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Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to see and replicate light and shadow in your drawings.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Materials
  • An introduction to lighting for artists
  • Pencils, paper, and chalk
  • Charcoal, pens, and paper stumps
2. Principles of Chiaroscuro
  • The history of light and shade in art
  • The basics of light logic
3. Basics of Lighting
  • Shaping the light in nature
  • Hard and soft lighting effects
4. Value and Form
  • Cast-shadow-tone drawing: The line drawing
  • Cast-shadow-tone drawing: The tones
  • Reflected light
5. Compositional Patterns Using Light and Dark
  • Shadow mapping multiple objects
  • Monet: Light and dark patterns
  • Compositional patterns on tonal paper
  • Compositional rules
6. Using Tonal Paper
  • The three tone masses
  • Shadows and highlights
  • Sfumato and shadow edges
7. Final Project
  • Final project: Building the initial tonal stage
  • Final project: Finishing the project

Taught by

Will Kemp

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