Draw on That—Day Three From out of the Darkness

For our “Draw on That” class today, it was also time for a change. Charcoal, shadows and shading to create a 3-D face on a ball. Like my younger class this morning, we worked on shading a ball and creating a face.

This project was great for understanding new tools like charcoal and to understand the basics of creating three-dimensional images.

For these older students, we also tried some more advance techniques. First we created a smudgy field of grey on our paper by smudging charcoal with tissue across our paper. We then drew our circle and worked on pulling our ball faces out of the grey darkness by using our kneaded erasers. The highlights in the work below were all created with erasers with darker charcoal used to create the more intense shadows and shading.

And just for fun, the cucumber version! :-)