Tonal Square

For my tonal square, we had to draw sort of a puzzle piece of an image that when put together makes a larger image. We looked at a small square of a bigger picture had had to duplicate it by shading without knowing what the bigger picture looked like. You can see when you look at my square how in certain areas they are a little bit lighter but are sort of blended together so it’s not as obvious. I did my best to make the lighter areas more obvious without ruining the shading of the areas around it. This represents my life because I definitely made lots of mistakes when experimenting with how to successfully complete my square. Even though I kept messing up, I did my best to try and successfully complete this project.

I used a 4.25x4.25 in section of the computer paper with our assignment on it to try and replicate the square. I then used the H, 2H and 4H graphite pencils to shade to lighter sections, and the HB, 2B, and 4B to shade the medium to darker areas. I first started shading with the lighter pencils so that it would be easier to do that first and then started with the darker pencils shading around the lighter areas.

I started off with lighter shading to get the outline of what needed to be shaded darker. When I started shading areas that were darker on the square it was harder than I thought to get the right shade. Every time I tried to get the shade dark enough to match the square it was always a shade to light. I also noticed that my project evolved when the different shades started to blend together and form one shade in certain areas. This made the lighter areas in the square not as obvious as they should have looked. In the future, if I did this project again I would try not to smudge the shading as much with my arm because I think that’s what made the shades blend together. I could also keep this in my for other projects that require shading so that I can make sure I get the best quality piece I can make.