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Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Drawing Courses Art History Courses Charcoal Drawing Courses Pencil Drawing Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to see and replicate light and shadow in your drawings.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Materials
  • An introduction to lighting for artists
  • Pencils, paper, and chalk
  • Charcoal, pens, and paper stumps
2. Principles of Chiaroscuro
  • The history of light and shade in art
  • The basics of light logic
3. Basics of Lighting
  • Shaping the light in nature
  • Hard and soft lighting effects
4. Value and Form
  • Cast-shadow-tone drawing: The line drawing
  • Cast-shadow-tone drawing: The tones
  • Reflected light
5. Compositional Patterns Using Light and Dark
  • Shadow mapping multiple objects
  • Monet: Light and dark patterns
  • Compositional patterns on tonal paper
  • Compositional rules
6. Using Tonal Paper
  • The three tone masses
  • Shadows and highlights
  • Sfumato and shadow edges
7. Final Project
  • Final project: Building the initial tonal stage
  • Final project: Finishing the project

Taught by

Will Kemp

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