The hand motion is almost the same as drawing a five-pointed star, only you lift your pen after each line and move your hand along the paper, adding random squiggles and arcs. The pen skips and jumps back and forth, and in little scribble motions. This technique is similar to a continuous scribble, only the pen is lifted off the paper in the same manner stipple is created. I simply stumbled upon it during the natural evolution of my experience. As a self-taught artist, I don’t know if “broken scribble” is an industry method that’s taught or practiced. For my purposes this is fine, but most stipplers will confirm that this is, in most cases, a fatal error to a drawing done in pure stipple.īroken Scribble – This my “secret ingredient” for achieving the softness to my foliage. As you can see, my example is not a “true” stipple, as I tend to inadvertantly add an occasional line segment, disrupting the smooth flow of dots. Stipple – I don’t use this as a stand-alone method, but I apply it as an additional layer on top of existing scribble textures or as a “blending tool”. I use a combination of the following techniques.Ĭontinuous Scribble – This is a basic scribble done using a single continuous line, without lifting your pen.