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Level: Beginner Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8 Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 66.7 Drawspace Curriculum 1.1.A2 - 4 Pages and 12 Illustrations

Play with Five Grades of Graphite Use the base values of five different grades of pencils to shade eight simple line drawings

Resources: • 1.1.R3 Examining Graphite and Grades • 1.1.R4 Seeing Grades in Drawings Supplies: paper, 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, and 6B pencils, pencil sharpener, printer to print the exercises Figure 1

ArtSpeak Grade: The softness or hardness of the mixture used in the manufacture of drawing mediums. Line drawing: An artwork created with only lines. A line drawing aims to accurately outline the contours of the various shapes and/or forms of a drawing subject. Shape: A two-dimensional geometric object that can serve as the outline of a three-dimensional object. For example, a circle is the shape of a sphere. Shading: The process of adding values to a drawing so as to create the illusion of texture, form, and/or threedimensional space.

As an artist, your goal is to choose whichever grades of pencils are best to accurately shade the values you see in your reference images. The eight exercises in this activity are designed to help you associate a value you see with a grade of pencil that can render that value. Check out an example of an exercise in Figure 1. Each exercise in this activity also has a reference image in the upper section and a line drawing in the lower section. ISBN: 978-1-927365-08-3 Copyright © 2015 Drawspace Publishing and Brenda Hoddinott. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transferred, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, digital, mechanical, recording, photographing, photocopying, or otherwise, without the purchase of a licence from drawspace.com or the prior written consent of Brenda Hoddinott and Drawspace Publishing.

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Drawspace Curriculum 1.1.A2: Play with Five Grades of Graphite

1. Shade the base value of a 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, and 6B pencil (Figure 2).

Figure 2

Don’t press hard with your pencils as this might destroy the tooth of your paper.

2H

Let the base value of each grade do the work for you. If you want, mark the grade used beside each value. 2. Print pages 3 and 4.

HB

2B

4B

6B

Tip! If you don’t have a printer, you can still visually assess which pencil grades you would choose to achieve the values in the reference images.

3. Examine and compare the values of the shapes in each upper reference image.

Figure 3

In addition to comparing the values to one another, also compare them to your base value scale (Figure 2). 4. Decide which pencil would best duplicate the value of each shape. Check out an example of an upper reference image (Figure 3). Figure 4

The grade of pencil used to shade each shape is marked. For example, the long, thin rectangle on the far left is shaded with a 4B. Refer to Figure 4 to see a completed exercise. 5. Shade each outlined shape in the lower box to match its value in the upper box. Use only one grade of pencil for each shape and whatever shading techniques you currently have in your repertoire. Don’t expect to duplicate each value perfectly. This is an art ‒ not a science. Just come as close as you can to each value.

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Drawspace Curriculum 1.1.A2: Play with Five Grades of Graphite

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

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Drawspace Curriculum 1.1.A2: Play with Five Grades of Graphite

Exercise 5

Exercise 6

Exercise 7

Exercise 8

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