8th Grade Art: Draw what you SEE! Value Study

Drawing:

* The hardest part of drawing is drawing what you actually SEE and not what you THINK you see.

Which is the better apple drawing?

Obviously the 2nd one is the better apple drawing, but why?  They both LOOK like apples... sort of?
Because the 2nd artist paid attention to the exact shapes of the apple and also it's VALUE.

VALUE is the lightness and darkness of a color.  The Values can be broken down into:

Highlights -- White -- #1
Transitional Values -- Light Gray -- #2-3
Core Shadows -- Dark Gray -- #4
Reflected Light -- Light Gray -- #2
Cast Shadow -- Black -- #5

PABLO PICASSO:  Master of Values!

Your project:

Learning to draw what you see by fragmenting a portrait of a person from a magazine, then drawing in the missing pieces.

Then, you are going to divide those areas into smaller shapes and fill each shape with a value scale, like that of Picasso!