![]() It’s also great for when you are making visual comparisons on the surface and laying out the composition. This grip is perfect for creating light and delicate marks. The pencil is held upright and the back edge rests on the crease between your index finger and the base of your thumb. With the “paint brush” grip, the pencil is held in a similar manner to holding a paint brush. You can also create the greatest variety of marks using this grip as well. For drawing large, this grip is – by far, one of the best. This grip is perfect for loose marks and laying out drawing for this very reason. This is essential to “loosening up” with your drawing, which will actually lead to better drawing. Now, why is this grip my favorite? This grip forces you to draw with your shoulder instead of just your wrist. Holding the pencil in this manner allows for the marks to originate from side of the exposed graphite (or charcoal, or colored pencil), instead of the just the tip. The pencil is held loosely between the index finger and the thumb, while the other fingers act to stabilize the pencil. Not many people know that I’m a drummer and this grip is very similar to how one should hold a drumstick. I’m calling this grip “The Drumstick Grip”. It’s not the grip that I use most often, but it’s one that encourages better drawing. Now this grip is favorite for a couple of reasons. Pencil Grip # 2 – The Drumstick Grip (My Favorite) There is quite a lot of control with this grip, which makes it great for details. The tip of the pencil is what makes contact with the surface. But using this grip only limits what we can do with our drawings. It’s just natural to grab a pencil in the way that we are most familiar. When I sit down to draw something, I’ll usually hold the pencil with this grip initially. I’ll admit, this is still my “go to” grip. For many people, this is the only grip that is used for drawing. This is the way that most of us have learned how to grip a pencil from the time we first started learning how to write. The traditional grip is exactly what the title suggests. So, let’s look at a few ways that you can hold your pencil to create different marks in your drawing… Pencil Grip #1 – Traditional Beyond this however, expanding the possibles of how the pencil is held will lead to new ways of making marks, expanding our drawing possibilities. In fact, Plato even acknowledged the importance of variety in artistic composition.īy holding the pencil in different ways, we can instantly create variety in our drawings. It keeps us exploring the picture plane and makes our viewers more engaged in what we produce. Variety, one of the eight principles of art, creates interest in our drawings. It’s also no secret that variety is an important factor in our drawings. By holding the pencil the same way – all of the time – in all of your drawings – you are limiting what is possible as far as mark-making goes. It’s no secret that the way in which you hold your drawing pencil will affect the marks that you make on the drawing surface. But once I opened myself up to holding the pencil in different positions, my drawing greatly improved. The only downside I’ve noticed is that if you press down firmly on the screen, the grip can start to slide a bit, so I usually use these when I’m doing texturing or shading that doesn’t require lots of pressure.It took quite a while for to me to understand the importance of drawing with different grips. I love these because they let you open up your fingers a little bit, so you aren’t gripping such a tiny bar so tightly. The first one is a set of grips that flare out at the base. If my hand is always gripping the pencil in the exact same way, it eventually leads to some hand cramps or wrist pain, so these days I change out my pencil grips every week or so to force myself to use different hand positions. The first thing I like to change often is my pencil grips. I’ve been REALLY bad at doing this in the past, so this year I am making the ergonomics of my workspace a priority! The best way to avoid getting these aches and pains is to change up your drawing position as often as possible. ![]() I spend so many hours drawing on my iPad that I truly know the wrist and neck pains that can come from drawing in one position for too long. ![]()
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