Kinds of mark making include hatching, cross hatching, scribbling, shading, made marks and patterns. These can be applied accurately and precisely or in a more suggested, stylised way. The pressure, stroke, direction and gesture of line and mark can give different results. It's important to experiment with these whilst keeping up a speed and fluidity with your line.
Mark making in itself was super fun! I liked messing around with materials and seeing what kind of marks i could make, this kind of experimentation is really fun for me and really helps me to engage with my work more. Unfortunately, trying to apply this to even the simplest of line drawings sucked! I've not worked with tone in this way before, I used to be a stippling fanatic, making detailed drawings using line and dots but this way was some messy and expressive and completely took me out of my comfort zone. I think I definitely still need to develop this way of image-making, it was interesting but really tricky for me to grasp.
I think I much prefer the monochrome drawings, it was easier to differentiate between lighter and darker areas and I was really liking drawing in biro for a change. I stuck to a simple image to try and add tone to because I didn't want to confuse or overcomplicate things for myself or just get pissed off at the task and give up on it. I think I'd prefer mark making to create tone in smaller areas, rather than creating a whole image out of line and tone, maybe I could have just used little marks dotted about the image to suggest tone rather than going for the whole sha-bang.
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