Drawing Class

 You’ve had to shade white paper using gray pencil lead  What a waste of time! The majority of your object isn’t white.  Today, we’re going to work the opposite way…

And use toned paper Toned paper already has a value to it. When we use gray paper, our midtones are already there for us – we just add highlight and shadow. When we use black paper, our shadow is already there for us – we just add the lighter values.

Still-Life on Toned Paper

 Grab 5-6 interesting items for your table to draw  Be gentle with the materials  Don’t choose the same items you used for your last drawing

 Arrange your items so that they overlap and have balance  Don’t put all of your dark items on one side, etc.  Make it interesting!

 Think about the composition of your drawing  Do you want items going off the page?  How much room do you want around your drawing?  How large should I make my items?

 Draw your largest object first  This way, we know everything else will fit  You can use it to mark scale  Draw LIGHTLY! These marks are guides for us – not something we want to show later

Adding Value Then, using a colored pencil, add in the missing values. Begin your value drawing using Hatch Cross-hatch Scumble Colored pencils don’t blend like our regular pencils, so we don’t need our blending stomps Go SLOWLY. Colored pencil is hard to erase.