Catherine Holmes - Drawing Dimension - Shading Techniques: A Shading Guide for Teachers and Students

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ISBN-13:978-0692919842

ISBN-10: 0692919848

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948516

SHADING TECHNIQUES

A Shading Guide for Teachers and Students

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How to Draw Cool Stuff: A Drawing Guide for Teachers and Students

This book shows simple step-by-step illustrations that make it easy for anyone to draw cool stuff with precision and confidence. These lessons will help you see line, shape, space and other elements in everyday objects and turn them into detailed works of art in just a few simple steps. The exercises in this book will help train your brain so you can visualize ordinary objects in a different manner, allowing you to see through the eyes of an artist. From photorealistic faces to holiday themes and tattoo drawings, How to Draw Cool Stuff makes drawing easier than you would think and more fun than you ever imagined!

How to Draw Cool Stuff: Basics, Shading, Texture, Pattern and Optical Illusions is the second book in the How to Draw Cool Stuff series. Inside you will find simple illustrations that cover the necessities of drawing cool stuff. Specific exercises are provided that offer step-by-step guidelines for drawing a variety of subjects. Each lesson starts with an easy-to-draw shape that will become the basic structure of the drawing. From there, each step adds elements to that structure, allowing the artist to build on their creation and make a more detailed image. Starting with the basic forms, the artist is provided a guide to help see objects in terms of simplified shapes. Instructions for shading to add depth, contrast, character and movement to a drawing are then covered.

How to Draw Cool Stuff: Holidays, Seasons and Events is a step-by-step drawing guide that illustrates popular celebrations, holidays and events for your drawing pleasure. From the Chinese New Year to April Fools Day, Fathers Day to Halloween, Christmas and New Year s Eve - this book covers over 100 fun days, holidays, seasons and events, and offers simple lessons that will teach you how to draw like a pro and get you in the spirit of whichever season it may be! The third book in the How To Draw Cool Stuff series, this exciting new title will teach you how to create simple illustrations using basic shapes and a drawing technique that simplifies the process of drawing, all while helping you construct height, width and depth in your work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

: Introduction to Tools

: Putting the Tools To Use

: Five-Toned Drawing Exercise

: Cross-Contour Drawing

: Shading With Cross-Contour Lines

: Light Source and Shadow

: Shading a Tree Realistically

: Gradations, Highlights, Reflections, and Blending

: Shading With Pen

: Contrast and Focal Point

: Combining Techniques

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Drawing Dimension: Shading Techniques . Shading is one of the easiest ways to add depth, contrast, character, and movement to your drawings. By shading and adding tone properly, an artist can greatly improve the quality of his or her drawings. This is a skill that can be learned and it is not a difficult skill to grasp, but it does take some practice. By controlling pencil pressure and stroke, understanding light, and having knowledge of blending techniques, an artist can enhance their work and offer the wow factor needed in order to make an artwork convincingly realistic.

Shading captures the variation in value within an image and describes the form of an object. The inclusion of highlights and shadows in an artwork takes a two-dimensional image that has width and height and adds depth, giving an artwork the appearance of having three-dimensional qualities. This revolves mainly around identifying light sources and replicating them to create shape and volume using contrast as opposed to just lines.

This book, based on my online Craftsy drawing class, Drawing Dimension: Shading Techniques , offers a series of shading tutorials that are easy to understand and apply, exploring ideas beyond simple step-by-step instruction. The reader is offered direction as well as a deeper look in to the learning process by nurturing technique and understanding. Along with instruction, there are three principles to each lesson: Know, Understand and Do. To truly grasp a concept in art, an artist needs to know about the techniques they are using, as well as understand how theyre used and what they communicate in order to be able to use them effectively. Knowing is to simply recognize the facts and basic vocabulary of an idea. To understand is to comprehend the core meaning and principles of that idea, enabling the artist to make important generalizations and use insight when creating or discussing a work. Understanding requires higher-order thinking and does not have just one answer. Doing is to create and demonstrate the skills learned. This can be a final product (artwork) but can also include analyzing, compare/contrast, creative problem solving, and speculating. Understanding and doing promotes thinking and independent learning. To just know an idea is often simply the recall of information or facts. There is often one right answer. It is through the understanding component where an artist truly grasps the relevance of a lesson or experience. Understanding can be transferred from one situation to another, applied to new situations and other projects, not just one lesson being taught. Understanding is not something that can be memorized. This book aims to help an artist understand.