Value scale drawing

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Value Scale Drawing

Value scales using line

Value: Value describes the brightness or darkness of color. A gradient is a series of values from darkest to lightest. For this exercise you will use the value scale sheet provided in your binder:

Using a value scale while shading can make a real difference in your pencil drawings. Learn how to have successful shading with value scales.

Value scale project

VALUE SCALES ADVANCED 2-D ART graphite on bristol board with collage paper frame Senior Samantha Tun is the lone ranger in my Advanced 2-D class, that's 3rd year drawing, painting and design. For her 1st assignment she had 3 days to create a 15 step Value Scale (not an easy task). Using a cityscape is a great place to line up values next to each other, but it was her collage frame that caught my eye. I really like how she combined the old Hymnal paper with the tye-dye pieces. Note also how…

These were done by my Intermediate and Advanced 2-d students as a warm up/drawing review at the beginning of the year. I'm just a little tardy getting them posted. My Intermediate class had to do a ten step value scale and my Advanced kids a 15 step scale. They were allowed to be as creative as possible with their subjects that their scales were put into. The whole thing was done in graphite. Above we have senior Michael Chen (Art II) with this very clean piece, and below is senior Crislyn…

VALUE SCALES 7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 2ND QUARTER - 2016-2017 graphite on paper & colored pencil accents Let me introduce my 2nd Quarter 7th graders. They like my first group had a couple of real knuckleheads but overall, another talented bunch. Let me show a couple off. Sabrina Liu starts us off with this adorable dragon. And she's created values everywhere and has picked up a bit of extra credit for that. Next is Amy Wang who obviously is coming in with some self-taught drawing skills. Wow…