How can we bring our drawings to life?

Key Stage 1

Art and design

Drawing

﻿Hello and welcome back to your next lesson for art. We've had lesson number one, had lesson number two we've had lesson number three. So today would be lesson number four. Correct. So our lesson four on drawing today is How can we make our drawings come to life? So we're going to be learning lots of different tips and tricks to make your drawing look like they're coming out of the paper. Okay? Let's have a look at what's equipment you're going to need for today's lesson. As always we're going to need some paper preferably some-off white paper so a creamy colour, if you have it or light coloured sugar paper would be great. If you only have white A4 paper or your sketchbook, that is fine. You're also going to need a light source, so a torch or a lamp if you have one, and finally you're going to need some drawing materials. You're going to need a one piece of white chalk or really liked coloured chalk or soft pastel. And one piece of charcoal. If you do not have Charcoal with you then one dark soft pastel or dark chalk will be just fine. Please pause now to go and get this equipment if you don't have it in front of you and press play when you're ready to carry on. Now you have all of your equipment ready and in front of you. Let's have a look of what we're doing today. Firstly, we're going to recap what we did last lesson then as always, we're going to warm up with a fun and quick drawing. After that we're going to be observing and observing means to look and notice. So we're going to look and notice how artists use tone and shading to bring their drawings to life. After that, we will be exploring the properties of chalk and charcoal. And finally, we're going to complete your own drawing with shading and tonal value. Before we recap what we did last lesson let's have a look at our star words for today. Remember, I say it then you say it. Tone 2D. Shading. Light source. And last one 3D. Okay, and now we're going to need to do a little bit of thinking and remembering back to our last lesson on shadows. And I want you to ask or just think about this question. What does the word tone mean when we're talking about colour? What does the word tone mean? Does it mean how dark or light the colour is? So the shade and the tint of the colour. Or does it mean how bright and vivid the colour is? Did you say how dark or light the colour is? Well done. Tone does mean how dark or light a colour is. Are you ready for the next recap question? Fantastic. This one is a true or false question. So you have to listen to the statement and see if you think that it's true or false. So listen fast, "pushing harder with a pencil, a pastel or piece of charcoal will create a darker tone?" I'll read it one more time, "pushing harder with a pencil, a pastel or piece of charcoal will create a darker tone?" Is this true or false? Do you think it is false? Can you point to the green rectangle. And if you think it is true point to the blue. Did you say true? Well done. Okay, it's time for our drawing warm up now. And for today's drawing warm up you're going to be drawing a picture of your favourite toy. Do you have a favourite toy? Can you tell me what your favourite toy is right now and start the sentence with, my favourite toy is... Thank you for sharing. Now you don't need to go and get your favourite toy, you just need to be thinking about it and picturing what it looks like. To complete your drawing of your toy that is a catch. You only have 30 seconds to complete your drawing. So if you have a friend or family member with you today and they can count you down 30 seconds or maybe you have something where you can put the time run, that will be great. You need only a pencil or a pen and a piece of paper to complete your drawing and it has to be as quick as possible because you want to get it finished in 30 seconds. Are you ready? Pause when you're ready to start your drawing warm up and press play when you're ready to carry on. I hope you had fun with your quick 30 seconds warm up drawing but I would like you to put that piece of paper or your sketchbook to the side just for the moment we don't need that anymore. And I want to ask you do you remember the title for this lesson? The title for this lesson is, How can we bring our drawings to life? And before I start to tell you all the tips and tricks that artists use, we need to talk a little bit about maths. Don't worry, we're not actually going to do any maths or working out, but there are two mathematical words that you might have recognised in our star words that we need to remember today. Can you think back to our star words and think what words could they be? 2D and 3D are the words we need to remember for today. Can you find the word 2D on this page and point to it now. Did you point here? Well done. The next one should be easy. Can you point to where the word 3D is on the page? Here it is. Now, I'm sure you are super duper at maths. And I bet you can point to where the 2D shapes are on this