Introduction
- Picture Making
- Picture making involves the application of various method such as painting, drawing,collage and montage.
- Drawing
- It is making pictures using lines and shades.
- Stippling technique
- Involves using dots to create value and make an object look like solid while on adrawing surface.
Creating Light And Dark Effect Using The Stippling Techniques
- Stripping technique uses dots to create value and make an object look solid while on drawing surface.
- In stippling, areas that are light have a small number of dots and areas that are dark have many dots.
- Tonal value is the darkness and lightness of the colour of an object.
- When stippling the number of dots should gradually change from one area to another.
- Gradually means that the dots should not change suddenly but slowly from one step to the next.
Factors To Consider When Drawing Forms
- Proportion
- Balance
- Space
Creating A Dark Effect On Two Overlapped Forms By Stippling
- When two or more objects are placed or drawn in a way that they appear to be covering or blocking each other’s parts, the objects are said to be overlapping.
- When overlapping objects
- The large objects should be placed at the back –background, while the small objects in front- foreground
- The objects in front should be drawn at a lower position than the ones at the back.
- Objects closer to you are the ones in front and those far from you are the ones at the back.
- Objects in the middle are said to be at the middle ground.
- The objects that overlap are always separated by light and dark effect.
Drawing Three Overlapped Forms Using The Stippling Technique
Pot/gourd/calabash
- Collect the suggested tools and materials
- Follow the suggested steps and draw three overlapped forms using the stippling techniques
- Arrange the pot, gourd and calabash on a flat surface. The pot should be behind, the gourd in the middle and the calabash in front.
- Draw an outline of the three objects. Use dotted lines to show the objects are overlapping.
- Use rubber to erase parts or lines which have overlapped.
- Chose the direction you want to have and the direction you want less light.
- Use many dots to shade area and gradually reduce the dots as you move towards the light area.
Drawing
Imaginative Composition
- Imaginative drawing is a drawing made from an idea that is in your mind not what you see.
Creation of textural effect by stippling technique
- In stippling technique, dots can be used to show the surface quality of an object.
- Texture is the quality of a surface. Texture is used to show how an object would feel when touched.
- The surface with any dots is considered to be rough while the surface with few dots is considered to be smooth.
Creating Visual Balance When Drawing Several Forms
- Balance is the arrangement of objects in a space within a picture composition.
- Balance makes an art more attractive. It makes the artwork more stable and more comfortable to look at.
- When balancing objects, we should place them at the centre of our space and make them large enough to occupy at least more than half of our space.
- We can balance objects or forms using
- Colours
- Lines
- Shape
- Texture
- Tonal value
- There are 3 ways of creating balance
- Placing objects at the centre of the drawing space, so that the left part and the right part of the composition look equal.
- Arranging forms in a way that the left and the right side of your composition are not equal.
- Arranging forms in an imaginative manner.
Drawing An Imaginative Composition Of A Twig With Two Leaves And A Fruit
- Collected the suggested tools and materials. Pencil/pen/rubber/picture of real twig with two leaves and fruit.
- Place a picture of a real twig with two leaves and a fruit on a flat surface.
- Use a ruler to draw the drawing space you will use in your drawing book. Draw an outline shape of the objects. Use dotted line to show where the objects are overlapping.
- Use a rubber to erase parts or lines which have been overlapped. Reduce the darkness of your outline using a rubber.
- Chose the direction you want to have more light and the direction you want less light.
- Apply more dots on the dark areas and fewer dots on the light areas. Let the dots fade gradually.
- Identify the sharp edges, corners and holes on the twig and fill them with more dots to create texture.
Appreciating each other’s work.