Draw on That—Day Five: Shading Values on a Cone

Building on our lesson on values and shading techniques from when we drew our mountain ranges last class, today we will try to shade a unique shape… a cone. This was my sample for the class of the cone-head creature that the students will try to draw:

The students today used hatching and cross-hatching and some squirkling techniques to draw their crazy cone-head creatures. We also had the chance to take advantage of the different array of pencils to create dark and light values. These results show lots of unique styles and effects.—