Using various drawing materials and techniques, students created a charcoal drawing of their own favorite shoe.
Shoes are a difficult drawing challenge - they feature both simple and complex shapes, as well as details like rivets, laces, and logos. To appear accurate and three-dimensional, students must also pay close attention to proportions, highlights, and shadows. Using a light coating of compressed charcoal and a cotton ball, students toned their paper to prepare for the drawing. Using observational drawing techniques, students observed the basic shapes and forms found on and around the shoe to create an outline drawing with vine charcoal. With a variety of charcoal pencils and a gum eraser, students added a range of values from light to dark to show three-dimensionality.
The 8th graders did an excellent job with this task - check out the students' artwork below!
Shoes are a difficult drawing challenge - they feature both simple and complex shapes, as well as details like rivets, laces, and logos. To appear accurate and three-dimensional, students must also pay close attention to proportions, highlights, and shadows. Using a light coating of compressed charcoal and a cotton ball, students toned their paper to prepare for the drawing. Using observational drawing techniques, students observed the basic shapes and forms found on and around the shoe to create an outline drawing with vine charcoal. With a variety of charcoal pencils and a gum eraser, students added a range of values from light to dark to show three-dimensionality.
The 8th graders did an excellent job with this task - check out the students' artwork below!