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Drawing From Life Workshop - Creating realistic, three dimensional form with value (or shading.)
by Carol Rosinski
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I'd like you to set up your own still life and draw from it as you follow along with the steps I recorded while working from a similar still life. Here are the supplies you'll need.
- A light colored terrycloth towel without any design, a flat area to arrange the towel on (a TV tray would work well) and a strong light source that you can adjust to shine on the subject from the side and slightly above it.
- A 4B pencil and a B pencil (You can substitute similar grades of pencils.)
- A Sharpener
- A kneaded eraser
- Paper with a texture that allows you to create a texture similar to the towel's. (I'll explain how to do that in the first step of the lesson, but I used Canson's drawing paper.)
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Before we get Started
In drawing, three-dimensional form is created with areas of light and dark value or highlight and shadow. This process is also referred to as "shading" a subject. To help you understand how value creates form, I created a "value map" of my own towel's shadow and highlight areas. I outlined these major value areas and marked each one with the number it was closest to on a "graduated grayscale." I saw seven clearly different values and I've included a graduated grayscale made up of those values. I'll be referring to the numbers on the grayscale and value map later on.
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Top Left – completed drawing.
Bottom Right – completed drawing with a "value map" of the highlight and shadow areas superimposed over it.
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"Graduated grayscale" made up of the values of my towel drawing.
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Working from Dark to Light
After the line drawing step, I drew this towel by hatching in the darkest value areas first, hatching in the lighter values next, and then repeating that dark to light progression as I refined the drawing in the later steps. I worked this way deliberately so you could clearly see what I did in each step. I suggest that, for at least this lesson, you work in the same way. |
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