How to hold your pencil when you draw to get loose lines, artist tip and technique.

How to hold your pencil when you draw to get loose lines, artist tip and technique.

Great questions I receive from e-mail:

Hi I love your work! Thanks for putting it up, it has inspired me more and I am learning alot from it!

I have a question, I really like how your lines look so fluid, smooth agile and loose.
What is the best way to get the lines to look like that?

When you draw with a regular pencil, where are you gripping your pencil? Are you holding it near the bottom or in the middle? Are you holding the pencil like how you would write or are you using some special technique to get your lines to look that fluid, smooth and loose?

That's depending on how fast or how tight I want to go.

Tip: Loose and quick drawing, hold your pencil further away from the tip, and use your whole should and elbow (no wriste) to get the most natural arche and flow looseness line quality. The bigger the leads and the drawing pad, the better.
***DRAW with YOUR WHOLE ARM and SHOULDER*** Key key key!

Tip: Tight and detail. Hold your pencil closer to the tip to get control and tight accuracy. The smaller the leads the better result.

Once you practice a lot with big pad and BIG arch of whole arm and shoulder drawing...you can translate that into smaller drawing, but it will loose some of the real looseness of the whole arch action of natural body movement.

Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!) Economy for everyone.
Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.

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