Objective
To strengthen your ability to recognise tonal gradation.
To dissect and reconstruct your subject matter into tonal values.
To broaden your palette of image making techniques.
To complete another page for your book.
This is the important bit:
Look closely at your photograph—study each square carefully.
Your job is to find the dominant tone in each square and translate that tone into the corresponding tone on the larger empty grid—shade the whole square in that tone only, use no detail.
Begin with the darkest tones.
To strengthen your ability to recognise tonal gradation.
To dissect and reconstruct your subject matter into tonal values.
To broaden your palette of image making techniques.
To complete another page for your book.
Task
Look at your book plan and choose another page. It will work best for portraits.
Find a photograph from the web that has a range of tones in it—from white to black.
Look at your book plan and choose another page. It will work best for portraits.
Find a photograph from the web that has a range of tones in it—from white to black.
Make a new Photoshop doc—size WxH 8x11cm.
Place the photograph in the new doc and resize it (cmd T / hold Shift) to fit the frame of the doc.
Print it off in black and white—keep the size 8x11cm.
Mark every 5mm around the edge—lightly, and in pencil, join them together to form a grid.
Outside the box, write numbers 1-16 across the top edge and A-V down the side.
Mark every 5mm around the edge—lightly, and in pencil, join them together to form a grid.
Outside the box, write numbers 1-16 across the top edge and A-V down the side.
Go to a new spread in your sketchbook and draw a 16x22cm box, central on the right hand page.
Mark centimetres around the edge—lightly, and in pencil, join them together to form a grid.
Outside the box, write numbers 1-16 across the top edge and A-V down the side. See below.
Outside the box, write numbers 1-16 across the top edge and A-V down the side. See below.
This is the important bit:
Look closely at your photograph—study each square carefully.
Your job is to find the dominant tone in each square and translate that tone into the corresponding tone on the larger empty grid—shade the whole square in that tone only, use no detail.
Begin with the darkest tones.
Presentation
Take progress shots as you go along—aprox 5, photograph the finished drawing.
Checklist for assessment
Neat and parallel grids, attention to detail when looking at tones.
Deadline
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