page. Can you do that now? Fantastic. It's these ones, isn't it? How would you describe a 2D shape to me? Start your sentence with "A 2D shape is..." We can describe a 2D shape as a shape that appears flat or two dimensional. Can you now point to where the 3D shapes are on this page? Here they are. How would you describe a 3D shape to somebody? Start your sentence with, "a 3D shape is..." Great job. A 3D shape doesn't appear flat and we can describe it by saying it's as three dimensional. Now you might be thinking, well why are we talking about maths in art? But that is the cause when we are drawing on a piece of paper most of the time we are drawing 2D shapes, like these and like 2D shapes these drawings look flat, but as an artist we could also make our drawings look 3D. We can make them look like they're coming out of the paper like this. So how can we do this? Well, when drawing a picture of something artists use tone. Do you remember what tone means? Tone means how light or dark a colour is. So artists use different light and dark tones of a colour to add an illusion. So to make you think something looks like, like it's 3D. Here is a simple 2D drawing by an artist. Can you guess will the drawing is off. You're correct, it's an egg in an egg cup. Now here is the same drawing with a have a look for a minute. What is it with? With a shadow, isn't it? Just like you were drawing last lesson. Using tone to draw dark shadows can help the drawing begin to look 3D. Here is one more drawing, look at all three pictures. Which drawing do you think looks the most 3D? So it looks like it's coming out of the paper the most? the last one, right? That's probably because the artist has added shading. Can you say shading? Can you say it loud? Can you say quietly? Fantastic. I think shading or shade is changing tone of colour from lighter to darker in different areas of the drawing but the lights might not be getting to it. In this picture, the last one, the artist has drawn as if the light is coming from this direction. So that darker tones and shading is on the other side of the egg and cup. Okay now that was quite a lot of information for you to take in, but let's see if you were listening and can answer two recap questions. Sitting up, are you ready? Fantastic. First question, can you identify so that means, can you spot the 3D drawing? With your finger can you you point to the drawing that you think is the 3D drawing. Three, two, one. Did you point to this drawing? Well done. This is by far the 3D drawing. The other one looks very flat, so that one looks like the 2D drawing and this one has an illusion so it looks like it has stepped it looks like it's coming out of the paper and is 3D. Okay. Second question. What are two ways we can make a 2D drawing look 3D? So listen, you're going to have four answers and you have to tell me two. What are two ways we can make a 2D drawing look 3D? Is it by adding shadows? Is it by cutting the picture out? Is it by using lots of colour? And is it by including some shading? What are two ways we can make a 2D drawing look 3D? Is it by adding shadows? Cutting the picture out? Using lots of colour? Or including some shading? Tell me now, what two answers do you think are correct? Did you say adding shadows? Well done. And did you say including some shading? Fantastic. Right, you've definitely been listening. We're going to look at another drawing now. Well, this is a painting. This painting was painted over 200 years ago before people had lights and electricity in their homes. It was painted by an artist called Joseph Wright of Darby. It's called an experiment on a bed in the air pump. It's a painting of an experiment on a bed and it looks like members of the family and maybe friends are watching it happen. Take a few seconds to look at the painting now and see what's happening. Now tell me, do you think it is nighttime or daytime in this painting? Can you explain why you think that? It must be nighttime because if we look over here, we can see a window and just beyond that window, what's that? Did you say a moon? Yes. And we can see everywhere around this painting it's very, very dark and there's lots of dark tones which show us that it's nighttime. Take another look now. And point to an area of the painting that you think light is coming from. So point to me where you think the light source is. Most of the light appears to be coming from the middle of the table here, perhaps from a candle. Can you point to one of the dark spots of this painting? And now can you point to a part of this painting that is both light and dark? So maybe point to a face that has some light and dark tones on it. If you pointed to nearly any of these faces we can see some light and dark tones on moon can we? On this little girl's face we've got really light tones over here and on the other side of her face where the light is not hitting it, it's a lot darker. For your next activity, I want you to practise using one piece of chalk and one piece of chocolate. The reason I'm asking you to do