Exercise 2 | Texture
Objectives:
Objectives:
Develop texture making skills to create value.
Development:
Work on the following exercises until they are correct; complete one at a time, checking with instructor during work sessions for suggestions and improvement.
Template for Exercise 3 | Texture
1.
Make three charts about the size below on your own paper and follow instructions with various techniques
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
A. Segmented Value Scale – intentional pen & ink stroking
One parallel set of lines (///) is called a “system.” Use one system in square #2 to make the lightest square of nine.
Make #3 darker by any or all of these methods:
- Draw lines of the system closer together
- Press harder with your pen
- And ink to a darker drawing pen.
Do not add a second system of lines. Use an ‘intentional’ pen stroke slanted at an angle that is comfortable for you.
The lengths of the strokes are optional.
Note that the strokes are separate from each other; make strokes, not scribbles!
See Paul Calles book “The Pencil” for excellent examples of intentional stroking.
B. Blended Value Scale – intentional pen & ink stroking
Use intentional stroking to shade continually and gradually from light to dark with no divisions between the successively darkening values.
The closer the marks are the darker it will appear.
Light -------------------------------------------- Dark
C. Blended Value Scale – broken pen & ink stroking
Same as B exercise above, except use broken stroking:
Intentional stroking where systems of lines going in different directions are packed tightly beside each other with no white space in between systems.
Do not overlap systems.
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D. Texture
Create nine different textures using pen & ink in 2”x2” fields.
Observe the textures you have around you and try to reproduce them.
See the samples below:
