tailieunhanh - Coming Out of the Dark

Tài liệu tham khảo chuyên nghành hội họa, mỹ thuật - Coming Out of the Dark | COMING OUT OF THE DARK Brenda Hoddinott G-02 BEGINNER SHADING FORMS In this lesson you draw the three-dimensional form of a sphere with a focus on light shadows and a cast shadow. The medium is charcoal and erasers are the drawing tools. The technique of taking away values rather than adding them is very popular in art classes especially still life and figure drawing. Many beginners love this method because it focuses on creating light and dark values separately rather than rendering a full range of values all at once. This project is divided into the following two sections DRAWING WITH ERASERS Most artists are familiar with drawing dark values on a light surface. However as you will soon see you can also draw light values on a dark surface by using an eraser or erasers . In this section you experiment with two different types of erasers as drawing tools. COMING OUT OF THE DARK I take you step-by-step through a drawing of a spherical form. You draw light with erasers and shadows with pencils. In other words you take away values rather than adding them Form as applied to drawing is the illusion of the threedimensional structure of a shape such as a circle square or triangle created in a drawing with shading and or perspective. Suggested drawing supplies include a 2B or 4B charcoal stick 2B or 4B charcoal pencil vinyl eraser kneaded eraser heavy white drawing or watercolor paper and paper towels. 7 PAGES - 7 ILLUSTRATIONS This project is recommended for artists from age 10 to adult as well as home schooling academic and recreational fine art educators. Published by Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers Halifax NS Canada - Revised 2006 2 DRAWING WITH ERASERS Most artists are familiar with drawing dark values on a light surface. However as you will soon see you can also draw light values on a dark surface by using an eraser or erasers . Values are different shades of gray created in a drawing by various means such as varying both the density of the shading lines and the .