Volumetric Shapes
Practice makes perfect and practice gives the student an ability to create the illusion of volumetric forms on a flat surface. This assignment serves as a time for students to prepare themselves for the much more challenging project we go into next - The Portrait Lesson. Shading plays a huge part in making an object appear to be three-dimensional and realistic.
After going through a step-by-step guided drawing lesson where we learn to shade a cone, sphere, cube, and cylinder, students must combine at least several of these forms to create a balanced and interesting composition on their paper.
Learning to shade shaped forms correctly is a skill that is learned and only perfected through lots and lots of practice. Much like learning a new technique in a sport or learning the steps in a new math formula, many techniques in art are simply just skills that can be taught to anyone. With enough dedication and perseverance, students can become quite skilled at this technique in art.
Minnesota State Visual Art Standards:
After going through a step-by-step guided drawing lesson where we learn to shade a cone, sphere, cube, and cylinder, students must combine at least several of these forms to create a balanced and interesting composition on their paper.
Learning to shade shaped forms correctly is a skill that is learned and only perfected through lots and lots of practice. Much like learning a new technique in a sport or learning the steps in a new math formula, many techniques in art are simply just skills that can be taught to anyone. With enough dedication and perseverance, students can become quite skilled at this technique in art.
Minnesota State Visual Art Standards:
- 2. Evaluate how the principles of visual art such as repetition, pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the creation of, presentation of, or response to visual artworks. (9.1.1.5.2)
- 3. Justify artistic intent, including how audience and occasion influence presentation choices. (9.3.1.5.3)
- 2. Revise artworks based on artistic intent and using multiple sources of critique and feedback. (9.2.1.5.2)
- 1. Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture. (0.1.2.5.1)
- 1. Analyze, interpret and evaluate works of visual art by applying self-selected criteria within the traditions of the art form. (9.4.1.5.1)