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 TRICK: When working with an area of parallel black and white lines, you may find they start vibrating, making it hard for you to focus. To overcome this, you have to train your eye to focus on a small area. TIP: For good reproduction, when a value is more than 50 percent, work in reverse. Scratch out a clean white line to lighten the areas as needed. A cross hatch or stipple artist, keeps building up the value by crossing lines or placing dots closer together. This looks right to the eye, but when printed, many of the very tiny lines fill in, so the area gets darker, kind of blotchy. |
The pencil that was transferred to the scratchboard is nothing more than a map, showing where things are located. I will decide how dark or light to make areas while working with the pen and scratching tools. I work in one area at a time, usually not finishing it completely. I put in solid black for areas of over 50 percent black and parallel lines that follow a contour for the mid tones, and leave pure white for values of 20 percent and less. The most important part of this stage are the contour lines. Care must be taken to keep the lines evenly spaced with about a 30 percent value. Following the contour of shapes helps to define the shape of an object. You can also use the contour lines to make the illustration more graceful. I keep using that word, graceful. That's because a flowing, graceful line is more interesting than a straight line. I use Koh-i-noor
technical pens, 3x0 to 4, using 2x0 the most. Iuse scratchboard knives
when working on Esddee scratchboard and X-acto knives when working on
lesser grades of SB.
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