Mr. Briscoe's Visual Arts - 8/29

We have recently been talking about the relationships between the structural nature of line and the sense of depth and realism provided by the application of value.

Students are currently working on a drawing that focuses on the use of line to create simple forms. Forms are simply 3-D objects/people or the illusion of three dimensional objects/people created on a 2-D surface. Students are drawing forms with the appearance that they are moving back or receding in space. The forms; cylinders, cones, cubes and spheres, should change in size the "farther away" from the viewer. In other words, objects that are close are larger than objects farther away which are smaller.

Students are then asked to shade the forms according to a light source artbitrarily set in the foreground. Graded value and flat value are employed as the students cause they shade their line drawings. Outlines should recede into the shading leaving a more realistic image.