Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to see and replicate light and shadow in your drawings.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- An introduction to lighting for artists
- Pencils, paper, and chalk
- Charcoal, pens, and paper stumps
- The history of light and shade in art
- The basics of light logic
- Shaping the light in nature
- Hard and soft lighting effects
- Cast-shadow-tone drawing: The line drawing
- Cast-shadow-tone drawing: The tones
- Reflected light
- Shadow mapping multiple objects
- Monet: Light and dark patterns
- Compositional patterns on tonal paper
- Compositional rules
- The three tone masses
- Shadows and highlights
- Sfumato and shadow edges
- Final project: Building the initial tonal stage
- Final project: Finishing the project
Taught by
Will Kemp
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