Brush Pen Shading Techniques For Beginners - A Guide for Novices

Learn expert tips and tricks to help you discover the full potential of your brush pens. With their versatility and fluidity, brush pens offer a unique experience that allows you to create bold lines, expressive strokes, and detailed textures. Brush pens are perfect for creating dynamic illustrations and adding intricate details to your drawings or sketches. In this video, we will cover how I use the Pentel brush pen with synthetic bristles to achieve various effects in my artwork.

We'll cover shading various shading techniques that are easy to learn. We'll also cover how to create textures and add depth and dimension to your drawings with hatching, cross-hatching and stippling.

Materials I used:

• Canson Bristol smooth paper
• Pentel brush pen
• Dr Ph Martin India Ink

Image reference:

https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-white-bird-in-close-up-photography-KdWrhfaSauc

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