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It was in the search for pens for drawing that I made many discoveries. Firstly, the same pens can have completely different names in different stores and books. Secondly, there are an innumerable variety of pens, liners, markers and other drawing tools, and each type has its own characteristics. And thirdly, all this goodness is almost impossible to find in Minsk, and what you can find is several times more expensive than in other countries (even Russia and Lithuania)...

In my material, I will use the names that I ultimately came up with, and at the same time I will illustrate each tool with a photograph - so that you know what to look for (in fact, this is how I buy pens myself :))

Ballpoint pens. Of course, you can draw with them, but they are more good for doodling (see). Since the ink is distributed unevenly due to the ball, even a solid line with constant pressure can be too pale in different areas, or vice versa with excess ink (and it smudges! Yes, it is ballpoint pens that usually smear the most).

One possible application ballpoint pens With bright colors- decoration of already finished black and white drawing color. By the way, “poisonous” (sometimes called neon) colors also work great on black/dark paper. I haven’t seen anything like this in Minsk yet, but I have experience buying from the Chinese. Apparently, such pens can be bought in neighboring countries - in particular in Russia.

Gel pens. They also suffer a little, like ball ones, from the inconstancy of the line, but:

• They make best pens with white, silver and gold ink for drawing on black/craft, colored paper;
• They are sold even in Minsk, although the Chinese have more choice;
• They are very cheap.

Markers. Why not? For example, I just robbed a child of several colored markers and I even liked it. Felt-tip pens, of course, have their own characteristics: for example, if you pass them over the same place twice, the color changes noticeably, the paper becomes too saturated with paint, and some even “pillow” or get very wet. Therefore, it seems to me that felt-tip pens are good for drawing either on thick, smooth paper, or when your movements are already adjusted and confident.

By the way, double-sided markers are convenient:

Liners(in stores they are simply called pens, capillary, gel and God knows what else). An alternative name for these pens is liners: different masters are called differently. Liners are the most convenient and common tool for drawing, as they solve the problem of paint uniformity. Today they are produced in a variety of types.

What is a drawing liner? How to determine if it is a liner? For the skirt - like this:

Liners may differ in thickness: as a rule, it is indicated by a number characterizing the thickness in millimeters. For example, here in the photo there are 0.7, 0.5 and 0.05:

It’s up to you to decide what thickness you need. But practice shows that initial stage It's easier to learn to draw with thick liners. Thin ones are more suitable for small elements inside a large picture.

There are liners different colors. Wherein different thicknesses As a rule, they only make black and brown liners. Colored liners are usually equally thin. Well, or I didn’t come across others :) In Minsk you can find them even in ordinary stationery stores, but I usually found a very poor selection.

Colored liners can be used for:

• Coloring other people's mandalas (I haven't said yet that the most popular on Amazon last year with great triumph was anti-stress coloring book for adults— and it was made using the techniques I’m talking about?!);
• Coloring your black and white drawings;
• Drawings of colored mandalas and other elements.

Unfortunately, such liners are more suitable for drawing/coloring on white paper. For a dark base, they lack saturation and brightness (and for such cases there are other options;) Just about them next time).

Brown liners. I call them craft for myself - because their color is very similar to craft paper. They also come in different thicknesses, just like black ones. And from some manufacturers you can even find a brush liner! True, I haven’t mastered it yet - it was just included in the kit :))

By the way, in nature there are also hybrids, double-sided liners: for example, a tool that has a felt-tip pen on one side and a liner on the other. The good thing about such tools is that you have the same color in both cases. This is convenient when you use a thick line in the main drawing, and draw the details with a thinner one.

Anyone can learn to draw with a pen. Whether a student or a pensioner. Everyone once drew in the margins of notebooks. Some did well, some not so much. Some drew strange images, some skulls, and some little fairies, cuties from manga. And we all enjoyed it.

What do you need to start drawing? Of course, desire and patience. Without these qualities it will be difficult to learn anything in principle.

For any drawing, including with a pen, you need to become familiar with the basics of composition and the basics of drawing. For starters, you can just read it. Drawing theory has never been superfluous, and it is advisable to refresh your memory from time to time. I recently came across a book

If you compare a pen (liner, rapidograph) or a pencil, then this is quite different instruments. With a pencil we can achieve airiness in a drawing, learn how to draw correctly on a sheet of paper (you can always use an eraser) and draw realistic portraits.

A pen, unlike a pencil, disciplines. If you draw it, then you draw it. But this does not mean at all that the pen fewer options maneuver. There are completely different techniques here.

Selecting a tool (handle).

Let's start by choosing a tool (drawing pen). After all, to draw well, you must have a convenient tool, so that, first of all, you like it.

1. The best one to draw is the one that doesn’t drip, always writes, and draws without obvious effort. It is easy and convenient to draw with this pen.

If you choose between ballpoint and gel pen, then it’s better to choose the second one. I for a long time I drew with a gel pen. Most of my drawings before 2012 were drawn by her.

There are several tricks to vary the thickness of the gel pen line. If the drawing is placed on a stack of paper, the lines will be thicker. And if you put the sheet on glass or a bare table, the lines will be thinner.

