7th Grade
CharcoalvalueTechniques for drawing with charcoal
• Materials
– 2 sheets newsprint
– to do practice sketch - ideas
– charcoal pencil
– white charcoal pencil
– willow charcoal sticks
– erasers - plastic, kneaded, rubber
– ruler
– sandpaper paddle
– small, clean water color brush
– non-greasy baking paper (place under hand while working to protect from smudging)
– charcoal paper (gray)
• Class Periods - 2
• Make sure the students put their name and date on every project!
willow/vine charcoal
charcoal pencil
white charcoal pencil
cover area with willow charcoal
draw fine lines with char. pencil
draw fine lines with willow
erasing techniques
prepare a chisel pointcreate an ellipse
1. charcoal paper is smooth side up
charcoal cannot adhere to glossy or shiny surface
needs a texture or “tooth”
2. rule the sheet into 4 same sized sections
use hb pencil
3. Charcoal techniques
1- cover medium sized areas with willow charcoal
2- draw fine lines with willow
3- draw fine lines with char. pencil
4- erasing techniques
PREPARE CHISEL POINT
sandpaper flat on table
gently rest tip on sandpaper
hold perpendicular (right angle) to surface
rub back and forth - shaving
will wear charcoal down to form the important point
*if charcoal shatters - too much pressure
Procedure
About Charcoal
has been used in various forms by artists for centuriesone of the oldests drawing materials
vocabulary• symmetry - in drawing is a balanced arrangement of lines and shapes, on opposite
sides of an often-imaginary centerline.
• asymmetry - the opposite of symmetry, when one side does not reflect the other side
• Shape - the outward outline of a form. Basic geometric shapes include circles, squares and triangles.
• abstract - not realistic but expressive, imaginative or creative way to show the essence of something
• cubism - subject matter is broken up, studied and reassembled in an abstracted, geometric form
• Shading - the various shades of gray (values) in a drawing that make drawings look three-dimensional.
• Tone - a quality of a color coming from it’s saturation.
• Value - the different shades of gray created by various means, such as when you
draw by varying both the density of the shading lines, and the pressure used in
holding your pencils.