Creating Value with Line Strokes and Stippling Techniques

1. Mrs. Comstock

2.  Value, or tone, refers to the use of light and
dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork.
Black-and-white photography depends
entirely on value to define its subjects. Value
is directly related to contrast.

3. When you create line strokes, the
farther apart they are, the
LIGHTER the area looks.
However, the closer together
you place them, the DARKER
the area appears.

5.  There are different types of line strokes.
 Contour
 Criss Cross
 Cross Hatching
 Parallel
 Scribbling
 Stippling
 Wavy Lines

6. Let’s look at some
examples of
these different
line strokes.

21.  Stippling is a common art technique used to
create shading and texture in their drawings,
particularly line drawings. Stippling can be
done with a wide variety of mediums.
 The bottom line is that with the stippling
technique there is no line work whatsoever.
Everything is comprised of dots.

28.  You can still combine this technique of
stippling with the other line strokes.
 For the project we are going to do, I would
like to see you combine stippling with at least
one other line stroke for some of the features
(i.e. the hair or be adventurous and mix it up).
Remember the example of the bear we saw-
it showed value and texture… you could use
that on parts of your image if appropriate.

29.  Remember, no matter what line stroke you
choose, the closer together you put the lines
or dots, the darker your value will appear.
The farther away you put the lines or
dots, the lighter your value will appear.

30. You will try to find an image
that has STRONG contrast
in value. Let’s look at a
few examples of good
images.

37.  Whatever image you find, be sure you LOVE
it. You will be working on this for a while. Be
sure it has a LOT of value range. You will do a
beautiful job! I can’t wait to see them
finished!