1. Different types of pencils and its grades and other tools

Well knowing about your pencil is the most important part of drawing anything. Here let’s see how many tools and pencils you do have and if you don’t have, its best to have them in the collection. Using woodless pencil is always a challenge for artists.

2. Eraser usage techniques

Your task is to use your eraser as a drawing or highlighting tools. This is the utmost important aspect of drawing using light & shades. Pick you eraser and find the lightest portion in the subject.

3. Gradation

It is the very important to practice various grading using single pencil. Pick up your pencil whatever you do have and find its darkest tones & lightest tones as well by gradually changing pressure on it.

4. Forms for still life

Your task is to pick any reference pic or use my drawing as reference and find its form using light & shades approach as mentioned in the lesson for mug drawing or still life drawing.

5. Features through wildlife

So, for better understating of lights & shades we can take a reference for a challenging wildlife artwork. This makes the thing more fun loving. Try to draw the same drawing as I draw in this lesson & get the features using subtraction method.

Try this one with applying force line in background....

6. Human Portraits:

This is the ultimate goal which can be achieve using light & shades techniques. Your task is to identify dark areas in the portrait first, then smudge everything and find grey values. Take this drawing as reference and try your efforts & submit in the project section. I will be more than happy to review them.

You can get the step by step procedure as stated in below Image. Your assignment is to try to do it in same manner and post your artwork in your project section.

Werty Saone

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