Students completed this shading exercise. They learned about the different shading techniques and practiced using different pressures with their pencils, this helps to develop more pencil control, leading to being able to shade objects or pictures to look realistic.
Strip Drawing
This is a technique similar to grid drawing, where students would divide the image being drawn into a grid of 1" squares and then draw the image square by square on their drawing paper, which may consist of 2" squares. In this exercise, students bring in a picture, we blow it up to be the same size as their drawing paper, (for these students we did 8X10) their copied black and white picture is then cut into four strips. The strips of the picture are taped on top of the drawing paper. Students begin drawing one strip at a time. They can use the strip of paper to line up their drawing, and again break it into smaller steps.
In this project, students created all sorts of hand constructed forms. The assignment was open ended. Students learned about basic ceramic techniques, processes and tools.