Monday we are going to learn how to correctly draw a shaded sphere. We will be using lids to draw out a stencil for a circle in the middle of our page. Using your 2-B pencil you will very lighting shade inside the sphere in a circle. We will shade around the circle, moving our paper as we go around. You don't want to create horizontal, diagonal, or vertical strokes when you shade, instead you will slowly go around the circle. When the entire circle is lightly shaded, you will go around it again lightly, added layers of pressure to your page. This will create shadows that is opposite to your light source. A light source is the direction that the light is coming from. The shadows are opposite of the light source. We are going to leave a certain section of the sphere in a light shade where the light source is hitting. Where you shade your shadows, you will leave a strip of light grey for your reflective light. Light bounces off of items that they hit, sometimes creating reflective light near shadows. Reflective light is not a highlight like when light is directly hitting an object, but it is when light indirectly hits on object. You will also add a drop shadow on the ground of the sphere. The drop shadow will be opposite of the sphere.
DO NOTS:
With the sphere, you have to be clean and take your time. Do not touch your graphite and get used to keeping your fingers off of your drawings. Finger grease can cause smudges to your page which ruins your pictures. It's also bad to shade with your fingers and we are not allowed to do that in class. I know when you use your finger and if you do you will have to restart. Make sure there is not overlap or stripes in the sphere, it all should gradient from one value to the next. I also shouldn't see any pencil marks. The sphere also cannot look like a donut, all the sphere needs to be shaded.
This assignment is 10 points. Before you turn it in, you have to get it checked off by me first so I can give you a constructive critique. My critiques help direct you to an A level grade so it's important to listen to them and make corrections if needed.
We will have 2-3 days depending on the pace of the class and how much time it takes to get a pass.
DO NOTS:
With the sphere, you have to be clean and take your time. Do not touch your graphite and get used to keeping your fingers off of your drawings. Finger grease can cause smudges to your page which ruins your pictures. It's also bad to shade with your fingers and we are not allowed to do that in class. I know when you use your finger and if you do you will have to restart. Make sure there is not overlap or stripes in the sphere, it all should gradient from one value to the next. I also shouldn't see any pencil marks. The sphere also cannot look like a donut, all the sphere needs to be shaded.
This assignment is 10 points. Before you turn it in, you have to get it checked off by me first so I can give you a constructive critique. My critiques help direct you to an A level grade so it's important to listen to them and make corrections if needed.
We will have 2-3 days depending on the pace of the class and how much time it takes to get a pass.