COLLABORATIVE VALUE PORTRAITS

Art StudioMs. Crisman

Definitions• Value:

-how light or dark an object is (or appears to be)

• Portrait: -An image of someone’s face.

• Collaborate: -to work with other artists

Drawing Value

One of the most common ways to learn about value is to make a value scale

Value scales are named by how many boxes there are

Below is a six-part value scale

Value Scales

This is a 10-part Value Scale

Why would an artist need 10-parts?

Graphite Grading System

B = BlackH = Hard F = Fine HB = No. 2Which pencil would you use to create a

dark shade?Which pencil would you use to create a

highlight?Which pencil would you use to complete a

Scantron test?

Why add value?Value turns Shapes….

…into Forms!

Shading Techniques

Hatching Cross-Hatching Blending Stippling

Hatching /Cross Hatching

How would you create the varied areas of light and dark?By changing the PRESSURE of your pencil!

Blending

Avoid using your finger while blending. The oils from your skin stain the paper and cannot

be erased!

Stippling

If you are heard “stabbing” the paper rather than stippling, you are drawing incorrectly.

Videos

Shading Techniques:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeIf-fpawo&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Stippling Video:

http://vimeo.com/33091687

Materials

Graphite Graded Pencil

System

Kneaded Erasers Blending

stumps and Tortillions

What is cropping?

Cropping is when you zoom into or cut out a piece of information from your artwork.

Cropping

What is Gridding?Gridding is a system used to enlarge a work of art. Gridding keeps all of your proportions the same when you work on a larger surface.

What is gridding?

Your Assignment:1. Each of you will receive one piece of 12x12 white paper, and one photograph.

2. This photograph will be 1/30th of an entire image.

3. You must grid your photograph onto your larger paper, and add value to each box to match the photograph.

4. When put together, your piece must help the entire composition.

You will be graded on…

1. How well you grid out your image.

2. How well you match the textures/values in your image.

3. How well your piece fits in with the rest of the class.

4. Your time/effort/use of materials.

Collaborative Portrait Examples