Students are encouraged to take a photo of each completed study and place it side by side the reference photo, either on their desktop or app, for final adjustments. This approach will not only help students notice any difficulties they may be facing, but also advance their understanding of value.

Additional Project:

Making Your Own Value Scale Chart - Making a value chart using the medium you're working with will be an invaluable tool for your learning and progression.

Getting Started:

Value Scale Chart - Review lesson 5. Download your measurement sheet below. Mark out your chart and begin.

Other projects - Choose your method of transferring outline, if needed (grid, freehand, trace), download the corresponding resource sheets below, measure and mark out the project box, begin outline.

Pencil Practice Pressure: Single Tones & Smooth Transitions
Pencil Practice Pressure: Cube
Pencil Pressure Practice: Sphere
Block Study: Keeping Layers Smooth
Block Study: Single Tone - Backgrounds and Skin Blends
Block Study: Gradated Tone Study - Backgrounds and Skin Blends
Water Drop Study: Using Perfection Eraser

Materials:

The most important aspect for creating photorealistic drawings is incorporating a full range of values. It's highly recommended to purchase all three pencil sets listed in the class materials sheet, below - including 2 Downloadable sheets of all equipment - #1 includes all the materials needed for this class, #2 includes additional tools and equipment that you may find useful at a later date.

To get the most out of this realism class you will need pencils 4H to 5B from the Blue (graphite only) Staedtler set, HB to 8B from the Black (graphite/carbon mix) Staedtler set, and the Conte a Paris Pierre Noire 3B pencil, ruler, erasers, Brushes and blending equipment.

It’s not encouraged to place charcoal directly on top of graphite as the contrast will look too stark. The Staedtler Black range of pencils have a mixed graphite/carbon lead and are a great set to help bridge this gap.

Resources:

A downloadable file has been added for each separate study in ‘Resources’ below. Included within each folder is;

Reference Photo
Gridded Reference Photo
Value Chart Sheet
Pencil Practice Sheet - Rectangle
My Outline
My Drawing
Assignment Tracker
Quick Reference Value Guide

Sharing Work with Class Community:

Please do take the time to upload a photo of each project to your class project page, for feedback. Each student gets one project page per class, but within that page, they are able to upload all the projects from the class, along with text. There's space for a thumbnail photo at the very top of the page where you can add a drawing from the class that you’re most proud of. The thumbnail is your project page cover photo and will appear on the main class page for everyone to see. Students can press on the thumbnail picture and open your projects page where they can see all the wonderful drawings you made throughout the class :)

Brett Michael

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