Day 10 Hatching a Teddy Bear Drawing something as complex as this teddy bear can seem terribly overwhelming. Where do you even start a drawing like this? The answer is to chop teddy up into bite size chunks. We know to start at the top and also work from the left to the right. (if you are right handed) So we will start at the top left ear and work our way right and down, panel for panel. Almost as though we are sowing him together. 98
Step 1 Transfer the outline and the main detail lines to your drawing paper. Step 2 Hatch the head using your HB pencil. 99
Tips 1. To indicate the stitches holding the panels together, use short, sharp, evenly spaced lines. 2. Shade around the highlights in the eyes as it is difficult to lift out highlights in such a dark area. 3. Get the eyes as dark as possible. 4. Show the stitching on the nose by using dark (2B) broader lies and leaving some white paper shining through in between the stitches. Step 3 Hatch the jersey in the same way as you hatched the cup yesterday. 100
Step 4 Hatch the arms. Tip To show that the arms are bent at the elbows, look carefully at the direction of the planes. There is a sketch at the end of the lesson showing the plane lines for the whole teddy bear, but practice seeing these plane lines for yourself in your reference drawings. Being able to see the plane lines in an object will help you to get the moulding of that object correct. Step 5 Hatch the left hand leg. 101
Tips 1) To show the panels under the feet, add the darker outline where the soles meet the foot. That will create the impression of depth where they meet. 2) To show the soles of the feet are flat, hatch across the entire sole in continuous straight hatches. Step 6 Hatch the body Tips 1) Look out for the lost lines on the sides. 2) The entire body has a darker tonal value as it is not only curving away from the light source, but the height of the jersey is also casting a shadow on the body. 102
Step 7 Hatch the right hand leg. Step 8 Hatch the shadow on the ground to anchor the teddy and then add a rough, light hatching to indicate a table. Tip Don t hatch all the way to the top, stop the table top somewhere just behind the teddy otherwise it won t look like a table, but a wall. By hatching this teddy you have now hatched in every achievable angle. Which means you are now fully equipped to hatch almost any object. 103
What makes a good hatch drawing Why not any drawing? Because not every picture lends itself to hatching. Pictures with a lot of fine detail are very difficult to hatch unless you have been hatching for many years. The best way I have found to add the detail to a hatching drawing is to draw in selected detail and even add touches of shading to the detail. That way the mass of the drawing remains hatched, but distinguishing details like eyes are still shaded. I hope you practice the cross hatching technique so that is can become second nature. It will not only wow the viewer, but also help all your other drawing work because of your heightened awareness of how the planes in each object run. Tomorrow we are going to learn about scumbling, another one of the wow factor techniques. See you then. 104
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