Every grade level I teach them about simple shapes for building a drawing. In this lesson, I break down the basic shape of a simple vase. We also go over realistic shading and shadows.
Using willow charcoal sticks, the students practice sketching circles and ovals, we also practice creating dark, medium and light values on newsprint paper. We also use pink erasers.
We begin with largest simple shapes and work our way to the smaller shapes. I go over symmetry to make corrections, before we begin shading.
We add in medium to light values on the vase and add in dark values for the shadows and horizon line to create depth.
