Mark Making Techniques

Mark making Techniques

During a lesson, as a class we were introduced to mark making, to get away from the realistic drawing and focusing more on marks to get our piece across, by creating a piece but not being able to tell necessary what the object was.
This page I used a ring as my inspiration. The connection it has to my journey is that my great granddad was a gambler and I found out from my grandma that he went on the Burma Trek with ruby’s sewn into his clothes. I couldn’t find any red gems, but I found a ring with blue, that I included in my matchbox. I used a different mark making technique for each of the sections. The first one it stippling, This technique can be effective but is very time consuming I think is could be effective with wet mediums also. Next was hatching, I decided to leave some blank, partly due to time restraints but I'm pleased with how it came out overall. Next was lines, you can get a variety of depth with these by varying the closeness or darkness of the pencil lines. Scribbles, which is the fourth one I find quite interesting as the more layers I added, the more depth I could achieve. Beginning the second row is contour lines, I'd never tried this before but I found it quite effective, By adding colour or darker lines could make it more pleasing to the eye, but I think it could be quite effective just in one colour. Next is zigzags, I thought this was quite similar to the lines but they overlapped more, making it easier to achieve a smooth gradient. One I found quite interesting was dots and dashes, I struggled however to add much depth to this, but the random lines complement the shorter lines and dots also. The spirals were quite effective in adding depth and tone as the harder I pressed the pencil, or closer together the lines were, the darker the spiral came out.
The first on the last row is wavy lines, it looks very fluid but I still managed to create some angles and gradients. Next was scratchy lines, I found this came across quite harsh trying to achieve the 'scratchy' look, Second last was cross hatching, I've never really liked this technique as I find it too harsh and structured, but I think if used well it can be very effective. Finally, was loose lines, I found the fluidness of how this came out quite pleasing and I think I'd use this technique again.
  Overall I enjoyed leaning about mark making as I think it would make my work look more abstract, which is what I want to focus on more, instead of realism.

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