Value scale art

Value study

Using a value scale while shading can make a real difference in your pencil drawings. Learn how to have successful shading with value scales.

Been focusing so much on my 7th graders lately, so now I'd like to show off what my 2nd and 3rd year drawing students are starting off with. They too had to do value scales as a drawing review, but unlike my 7th graders who only had to achieve 5 values of grey, my 2nd year had to get 8 to 10 and my 3rd year had to come up with 13 (which is really hard to do). This top piece was done by 3rd year junior Jason Kwon who has the most beautifully sensitive drawing skills, and the 2 below where…

VALUE SCALES 7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 2ND QUARTER - 2016-2017 graphite on paper & colored pencil accents Let me introduce my 2nd Quarter 7th graders. They like my first group had a couple of real knuckleheads but overall, another talented bunch. Let me show a couple off. Sabrina Liu starts us off with this adorable dragon. And she's created values everywhere and has picked up a bit of extra credit for that. Next is Amy Wang who obviously is coming in with some self-taught drawing skills. Wow…

VALUE SCALES 7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 3RD QUARTER - 2017-2018 graphite & colored pencil accents Let me introduce you to probably one of the most talented 7th graders I had the pleasure of working with last year, Itzel Huerta. The piece above was the very first piece she created for me and when she turned it in I was blown out of the water. Can you find her 3 value scales in the piece? OMG, this is so not 7th grade level. I was absolutely delighted to have her aboard. And lucky for me she is…

Value scale project

Element of Art: Value because of the shading from white to grey to black.

Value scales using line

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in between. The human eye can only see 44 different values in between black and white. Apparently the most a person has ever created without using a computer is 12. Here are 11.