Fudging and Squirling- Part 4
The last three parts of this series of four articles about the seemingly arcane world of fudging and squirling were all about getting us to this point on the path. We can now explore in a practical and visual way the more advanced “finishing off” pencil techniques called squirling and how to help make all the laboriously applied and minutely adjusted shapes and tones look like three dimensional reality with a clean eraser by fudging them.
More than One Way to Skin a Cat
Only experience will show you which actual squirling and/or fudging technique to use in any given situation but you’ll find that if you have gone to the trouble of drawing a solid foundation of accurate shapes, details, and carefully hatched starter tones to apply these techniques to you will find it a quite enjoyable, satisfying, and natural experience. There are various ways to choose from, all produce different results used in various different situations. Here are a few broad examples.
One Line Hatching Squirling
This is probably the most basic form of squirling and is used in general situations when trying to ‘normalise’ and gently deepen the tone in an area of lots of small details. I think of it as ‘one line hatching’ (figure 2) as all the same
