Hey, guys! Welcome back to another episode of Art Lab. đ
Today I want to show you how to draw âspaghetti mountains,â which is what I decided to call this certain doodling technique. đ I think it looks so neat in the end, and itâs quite fun and relaxing to draw.
Art Inspiration:
Isnât this gorgeous? I love it! I made a similar piece using this as inspiration, and also made you guys a little tutorial if youâd like to try it yourself. đ
Materials Needed:
- Paper, an ATC, canvas, etc.
- Black pens or markers (I used varying sizes of Micron pens + a black brush pen)
- A white gel pen (optional)
- Some time
1. Draw some jagged lines for mountain ridges with your thickest pen (I made the lines thicker later). Make some ridges in the background and foreground.
2. Take your second thickest pen and start filling the first mountain with âspaghetti.â XD Draw some curvy lines that all start and end at the same point, and follow each other closely. Like so.
3. Add more spaghetti in a different direction, and connecting to the noodles you already drew.
4. Keep adding more spaghetti in all different directions until you fill the whole mountain ridge.
5. Now for the ridge behind it. Use a slightly thinner pen to show perspective, because things (like spaghetti) look smaller when farther away.
6. Keep it up! After you finish that ridge, move onto the one behind, using a thinner pen each time and making the lines close together. Doesnât it look so neat thus far?
7. Add a sun behind the last ridge. I left a white space, but you wouldnât have to. đ
8. Next weâre going to make the âraysâ of the sun. Using your thickest pen, fill in the space above the sun with rows of dots or ovals.
9. Make the dots in each new row bigger than the lastâŚ
10. Ta-daa! Youâve filled the whole page!
11. You can definitely leave it like that, but I added a bit more embellishment with a white gel pen. First I colored in the sun black, (weird, Iâve never seen a black sun before, have you? XD), and then rimmed it with dainty white dots.
12. And lastly, I added some white circles to the black dots, just to break things up a bit.
13. Ta-daa! Youâre finished!
What do you think? I think⌠strange but neat. đ I hope you get a chance to try this, because itâs quite fun and I love the end result.
If you DO make art inspired by this post, weâd love to see it! Check out this page to see how you can help us fill our gallery.
Thanks for reading, dears, and have fun making art! đ
***Allison***
Thatâs one thing you have to be careful of when using gel pens.)
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