Shading techniques and portraits

1. What is Value?
Posterized Portrait & Shading

2. Value is...
(write in sketchbook)
• The appearance of lights and
darks found in a work of art.
• These range from black to white
with numerous shades of gray in
between.

3. Value Scale?
(write in sketchbook)
• A value scale (or grayscale) shows the full
tonal range of a color.
• You will be doing this later today!
• Using your pencil, try shading dark to light.

4. What is Shading?
(write in sketchbook)
1. Applying media more densely or with a
darker shade for darker areas and less densely
or with a lighter shade for lighter areas.

5. So, how do you shade?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeIf-
fpawo

6. Shading techniques
1.Cross-hatching
-closely spaced parallel lines.
-Draw example in sketchbook

10. 2. Hatching
• Diagonal lines
drawn close
together
• Draw example
in your
sketchbook!

12. 3. Stippling
• Dots used to create value
• the denser the spacing of the
dots, the darker the apparent
shade—or lighter, if the
pigment is lighter than the
surface.
• Draw example!

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NG0UN7Hfo

15. 4. Blending
• Gentle and gradual transition from one to
the other.
• Draw example in your sketchbook!

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVptKJZzMAU

20. Scumbling or squiggle
• Loose marks that may be
curved.
• not scribbling! although it may
look like this!
• Draw example!

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE0qWbXiioo

22. Let’ try the techniques!
• Look at your notes!
• Complete the shading
worksheet by class
tomorrow.

23. Chuck Close
[American Photorealist Painter, born in 1940]

24. Chuck Close
• Almost all of Close’s work is based on the use of a grid as an
underlying basis for the representation of an image.
Leslie 1986
Created with his own ink
fingerprints!

26. • Photorealism--A style of painting in which an image is
created in such exact detail that it looks like a
photograph; uses everyday subject matter, and often is
larger than life

27. What is
Photorealism?
• Photorealism or Superrealism. In this style, artists in the
early 1970s created a link between representational
systems of painting and photography.

28. • Photorealists frequently used a grid technique to
enlarge a photograph and reduce each square to
formal elements of design. Each grid was its own
little work of art.

31. •Think about other self-portraits you have seen.
•How is Close's painting like or different from the
other two self-portraits?
Text
Frida Kahlo-
Rembrandt Chuck Close
Self Portrait

32. • One difference is that Close worked from a photograph
while the other artists may have looked in a mirror.
How are the “personalities” of these drawings different
from Rembrandt and Kahlo’s portraits?
Chuck Close,
Chuck Close, Kiki 1993 Self-Portrait 2007

33. • Big Self-Portrait, in black and
white, was the first of Close's
mural-sized works painted from
photographs.
• This painting took four months to
complete.

34. Why did Close’s
style change?
Detail of Kiki
• Close experienced a tragedy that subsequently influenced
his painting style. In 1988, he had a spinal blood clot,
which left him a quadriplegic, unable to move either his
legs or his arms.
• With a paint brush clamped between his teeth, he
developed a new way to paint. His portraits, the photos,
and canvases were gridded off by assistants and then he
used his mouth brush to paint, using the techniques of
grisaille and pointillism within the grids

35. Last Year’s Students...
Alison Lander, Class of 2015
-Portrait of her sister.

36. • Bobby Romero,
Class of 2015
• His taekwondo instructor.
• He gave it to him as a gift
for his birthday.
• This was more difficult
because of the hands and
background.

37. • Carmela
Paredes
• Class of 2015
• Portrait of her
parents.

38. • MORE STUDENT EXAMPLES FROM LAST YEAR!
Anne Marie Tran’s, ‘2015 Ashwin Narkar, ‘2015
Ngoc Nguyen, ‘2015 Maria Diaz, ‘2015

39. Using the grid to shade
a posterized image.

40. Different levels of posterizing

41. • Once you find your photo, you will have to
open Photoshop and posterize your image.
Step 2:
Change to
black & white
Step 1: Find Photo Step 2:
*Must be original! Posterize in Photoshop.
Level 6 or above!
NO photos from google
images or copyrighted!

42. STEP 4: USING THE GRID!
Grid off in 1/2” 1 inch squares on
squares and number your drawing paper!
on your printed photo!
Printed Picture 8.5 x11in Drawing paper: 17 x 22inches

43. The Project:
Who do you “respect”?
• parent?
• friend?
• yourself?
• coach?
• teacher?
• relative? Libby Wailin, 2013’
Her mother and her.

44. *Find an ORIGINAL photo you have taken of the
person and have it ready for next class!
Julian Leus, 2015’ Veronica Mora, ‘2015
Her Friend
His cousin