Values drawing

Value study

Master tonal values to make your artwork more realistic.

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I created this post to discuss how an artist can think technically about achieving an intended value key discussed in the previous post. This method helps to simplify an overwhelming number of values into a more workable structure at early stages of a painting (a digital one in this case). The loose renderings below are quick head studies from my imagination as they might be lit for dramatic and compositional purposes. I began with this basic head drawing which indicates some of the major…

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VALUE SCALES 7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 3RD QUARTER - 2017-2018 graphite & colored pencil accents Let me introduce you to probably one of the most talented 7th graders I had the pleasure of working with last year, Itzel Huerta. The piece above was the very first piece she created for me and when she turned it in I was blown out of the water. Can you find her 3 value scales in the piece? OMG, this is so not 7th grade level. I was absolutely delighted to have her aboard. And lucky for me she is…

Value scale worksheets are significant tools for budding and seasoned artists as they offer an understanding of the spectrum of tones from light to dark, which further enables them to produce impactful artwork.

Learn why value drawing is the key to realism, and how to use it to create form, depth and mood in your artworks!

In this section you will find images of famous classical drawings and drawing lessons worksheets. You are welcome to use any of these images or worksheets as inspiration, as reference or to "copy". INSPIRATION - Discover what is a good composition for this kind of subject - Understand what kinds of subjects or objects can be represented in a drawing REFERENCE - By looking carefully at drawing one can understand how the artist created the drawing - See how famous artists used drawing to…

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…

In colorimetry and color theory, lightness, also known as value or tone, is a representation of variation in the perception of a color or color space's brightness. It is one of the color appearance parameters of any color appearance model.