Above are the different shades each different pencil makes. "H" is considered the middle or the basic pencil. It's best to use drawing pencils versus just a regular No. 2 pencil so you can get the correct shades that you want for whatever still life you're drawing and they're cool, so yeah!
First, we practiced creating value with some shading exercises like the ones above.
Now for the drawing! We could either use a still life that our professor brought in, or bring our own (which i did). We created three thumbnail sketches with different compositional arrangements on Newprint paper, then transferred one of the sketches to our real nice paper called Stonehenge. We then turned the lights off and flashed a light over our still life to take a picture of the value differences, so that we would be able to add value to our drawing. Once we drew the contour of it, we followed our pictures and added value to the drawing. As you can see, I wasn't able to get too far with mine in the class session but here's how it looks so far. I do plan on finishing it.
Here are some other examples from some high school students and some of my classmates.
The biggest problem for me is adding the value. I'm more of a contour drawer, so the value part was where i struggled and I'm sure this will be a problem for a lot of students, whether it's them not knowing how to shade the drawing, or just being too lazy to do it. What i have to do in order to be able to add value is start shading in sections from right to left. With my students, i would just encourage them to do the same and also not to rush it. Take their time with each section, if that means covering up the sections they aren't working on and go about it that way.
No comments:
Post a Comment