Shading with PaperDrawing Class

Thus Far in 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.

Today’s Experimental Drawing

Still-Life on Toned Paper

First Step

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

Second Step

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!

Beginning Your Drawings 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?

Putting Objects In

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.