CHARCOAL PENGUIN DRAWING is a student favorite each year. It’s a great lesson to introduce shading and values. Charcoal or pencil can be used for these sketches. Great project for teaching remotely, in a classroom, or at home.
CHARCOAL PENGUINS- Winter Art Lesson
These little penguins are a great lesson in values & using charcoal…
Materials
1/2 sheet of white drawing paper, charcoal pencils or compressed charcoal sticks, eraser
I like to introduce charcoal in third grade. We do a really simple charcoal lesson at the start of the year
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then these charcoal penguins in December, after they’ve been working on their drawing & sketching skills a bit.
DIRECTIONS
Start off drawing step by step the simple shapes for the penguin. Working from the large body shapes to the details. Once the drawing is complete, draw in an iceberg and the background.
I discussed Values, shading in light and dark shading. Step by step shade in one part at a time so they do not get lost along the way. The wings, beak, feet shade in dark. The body, medium. The hills in the horizon can be medium as well. When we get to the ridge around the iceberg and the water we discuss creating texture with the charcoal. Vertical small lines for the ridge around the iceberg and light horizontal texture for the water.
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