Grade 7 Drawing Student Examples

Units of Study:

    • Drawing from observation

    • Mark making techniques

    • Black & White graphite still life

    • Colored pencil illustration

    • Abstraction techniques

DSC01386.JPG

Students build on their observation and drawing skills with new media by exploring ways to illustrate fur, feathers, scales and other animal features with colored pencil techniques.

Some of the stars of these amazing drawings are exotic or jungle animals. A few are renderings of my students' pets. Other drawings showcase endangered species.

emma.jpg
julia.jpg

How do artists show that still life objects are three-dimensional on a two-dimensional sheet of paper?

  1. VALUE

  2. FORM

  3. TEXTURE

  4. and a great deal of observation