Practice Drawing a Still Life

Video Transcript

"Ok, welcome back. Now, with the coquille board, it's not like your regular paper, so I would encourage you to, when you get your first sheet, just pick an area of this paper and you can practice with a regular pencil first. And just get used to what kind of textures this paper gives you. And just kind of practice from going from a light shade to a mid grade to mid dark. And then from the mid dark to dark. You'll notice that the harder I press on the pencil the darker I get. I can go to one of the blackest blacks that I can get on paper with a number two pencil. Now, with the prism color, I can do the same thing. I can just really kind of just lightly going across the paper. And then I'm steadily, I'm adding pressure. And then you'll see that you can get really super dark with the color pencil. It's pretty awesome. A number two, just a regular lead pencil doesn't get that black. Now notice you'll be able to see the differences. And then also take time to practice laying. If you're going to do a bottle or something you can just kind of practice on the side and get your composition how you want it. And see how the pencil reacts to the paper. And just do it really light. When you're laying it out you want to get used to just drawing lightly on the paper because once it gets down between the grains it will pick up but I just like to go lightly when I'm laying out my drawing. And that's practicing on a coquille board."