Traditional sketching can be divided into: line-based sketching, chiaroscuro-based sketching, and sketching that combines lines and light and shade. These three forms of sketching are also the forms of sketching that art students are more exposed to.
1. Sketches based on light and shade
It is characterized by a strong sense of light, a strong sense of volume, and a strong picture atmosphere.
Typical of the chiaroscuro masters is Miller. Unlike Schiller's pure lines, Miller's sketches can hardly see lines with independent action, and the charcoal marks that appear in Miller's works without exception exist for the shaping of the entire picture atmosphere, without independence, without independent aesthetic value, but only part of the whole.
Miller loves the land, and almost all of his works are inseparable from the land, and the atmosphere of land and labor is permeated. There is no decoration, not gorgeous, very simple, rustic conveying the farming scene he wants to express.
Miller's sketches, especially the twilight scenes, are very strong, which is a unique light and shadow effect of chiaroscuro sketches, and it is also a great place for the master.
2. Line-based sketching
The sketching characteristics of line-based sketching are relatively clean pictures, rich line variations, and relatively strong flatness and decoration. The most typical of the line-based sketch masters is Egon Schiller.
Schiller's sketches are almost all pure charcoal lines, often highlighting the head and hands, and deeply portraying the head and hands to express the character's temperament.
Schiller's sketches pay great attention to the blank space of the picture, virtualizing most of the unimportant parts of the characters, really portraying the head and hands of the characters, and the rest of the blank, with a very strong virtual-real relationship, and a very concentrated picture focus.
Schiller uses lines very spontaneously and freely, but the expressiveness is extremely strong, a simple charcoal pen flows freely under his hands to create a rich texture and character temperament on the picture; without drawing a complete character dynamic, it has been fully conveyed to the viewer, which is where the master lies.
3. Sketching combining lines and light and shade
The sketching characteristics of combining lines and light and shade are not only light, volume and strong picture atmosphere, but also rich and ornamental lines and decoration. The master of sketching who combines lines and light and shade is Ingres.
Angle's sketches generally emphasize the head, and the in-depth light and shade depiction of the character's head is carried out, and the rest of the character and background are outlined with lines, and only a little light and dark meaning is added to the dark side.
Ingres's sketches not only highlight the head that represents the character's temperament, but also fully present other parts, but the primary and secondary are clear, and the virtual reality is measured. It is a typical representative of the sketch form that combines line and light and shade, and through Ingres's work, we can clearly feel the advantages of the sketch form that combines line and light and shade.