
Explore shading on toned paper using a dark value pencil and white highlights to create high-contrast, realistic drawings, with materials like Strathmore gray tone paper, dark pencils, and white pencils.
Create a toned value scale on tone paper using white charcoal and varying grays to explore light, dark, and transitional values, then compare with white paper for high contrast.
Create gradation swatches on tone paper with a dark pencil fading to gray, add white gradations from the other end, and leave a gap in the middle to prevent mixing.
Master shading a toned sphere on tone paper using a white charcoal pencil to create center light. Compare with white paper methods to refine highlights, shadows, and smooth transitions.
Explore design techniques like atmospheric perspective to create depth and mood, and use vignette and background design to frame subjects and enhance composition.
Explore hatching and crosshatching to build value in drawings by layering parallel lines at angles. Practice consistent line length and spacing; vary direction and avoid perpendicular intersections.
Break the wooden figure into simple forms on gray paper, rough sketch to gauge proportions and placement. Then refine with shading, soft edges, overlapping forms, and highlights using white pencil.
Master shading basics by drawing a teapot with observational and constructed methods, using gray paper, highlights, and atmospheric perspective to convey a shiny surface.
Learn to shade an eye on tone paper by building structure with simplified line segments, mapping shadows and highlights, and rendering the iris, eyelids, and lashes with textured hatching.
Practice shading on black paper with white pencil, drawing in reverse to illuminate light highlights, and use value scales to create controlled gradations and high-contrast results.
Learn to draw a candle on black paper using white charcoal, leveraging strong contrast and glow effects to create a bright flame and illuminated candle body.
Master shading basics for black paper illustration by drawing a glass cup, capturing highlights, reflections, and refracted light to convey the glass’s form and the water inside.
Practice the black paper drawing method to render a bird with organic textures and nuanced lighting, using white patches and highlights, plus cast shadows to convey form.
Celebrate finishing the course, invite viewers to leave a rating, and encourage exploring more topics like drawing portraits, facial features, perspective fundamentals, and animal drawing.
Most people are familiar with the traditional way of drawing where a dark pencil is used to make marks on a white piece of paper. Here, the pencil is used to create the shadows and the white of the paper is used to depict the highlights.
But there is another method of shading using toned colored paper where a white pencil is used to create the highlights.
Toned paper is my favorite method of drawing because it allows you to shade more quickly and with less work while still achieving the same level of realism as regular white paper.
And it also results in really high contrast dynamic drawings.
In this 4th part of the Drawing Fundamentals Made Simple series, you're going to learn the different ways to use toned paper to make your artworks more exciting.
We'll begin by going over the materials you'll need as well as some basic shading exercise to get you comfortable with this medium.
You'll learn how to create a toned value scale and how to shade a basic 3D form.
Then we'll progress to drawing a variety of still life and organic subjects. We'll start with a simple wooden figure, then a porcelain teapot, and then a human eye.
You'll be able to see the entire process laid out in a step-by-step way, from the initial lay-in to applying all the shadows and highlights.
Once you're comfortable with shading on grey toned paper, I'll introduce you to drawing on black paper.
Here, we'll only use the white pencil to create the highlights and allow the black of the paper to stand in for the shadows. This style of drawing can create very high contrast and dynamic drawings (even more so than regular toned paper).
And by learning to shade on black paper, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the principles of rendering.
Once again, we'll learn through a series of easy-to-follow step by step exercises.
We'll start with a simple drawing of a candle. Then we'll move on to drawing a glass cup. And finally, we'll end with this bird drawing.
By the end of this course, you'll know how to use toned paper to create awesome artworks and be well on your way to become a well-rounded and knowledgeable artist.