DRAW A REALISTIC PAPER BAG
PENCIL / CHARCOAL
Assignment: Create a composition of one or several paper bags, rendering each with line and tone If rendering more than one bag, draw one in complete tone, and let the others fade into a contour line. For developing tone on black paper with white charcoal, draw the lights and mid tones, rather than the shadows.
Materials: 12" by 18" white drawing paper, graphite, brown paper bags
Objectives: The student will learn that the key to drawing realistic texture lies in value. Creating an accurate light source and translating accurate values will result in a representational drawing with convincing texture.
Objectives: The student will learn that the key to drawing realistic texture lies in value. Creating an accurate light source and translating accurate values will result in a representational drawing with convincing texture.
PAPER BAG DRAWING
Crumple a paper bag. Draw it, paying attention both to its value and texture and to how it works on the page as a design.
This is basically a drawing problem, but a good drawing should be composed as carefully as any other design.
It also gives you a chance to experiment with representing hard and soft edges and subtle visual variations in an object whose underlying texture is everywhere the same.
You will not need to give very many visual clues to get viewers to respond to overall texture.
Once you give an indication of a texture, it is very easy for observers to see it everywhere.
There is no one-way to represent the texture of a crumpled bag.
You may draw a line of contour or create a line by values meeting to form an edge.
You might put down darks and use erasure to establish your texture.
Use value to suggest mass as well as light.
Optically we experience the modeling of the paper bag's form as if it could be touched.
Dark and light patterns over the paper bag represent advancing and receding surfaces rather than light and shadows.
Changes in value signify physical changes in the surface terrain and equate to tactile experience rather than to the illuminating quality of light.
Review: value,texture, drawing with graphite
Estimated Duration: 7 days
Important Resources:
Value
Texture
Video Resources
How to Make a Value Finder
Graphite Shading Techniques
Artist Graphite Pencils
Crumple a paper bag. Draw it, paying attention both to its value and texture and to how it works on the page as a design.
This is basically a drawing problem, but a good drawing should be composed as carefully as any other design.
It also gives you a chance to experiment with representing hard and soft edges and subtle visual variations in an object whose underlying texture is everywhere the same.
You will not need to give very many visual clues to get viewers to respond to overall texture.
Once you give an indication of a texture, it is very easy for observers to see it everywhere.
There is no one-way to represent the texture of a crumpled bag.
You may draw a line of contour or create a line by values meeting to form an edge.
You might put down darks and use erasure to establish your texture.
Use value to suggest mass as well as light.
Optically we experience the modeling of the paper bag's form as if it could be touched.
Dark and light patterns over the paper bag represent advancing and receding surfaces rather than light and shadows.
Changes in value signify physical changes in the surface terrain and equate to tactile experience rather than to the illuminating quality of light.
Review: value,texture, drawing with graphite
Estimated Duration: 7 days
Important Resources:
Value
Texture
Video Resources
How to Make a Value Finder
Graphite Shading Techniques
Artist Graphite Pencils
STUDENT EXAMPLES