Week 5:

Continue your drawing from class. Before next week, draw as much as you can. Next week's class will be dedicated to finishing touches and refinements. Now that you have a still life where you can see both shiny and matte surfaces in the same scene, notice the differences between matte vs shiny surfaces

Matte vs shiny surfaces:

• Shiny
  • More tonal range (from white to black)
  • Crisp and distinct highlight
  • High contrast
• Matte
  • Less tonal range (from light grey to dark grey)
  • Diffused, blended highlight
  • Lower contrast

Week 4:

Continue working on your shiny sculpture. Try your best not to mix black and white pastel. Remember to keep your brown paper!

How to make the sculpture shiny:

• Make your highlights distinct
• Do not blend your highlights
• Create high contrast between the highlights and shadows

Week 3:

Continue your drawing from class, focusing on the shadows. Remember to leave some of the tonal paper showing; before you add the highlight, you may have more tonal paper showing than you want, but that will change as soon as you add white pastel.

Week 2:

Continue working on your matte sculpture. Try your best not to mix black and white pastel. Remember to keep your brown paper! You may need to erase some shadows you've already drawn to make room for your highlights, but only erase the shadows when you add the highlights, no need to erase preemptively.

How to make the sculpture matte:

• Blend the edges of your highlights to make them diffused
• Blend the edges of your shadows to soften them

Week 1:

Continue adding the areas that are darker than your toned paper. I recommend to do less rather than more, anticipating for the finishing effect that the addition of white pastel will bring.

If you'd like to begin blending the edges of your shadows, you can. Just be aware that blending areas can make them larger.

Squint, step back, look at shapes (negative and positive shapes).

Send me a photo of the latest version of your drawing if you'd like feedback next week. I will only give feedback to those that send me photos!