The written section in most exams is checked by a computer but there's a human checking your drawing aptitude and skills. And anything that glitters is gold for them. Anything that is coloured adds to the marks you are going to get. So it is essential to work on both your shading and colouring techniques. Mostly you will be using either oil pastels or pencil colours or plastic crayons and these are some of the best and most friendly methods to merge and create some fabulous colours on paper.

So here's how you should get started. Go through all the your shading and colouring books and read up on the techniques that are given out there. Practise the warm up and skill building exercises. The books would recommend you to do them just once or twice but for perfection practise them everyday till your hand starts to flow. If you don't know the list of books you ought to buy [click here]

Second there's wikipedia for anything and everything so read up these two okayish articles on colour mixing and shading.

Thirdly, there's a whole lot of stuff you would learn just from seeing other people's works so do check out deviantart sign up and upload your stuff. Browse through other people's artwork and comment. Learn from others your age or elder to you. Look at the techniques that the use and try to imitate them or better still develop your own. It's not a one day process but there's nothing in this world which time cannot teach.

And if you are too lazy and lack the initiative to do any of the above here's a shortcut. It's recommended only if you are one or two weeks away from your entrance.   

WARNING : Do not open these unless you have a fair idea of the techniques so follow step one at all cost.

Here's how to use oil pastels : Click here

There's a lot of videos and we recommend that you go through each of them slowly and master them one at a time. There's a lot of neat techniques which no tom, dick or harry would know and it is essential that you master them as new techniques always fetch brownie points in the drawing section.

Here's a bunch of tutorials for shading 

Click here, here, here  and here . The tutorials are brilliant and some of the most in depth and extensive that we have seen. But they are no match for those that are there in the books that we have recommended.

That's all for now.

-Team CrackDesign