基本的な描き方: 光と明度

What brings an artwork to life? The answer has to do with the title of this class! To bring volume, perspective, detail, and liveliness to an artwork, an understanding of light, values, and different methods of shading are essential. Once students understand and have mastered the art of contour drawing, they will need to take steps to fill in those lovely outlines. How to Draw Basics: Light and Values is designed to teach learners about how light works and interacts with objects to bolster their confidence in observations, why knowing your light source is so important, and four different methods of shading. No background knowledge is required, but it is strongly recommended your learner take How to Draw Basics: Materials and Value if they haven’t worked with artists graphite pencils before. 
	
How to Draw Basics: Light and Values combines interactive PowerPoint lecture and practice time to help learners engage and understand the material. Class will begin with a lecture that will cover exactly how light works, explain why light is important, demonstrate how light can be emotional and narrative, and introduce important vocabulary. After our lecture period, learners will have the rest of class to work on two Shading Technique Worksheets. The first worksheet will work as a value study or scale that will teach students how to get different values from their four shading techniques: rendering, hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling. Our second worksheet will encourage learners to practice those techniques conceptually by turning circles into spheres while paying attention to light source. Time permitting, the class may have the option to work on object studies. 
	
Learners should complete this class with a thorough understanding of how light works, why observing light is important, how light and value can impact an artwork, and understand four different methods of shading. They will have completed two worksheets and potentially, an object study or two.

***I recommend taking my one-time How to Draw Basics classes in the following order: 
#1: Materials and Value
#2: Contours
#3: Light and Value 
#4: Composition