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Line

Value

Portraits

The Basics to 2 of the Elements of Design!

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Materials to Prep (per student):

  • White paper (Cut to size 11x14)
  • Black Pen
  • Pencil
  • Ruler
  • Printed Value worksheet and Landscape Value Worksheet

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  • Have printer available to print reference images once students “share” it with you.

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  • You may want to have the examples of lines slides printed for reference.

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What is a line?

A 2 Dimensional segment that has 2 defining endpoints

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What is a shape?

A 2 Dimensional Closed line.

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Value Worksheet Link

Landscape Value Worksheet Link

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Online Examples

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Student Examples

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Student Examples

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Pointillism- Creating value with dots.

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Online Examples

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Student Examples

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Shading with Pencil- smooth transitions between value!

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Online Examples

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Student Examples

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Good Photos Just Need Crop Bad Photos

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Prepping Your Portrait Video

  • Find a photo of either yourself or a person you would like to draw.

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  • Paste your photo into a Google Doc.

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  • Crop your photo to be 7in. x 5.5in.
    • “Image Options -> Size and Rotation -> Crop until correct size”
    • Make Reference photo black and white using “Image Options -> Recolor”

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Gridding

  • Start by gridding your printed reference picture every ½ inch.
    • Line your ruler up with the edge of your picture, NOT the paper.
  • Label the top boxes A-K
  • Label the side boxes 1-14.

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  • Start gridding your final paper, every 1 inch.
  • Label the boxes the same as your reference picture.

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Contour

  • Using the grid method, start to draw in some of the major details.
    • No details necessary! Focus on just major outlines.
  • Once you have outlined the major parts of your face, find the areas that are shadows and highlights. Draw those shapes in.

D4

D4

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Contour

  • Using the grid method, start to draw in some of the major details.
    • No details necessary! Focus on just major outlines.
  • Once you have outlined the major parts of your face, find the areas that are shadows and highlights. Draw those shapes in.

D4

D4

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Background

  • Start by using line/shape to create a dark background.

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  • You will have to use lots of line in order to create a dark value!

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Portrait Value

  • SLOWLY fill in boxes of the face with a light value.
  • Add more and more lines to match the value on the portrait.
  • START LIGHT!

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Make sure to have a full value scale in your drawing. White-Black and all the grays in between.