2. Another option is liner or rapidograph. If a gel pen may not write over a pencil or for some reason does not want to work on the edges of the sheet, then a liner writes always and everywhere. practically does not get dirty, lays down softly, without unnecessary effort. Of course, it costs 4 times more than a pen and is not always needed. But if you still decide to buy, then it is better to take liners from Uni and Sakura. Liners have different thicknesses.

My preferences for tool thickness are:

a) the main drawing will be convenient to draw with a 0.3 mm liner;

b) objects in the background - 0.1 mm;

c) and if you decide to “bring it black,” then 0.8 mm will do.

3. The third option is . Many foreign illustrators, such as Matthias Adolfson and . I use a hero 901 fountain pen for sketching and continue to use a gel pen for graphics.

Paper

Any paper will do. You can get a notebook with thick sheets so that you can draw on both sides. I have several types of notebooks. This is a watercolor notebook on a spring, moleskine, ordinary sheets for a printer, fastened with a metal spring, and which I sewed with my own hands. What's convenient about a notebook is that it's always at hand. Just don't take notebooks with textured paper. The texture is more suitable for watercolors. And for a full-fledged drawing, a regular A4 or A3 sheet, as well as any smooth thick paper, is suitable.

In 2017 I painted fountain pen on textured paper. The result was also pleasing, but it was still better on a smooth one.

Drawing process

1. Usually, when drawing with a pen, I don't sketch with a pencil. There are exceptions when you need to draw complex architectural buildings such as a city, streets, interiors and others complex objects. Everything that should correspond to reality.

To make outlines for the future drawing and avoid the fact that the drawing will ultimately not fit on the sheet, you can use dots. If we draw thin lines with a pencil, then with a pen we can put dots. And if you tint the drawing, the dots will merge with the main landscape and will not be conspicuous. But, of course, you can make a sketch in pencil, no one forbids it.

2. The drawing process itself should be fast. Draw lines quickly and confidently, even if the drawing turns out to be crooked. Curved drawings can be very lively and interesting. In any case, you need to get your hand used to the instrument. Don't stay in one place for too long.

Prepare more paper and make one sketch after another. Always finish a drawing, even if you don't like it. In the end it can turn out very interesting.

3. What to draw? Draw everything you see. Start with ordinary objects, a lamp, a teapot, a mug, a computer, a cat, a dog, a chimpanzee. You can also draw while sitting at home. Exit to Fresh air and drawing there would also be a good idea. Make your drawings more complex over time. Draw still lifes, interiors, streets, people. Let your notebook always be with you. The main thing is practice and more practice.

4. Don't evaluate yourself after each drawing. Turn off your inner critic. One drawing doesn't mean anything. Build up more luggage. At first everything will turn out clumsy and ugly. As our drawing teacher said: “quantity will smoothly develop into quality.” Patience and perseverance will help us here.

Southern Bay of Sevastopol. Series of sketches

Toning

1. Toning can be different. You can make a drawing in black and white (without gray tones).

2. Can be done with intersecting lines. The lines are superimposed one on one, changing direction. This tinting option will give you many shades of gray.

It all seems very complicated, but at the same time so simple. If you put enough effort into it every day, everything will work out.

Magic fish. Master class on drawing with a gel pen.

Everyone can draw elementary forms, but, ultimately, it is from them that the picture is created. Many graphic elements are simple and accessible to children: circle, square, triangle, dot, wavy line, three crossed lines (snowflake) and others.
Despite the simplicity of the elements, a gel pen can create very interesting pictures, similar to graphics, Chinese or Japanese painting(drawing "Tree of Life"). The drawing is laconic and complete.
And so, let's get down to our work.
1. Let's draw a fish like this.

Draw on a piece of paper with a simple pencil our fish. Here we must remember that a gel pen does not draw well with a pencil, so we draw the outline with a simple pencil with a very thin, maybe even a broken line.

Drawing with gel pens – interesting activity. It does not require any special artistic talents or skills; only perseverance and precision of movements are important. And the drawings turn out interesting.

Drawing theme: “Cat under the stars.” We were planning a simple cat, but after looking at the result, we concluded: the cat, of course, is not simple, but fabulous. This drawing is even for a preschooler preparatory group can't handle it alone. Our cat under the stars was drawn by an adult and a 6.5 year old child. And for schoolchildren, the picture, if performed independently, is quite within their capabilities.

How and on what to draw with gel pens, where to start, you can read in detail in this article. So…

Drawing of a cat with black gel pen

The cat will be black and white, but if desired, it can be easily colored with colored pens or markers.

Sequence of work

1. Draw a simple sketch hard pencil thin line without pressing or leaving marks on the paper. The pencil is erased when drawing is completed. The sketch shows the main details of the drawing: a sleeping cat, a bird, a tree sprout, the sun and the moon. We'll add stars later. As you can see, all the figures are stylized. Anyone can portray any of them.

