Value Practice – Cranes

Objective:

Students will practice shading and value by drawing from life and creating a composition.

Requirements:

  • Draw the origami crane 4 times
    • Change the perspective each time
    • Draw all 4 lightly in pencil
    • Make it look interesting
    • Overlap
    • Fill up the paper, drawings go off all 4 sides
    • Draw them large, not life-size.
  • Shade 3 cranes in graphite pencil
    • shading in the darker areas
    • make smooth transitions to the lighter areas
    • give the cranes a look of 3-dimensional form.
  • Shade 1 crane in colored pencil
    • use the colored pencil shading chart to add shading and depth starting with yellow as the lightest value.
    • use at least 3 colors from light to dark

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