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  • Practising your observational drawing 

       

    In order to give you a fair assessment of your drawing ability we need to give you a variety of drawing tasks.  

    By Year 8 to get a "Beyond' level, we expect  that you can copy a drawing completed by an artist and show correct accuracy and proportion of shapes as well as use a shading pencil to copy the tonal variations in the piece.  

    We have three separate drawing tasks for you to work on over the next two weeks and you must use a 6 B pencil, for at least two of the drawings and then if you like, you could try using a pen for the third work.

    Look carefully at these two pictures and choose ONE of them to copy accurately into your drawing book

    Watch carefully how your teacher demonstrates using different pressures with the pencil to create the different tones and remember.... look, draw, look, draw, look!


    Copy this information onto your page

    HELPFUL TIPS

    1.  Draw the outline shapes first and look closely to get accurate proportion

    2.  Draw the shape that's at the bottom of the page first as usually the other shapes will be overlapping in behind this one.

    3.  Try to look really closely to find where the highlights and shadows fall.  There will always be a light source showing on objects from somewhere.