DRAWING white pencil humanimal

Working with a white pencil on a dark background provides a challenge to those used to working with graphite. This is because you are actually drawing in the highlights NOT the shadows!

Read through the document called "High Contrast Drawing" and do the sphere activity at the end. This is the same process we did with Graphite in the Eyes to hands unit at the start of the year BUT remember you are drawing the lighter parts - not darker areas! start of light and build up layers for smooth transitions

WCP Sphere Exercise ed.pdf

ACTIVITY: Immaculate Creature on Black

  1. select one of your Humanimal collages and if needed, photocopy it to A3 size.

  2. Transfer your creature to the black paper using either freehand/grid method or carbon paper

  3. Using white pencil render your immaculate creature with value and tone to give it form. Refer to your collage for value placement but also add other areas of interest as you go.

The aim is to make your piece look unified and NOT Like a collage so you will need to use your artistic licence to decide where to add more value and texture to create form and shape

Adding your creatures name

You can add your creatures name to your drawing. This can be done free hand or transfered on using font sheets. Use value and shading to add definition to your text. CONSIDER how your text and creature interact... does the text follow the form of the creature, it is a label top or bottom, is it straight or curved? Use your photocopy to design name placement...