How to Create Textures With Pen & Ink
- 1). Practice texture styles using a pen on a sheet of paper. To form a specific shape with lines, use wavy lines or contour lines. Wavy lines are strokes that align in repetitive designs to form a shape, while contour lines are smooth, form-fitting lines. Either of these techniques are great for creating a polished surface of glass or metal and smooth curved objects of any kind.
- 2). Scribble by looping lines in a continuous form overlapping one another. They can be quick scribbles to achieve a tangled appearance. Stippling is the art of forming a design using dots. You can achieve a loose, airy quality by keeping the dots spaced out or get a soft velvet-like look by bringing the dots close together. Textures used in conjunction with one another can create contrast when starting out with one texture and ending with another.
- 3). Use crosshatching to deepen values, create heavy shadows and roughen the texture of the design. Crosshatching lines are two or more lines that intersect with or cross over one another. Use them for creating contrast values and textures.
- 4). Make a value chart using each technique by itself and vary the size of the pen tip when doing so.
- 5). Change the value chart by combining the different techniques to create texture layers.