Howtodrawwool In this tutorial you'll learn how todraw a woolen sweater or wool in general. Just find a suitable reference you want todraw or use the one from this tutorial and follow the five steps. You're going to need just three kinds of pencil, for example H, 2B and 5B. That's all. If you like the woolen sweater in the drawing of Dakota Fanning, you'll like to learn howtodraw it. So let's get started now. Howtodrawwool quickly and easily Step 1: Basic grid You can notice that the surface of clothes is hardly ever completely flat. Therefore you should take into account its curvature and find a way to describe it. Here comes the advice. Imagine several equidistant parallel lines on the surface of clothes. There may be some tracks to help you, like stitches, patterns and so on. Try to copy the imaginary lines onto your canvas (you may use an H-pencil). These will serve as basic guidelines for further work. outline basic guidelines Step 2: Guidelines Now that you're done with basic guidelines, you can add some more lines which actually represent the pattern on the sweater. Take the H-pencil again. Make these lines parallel to guidelines, but in one direction only. Feel free to make them a little bit thicker and rugged this time. The space between each of them should be approximately equal to their thickness. parallel guidelines parallel guidelines (zoomed) Step 3: Mid-tone shadow If you are quite satisfied with your basic pattern, it is time to let wool grow out of it. First, you have to decide where position of a light source is. Let's assume that our light source is above (for simplicity) and the light comes in the direction that is marked by the arrow in the picture below. Remember this direction, because you're going to need it for the very next step. Imagine that the light shines and wool, which is not there yet, casts shadows on itself. The shadows are kind of clustered alongside imaginary lines perpendicular to the direction of the light. It's like you would look at a deciduous forest from the air - the tree tops cast shadow on themselves too. It may seem unusual, but we'll start with mid-tone shadows, not the mildest ones. So take your 2B-pencil. Now making the move described in the next picture try todraw uneven and randomly large clusters. Your hand slowly moves in direction perpendicular to the direction of the light - that's why we needed to remember the direction. However, you should take into account the curvature of the surface at the same time, so when there is some rolling on the surface, the clusters are a bit contracted to make feel of plasticity. First, you have to decide where position of a light source is. Then draw uneven and randomly large clusters. Your hand slowly moves in direction perpendicular to the direction of the light. If you want, you can make just a certain part, not the whole area, and continue with the step number 4. Step 4: Dark shadow Now take your 5B pencil. Making the same moves as explained above draw smaller clusters on the bottom of the previous ones. These are darker shadows. dark shadows dark shadows (zoomed) Step 5: Mild shadow As you have finished the dark shadows, you can see, that there is still a lot of blank space between clusters. So take your H-pencil and fill some space. You may do it quite randomly or fill those gaps where you've left too much of white paper. You may still use the "cluster" technique described above. However, do not fill all the white space, because the effect of plasticity would fade out. mild shadows mild shadows (zoomed) Step 6: Global shading & Adding details At this point the wool looks quite well. Nevertheless, by adding some detail, we can make it even more better. You can shade it with 2B-pencil as if the fabric was just plain. On the other hand, use a rubber eraser to brighten some parts as shown in the picture below. And the final step is todraw little uneven dark dots with your 5B-pencil. It adds some more detail and the wool looks more realistically. Now we are finished. darkening and brightening some parts adding some details Bonus material As you may notice, the sweater is not complete. I didn't want to involve other belongings in this tutorial. So here are some more pictures, where you can see howto continue with stitches for instance. . How to draw wool In this tutorial you'll learn how to draw a woolen sweater or wool in general. Just find a suitable reference you want to draw or use the one from this tutorial. going to need just three kinds of pencil, for example H, 2B and 5B. That's all. If you like the woolen sweater in the drawing of Dakota Fanning, you'll like to learn how to draw it started now. How to draw wool quickly and easily Step 1: Basic grid You can notice that the surface of clothes is hardly ever completely flat. Therefore you should take into account its