Graphite reduction
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The document discusses techniques for drawing with graphite focusing on shapes and values. Students learn to draw by defining large shapes based on values, being sensitive to light and dark values. Exercises include value scales to teach coating paper evenly and creating a range of values, and value spheres to work from a sketch while defining lighter and darker values without outlines and adding highlights. The goal is to have students shape values correctly then tackle dark values and use an eraser to define edges clearly without hard outlines.
Graphite reduction
- 1. Graphite Reduction Drawing with a Focus on Shape & Value
- 2. •Draw by large shapes based on What do the students learn values. •Sensitivity to light and dark from this technique? values.
- 3. Begin with Mini-Labs VALUE SCALES
- 4. Learning Goals for the Value Scales: • Coating the paper evenly and to a medium-dark value • How to create darker values that match the texture • How to create light values • How to make lightest two values
- 5. Mini-Lab 2 VALUE SPHERE
- 6. Learning Goals for the Value Spheres: • Working from a sketch • Beginning the drawing using shapes of the lighter values • Darkening the darker values • Cleaning up edges without using dark outlines • Shadows have multiple values • Adding whites and highlights
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- 9. Show how fortune cookies are actually made and talk about the cultural influence of fortune cookies.
- 10. Each table has its own mini-still life. There is more control over the still life and it can be stored for the next class easily.
- 11. Have the students focus on erasing away for the white mat board.
- 12. Try to have the students avoid just drawing with the eraser in a “reverse sketch.”
- 13. Once the values are shaped correctly, the dark values can be tackled.
- 14. Once the light values are erased down and the dark values darkened, then focus on using a hard eraser to make the edges crisper.
- 15. Forms start to come into focus as the students use their hard erasers.
- 16. Clean up the edges by using a pencil line and then incorporating the line into the shadows to prevent hard outlines.
- 17. Add the white chalk for the lightest values as late as possible so the chalk doesn’t mix too much with the graphite. Use a dark pencil to add finishing details.