this is because we are to use these two drawing materials in our next drawing activity. So I want you to feel confident using them. So you're going to need one piece of scrap paper or a piece of plain paper, it doesn't need to be in your sketchbook. You're also going to need one piece of chalk and one piece of charcoal. If you don't have charcoal, you can just use a dark piece of chalk or soft pastel. That will be fine. Once you've got both your drawing materials ready and your paper ready, then I would like you to test out the following marks. Can you try doing the darkest and lightest marks, the thinnest and thickest marks and the longest and shortest marks. Don't make any shapes or any particular drawings, just experimenting with the chalk and the charcoal, making marks on the paper. Press pause when you're ready to start the activity and press play when you're ready to carry on. For your main activity in today's lesson, I'm going to ask you to draw your very own 3D drawing. So a drawing that looks like it's coming out of the paper like this Today, this you're going to need a simple object. Something like an egg, which we saw earlier in the lesson or a piece of fruit. Do not choose anything complicated like a toy because it will probably take much longer to draw and I want you to concentrate on shading with time today. If you are choosing something like a ball try to use one that is just one colour as this will be much easier when you begin to add your shading. The same goes for any object you choose, Whether is a ball or something like a mug you want it to preferably be plain without any pattern, just one colour all over. Once you've chosen an object you're going to want to get your light source ready and in a position to shine light onto your object. You might want to use a box or something to help hold it in place. Ask an adult to help you if you're using a lamp or any other lights other than a torch. Now that you have your object and the night source in place, is time to sketch your object. Is best to use a charcoal or pencil and only press lightly when you're first sketching out your object. When you have your object sketched out and you're happy with it, it's time to start your shading. So you should look at your objects and think what is the darkest place and use your charcoal or if you don't have charcoal, your really dark piece of chalk or soft pastel to start to draw and shade in those areas. Even try putting your charcoal or your soft pastel down like this and try this rubbing effect to see the different tones you get. I forgot to say it before but if you have a darker tone of paper so maybe a sugar paper colour where it's not completely white or a light pastel colour like pink or blue it would be better to use than white because if you're using a white piece of chalk you're not going to see it very much on the paper. For this video, I'm just going to use a darker colour so a peach, just so you can see it on the video. Now I'm going to start shading in my lighter areas of the objects so where I can see the light is shining. And when I get closer to the darker parts of the object I'm going to use my finger, a clean finger to start to smudge the two colours together and that will help blend them. Pause the video now to start your drawing activity and press play when you've finished. Now you've finished your first 3D drawing. I want to take the end of the lesson to just reflect on what you've done today. Okay? So with your drawing in front of you whether that's in our sketchbook or on your piece of paper I want you to just take a moment now to look at your drawing, really look at it and think of one thing that you really like about your drawing. And if there isn't one thing that you really like about drawing, your drawing then maybe it's one thing that you're proud of that you did today. It might be that today was the first time you've tried to shade or today was the first day you've ever used chalk and charcoal. So just take a moment now to look at your drawing and think what that one thing is you either really like or that you're really proud of. Can you tell me now what that one thing is? Thank you for sharing. I've got one more reflection for you to make and that is looking at your drawing and thinking about when you were drawing is there anything you would do differently next time or maybe something you would change? Maybe the object you drew was a little bit too complicated or maybe you would like to choose a different drawing material. Maybe the one you chose didn't come out the way you wanted it to. Can you spend a moment now just to think is there one thing you would change or do differently next time? Can you tell me now, what that one thing is? Fantastic. And now that brings us to the end of the lesson. I really hope you enjoyed your first lesson on 3D drawing with shading and tone. And I can't wait to see you next time. Okay? Bye bye.

How can we bring our drawings to life?

How can we bring our drawings to life?

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