Drawings on kraft paper

Drawings on craft paper will look as good as on canvas. It is very important to find out in advance what is the best way to draw on craft paper and what can be portrayed for novice fans of artistic hobbies. A separate hot topic is light drawings with colored pencils and drawing with markers on craft paper.

They began to draw on craft paper a long time ago. This approach was first tried by students from art schools and architecture departments. Inexpensive and very strong products are excellent for obtaining:

• sketches;
• drawings;
• working sketches.

Thick paper material is good for a bright drawing and allows you to enter quite a lot of edits. It is useful to stock up on a white pencil. Although he himself almost does not give expressive color, but it perfectly blurs other tones, and also allows you to form shadows.

Drawing is also possible with markers. Soft effects are not achieved in this way. But the tool ensures you get sketches and quick sketches. Colored markers give a similar result. They give a spectacular look:

• sepia;
• ink;
• coal;
• sanguine.

Charcoal obtained from burnt vines gives especially good results. Such a tool leaves a black-brown color. It is similar in tone to brown paper. Portraits are created with sanguine, and landscapes are preferably painted in sepia.Tinted sheets with a pronounced texture are better suited for drawing with dry pastels than plain white paper.

You just need to remember that thick crayons are not very comfortable. Regular pencils are much more effective. Shading textured brown material is not as easy as it sounds. If the pencil is heavily grinded on the sheet, you should select a texture with greater smoothness. Soft paints are fixed with a special varnish, which prevents them from shedding.

Wet painting techniques on kraft paper are not very practical. Even thick sheets can be broken. When working with watercolors, it is very important to control the dilution of the paint. This kind of creativity is perfect for landscape sketches. It is necessary to clearly distinguish between transparent and opaque watercolor paints.

You can also use a regular black pen. It is mainly used for sketching. This drawing method requires diligence and accuracy, because mistakes are almost fatal. However, in skillful hands with a pen, you can achieve a very pleasant result.

There are various options for drawing on kraft paper. But for beginners, it makes sense to consider only the simplest compositions. They will allow you to "fill your hand", then it will turn out to perform more complex subjects much easier and faster. Trainings are carried out:

• on circles (they are drawn as much as possible, making sure that the borders do not intersect);
• on hatching (it is useful to draw it, learning to create a structure);
• on the contours, chiaroscuro;
• when creating a perspective (parallelepipeds in volumetric space);
• in building a composition.

Only then, when all these light images are formed, can you do a more serious matter: use a sketchbook on craft paper to sketch various objects. There are a lot of plots: they are taken from cartoons and videos, from book illustrations and classical painting. It's nice to practice copying photos (not necessarily the whole thing, the only subject from the whole picture will also allow you to practice your skills). If the goal is to work out your drawing skills as soon as possible, then you need to copy on paper everything that is only found around, more often take any object you see.

You should try to apply it on kraft paper in stages, and here it is important not to chase speed, but to practice accuracy and scrupulousness at every point, in every stroke. When ordinary objects are already easy to draw, you need to move on to composing artistic compositions at your own discretion. The images of dragons and other fictional or real animals are quite complex. And yet, almost all drawing lovers can create such plots. A more difficult level is the creation of compositions in the spirit of anime or other directions of animation that do not have real prototypes and prototypes. You can also consider options such as:

• vases with flowers;
• plants (shrubs, flowers or trees) that give a complex play of light and shadow;
• the contours of a garden or park, barely discernible in the fog;
• flocks of birds;
• coats of arms and other symbols;
• objects combined with their reflection;
• water surface;
• collages;
• imitation comics;
• wind-blown autumn leaves;
• historical plots;
• scenes from the cinema.

Speaking about specific options for drawings on kraft paper, it is worth specifying the following images:

• hot air balloon flying in the clouds;

• autumn leaves with twigs;

• running hot dog;

• a whale of cheerful colors;

• a scene based on rural life;

• plot with two birds.

How and what to draw on craft paper, see the video.