2. Outline the main details of the drawing with a black gel pen. The usual sequence is from top to bottom, so as not to smudge undried lines. In our drawing it is broken, since we really wanted to decorate the cat first. This is not important for those who draw in the right hemisphere way. We simply turned the picture upside down and continued working. The muzzle and paws with claws are drawn. You can come up with whatever patterns you want. The question arose: why are the moon and the sun present at the same time? This is understandable: the country is fabulous. We wanted to draw a tree, but it turned out to be a sprout to reduce the amount of work for the child.

3. We continue to decorate the cat and the tree. The tree will look better if you draw circles instead of dots. Our leaf circles turned out to be small, more like dots, which is what we turned them into.

4. The painting must be limited in space by a frame. We took the simplest zigzag, supplemented with dots inside and outside. We close the corners of the picture with arcs. The artist Dmitry Rybin, who is engaged in “energy” drawing, claims that energy leaves the picture through the corners. Let's draw starry sky. The stars are large, 6-7 rays.

5. In the real sky there are stars of different sizes. We do the same, so we add small stars like snowflakes from three crossed lines. Even smaller stars can be scattered throughout the remaining unoccupied surface. Draw them with dots. Our picture is quite light and transparent. And if you put star dots with a black gel pen, then it will be night without any coloring.

The picture is ready. When drawing with gel pens, you need to make sure that even the smallest dots and details do not overlap each other or merge. All the irregularities, mistakes that make children's drawing(and not only for children) are less important. They somehow hide behind the quantity small parts. From what seems to be crooked and lopsided, something very cute turns out.

We continue to talk about how to teach a child to draw. Does your child refuse to draw with pencils or paints? This is because his shoulder girdle muscles are poorly developed.

You have to press down on the pencil and hold the brush suspended, it’s difficult. Try inviting him to draw with a gel pen. The line turns out clear and bright, it goes easily. The drawing with a gel pen is unique and beautiful.

When we say that this is unconventional drawing, many are surprised: what is unconventional about an ordinary gel pen? It's not the pen, but the drawing method itself.

The artist Dmitry Rybin works in this technique. His technique is called “Mystical Gel Pen Graphics”. In his opinion, anyone can learn such unconventional drawing. And for children, the technique of drawing with helium pens is suitable because by mastering it, you can learn to draw from scratch.

Gel pen drawing technique

Drawing according to Dmitry Rybin’s method is something between graphics and ornament (this is also suitable for working with children). Looks like zenart. This is a repetition of elementary forms, and not the creation of a “masterpiece” or a highly artistic painting.

Everyone can draw elementary forms, but, ultimately, it is from them that the picture is created. Many graphic elements are simple and accessible to children: circle, square, triangle, dot, wavy line, three crossed lines (snowflake) and others.

Despite the simplicity of the elements, very interesting pictures are obtained, similar to graphics, Chinese or Japanese painting (drawing "Tree of Life"). The drawing is laconic and complete.

Materials and tools

What materials will non-traditional drawing with gel pens require?

Pens

1. Regular gel pens sold in any store stationery. Usually they draw with black paste on white paper. But if you want to draw color picture, you can purchase sets of colored pens.
2. Capillary pens, if there are no gel pens. For capillary pens, you need to select paper. On some types of paper, ink bleeds. Essentially this is the same felt-tip pen with a very thin rod. It has a rod inside, like a felt-tip pen. For a pen that doesn’t write well, remember the refill a little – the pen will still serve. You can also use ordinary felt-tip pens for coloring.
3. When choosing handles, the following circumstance should be taken into account. Preschoolers or schoolchildren with impaired motor skills tend to initially put excessive pressure on the pen when drawing. In this case, capillary pens fail faster. Helium ones are preferable.

Paper

Paper white, smooth, dense. A piece of whatman paper size A5 is best. Sometimes, without really thinking about it, people buy sketchbooks. When choosing, pay attention to the quality of the paper.

Drawing Rules

1. The line must be continuous (therefore, with older preschoolers, you should first draw short lines). Anxious children tend to circle the same pattern element over and over again. There should be one line. No shading. The exercise will provide smooth lines on the letter.
2. Each element should be clear and separate, without merging with other elements.
3. We outline the template, gradually moving from top to bottom, trying not to smear what we have drawn.

Where to begin

You can start working with children from the age of 6, but this kind of drawing works best for schoolchildren. Let's remember ourselves, most of us in our school and student days drew something similar, bored in class.

We start by outlining the templates. The template could be contour drawing subject ( simple coloring book with a small number of parts will do). Note! A helium pen does not draw well with a pencil, so we draw the outline with a simple pencil, a very thin, maybe even a broken line.

A small child cannot draw like this; an adult draws the template. Or it prints out on a printer with a faint line. A photocopied picture will also not work for the same reason as a pencil. We simply scanned the samples and printed them out.

The child learned to trace the template carefully and beautifully. Let's make the job more difficult. Divide a sheet of paper vertically into two fields. On the right is the outline template, on the left is empty place. We invite the child to first trace the template, and then copy the pattern on the left in the free space. The work is difficult, but doable. At first, the copy will be deformed in shape or size (usually small). With the acquisition of skill and training of the eye, the quality of the copy improves.