The Assignment

Students used a view finder to focus on an interesting section of a still life , and sketched their views on 12x18 white drawing paper. The students then completed a series of exercises which required them to practice various shading techniques using colored pencils. The students did not have to use the natural colors of the Indian corn in their drawings, but they did have to create the highlights and shadows as they saw them.

The two different artists that created these drawings focused in on two different areas the artist on the left paid more attention to the corn kernels while the artist on the right spent more time working with the leaves.

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