Revised GCSE ART REVISED Support 22670 PDF
Revised GCSE ART REVISED Support 22670 PDF
Revised GCSE ART REVISED Support 22670 PDF
GCSE
ART AND DESIGN
Drawing Techniques
Aims
This range of drawing exercises breaks drawing down into very simple approaches or steps.
Each exercise is accessible to all students, regardless of any real or perceived level of ability or confidence.
Students will develop greater skills of observation and therefore a greater understanding of what it is they
are trying to draw.
Each exercise could be applied to still-life or life-drawing. The images used are deliberately simple to
illustrate the task. A drawing project could aim to build on these simple tasks by using more complex subject
matter and exploring further formal elements such as texture, colour and pattern.
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This exercise, whilst not producing accurate drawings, does produce interesting, fluid and vibrant drawings
which have a characteristic freedom of style which orthodox drawing techniques may not.
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Shading
• Make two outline drawings of the objects (as in Exercise 1, figure 1).
• Use a soft pencil and do not make a very heavy mark (figs.4 & 5)
Figure 4
Figure 5
• Using your soft pencil work on the first drawing, shading in light and dark areas. You can create differing
tonal values using either continuous tone (small circular movements of a blunt pencil) or crosshatching.
• Consider the direction of the light, and notice the different values of tone that are created as the light hits
different parts of the objects.
(Drawing basic structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEtdDvK6Xo)
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• Remember to draw the shadows that are cast by the objects. (fig.6)
Figure 6 – Shading
Tonal Drawing
• On the second outline drawing start to shade in tones again.
• The object of this exercise is to remove all traces of the outline you have drawn. This is done by drawing the
tonal values that are either on the object or behind the object (even if it is only space behind the object).
• Notice the lip of the cup in figure 7. The original outline has been obliterated by the dark tones in the
space behind the cup and by the mid-tones inside it.
• Observing the tonal values of the object itself and its relation to what is around it can allow the original
outline to be removed. (fig.7)
Compare the two drawings. Observe the difference and how figure 7 shows a greater sense of light, shape,
form and space.
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Figure 8 Figure 9
Figure 10 Figure 11 – Reductive drawing
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Extra Exercise
This reductive drawing method can be used to produce monotypes. The same principles are applied.
• Roll block printing ink onto a glass plate.
• Draw into the ink using tissue or a rag in the same way you drew into the charcoal using an eraser. More
detail can be achieved using a cotton bud.
• Print the image onto damp paper using a lino press or rubbing the back of the paper with your hand or the
back of a spoon.
Completed monotype
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At the end of the drawing session, leave enough time to allow the students to go to the spot they were
imagining they were sitting. They may be surprised by just how accurate they were.
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Artists to look at
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