Task
Practise creating various values by creating your own value scale.
Practise creating various values by creating your own value scale.
What is culture?
Discuss what you know about culture already.
If you are not sure what culture means, look it up and read a couple definitions.
Try to list different cultures and what can be a part of different cultures
For this task you will briefly look at Japanese culture before creating your own Japanese mountain landscape.
Japan is well known for it's mountains, especially Mount Fuji.
Discuss what you know about culture already.
If you are not sure what culture means, look it up and read a couple definitions.
Try to list different cultures and what can be a part of different cultures
For this task you will briefly look at Japanese culture before creating your own Japanese mountain landscape.
Japan is well known for it's mountains, especially Mount Fuji.
Task: Japanese Mountain Value Drawing
You will need:
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- A3 cartridge paper
- Compass
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Scrap paper or printer paper
- Coloured pencils
- Black marker
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Criteria:
- Most of the mountains overlap each other, generally smaller mountains in the background
- The mountains at the back are lighter in value than the mountains in the front
- Value shown in each mountain, darker at the top gradually getting lighter towards the bottom
- The value has been created smoothly so that you can't see distinct sections of values
Steps:
1. On your A3 cartridge paper measure 29.5 on the longest edge, top and bottom.
2. Lightly draw a line to connect the dots and follow the line to cut
Your paper is now a square
3. Lightly draw diagonally from one corner to the other to form an X
This shows you the centre of the paper
4. Use you paper to gently indent the centre of the X then flip the paper over.
5. Place a pencil in your compass and open it.
6. Measure against a ruler to 9cm
7. Find the small centre indent and place the point of your compass and carefully draw a circle
8. On scrap paper tear a rough triangular or semi-circle shape into the paper
9. Do this three times, each on a different edge of the paper and each one a different size.
These are called stencils
Practise using your stencil on a scrap piece of paper.
10. Place down the stencil, hold down firmly with your one hand and gently shade with the other making it darker against the paper edge and lighter as you go down. Make sure you don’t make a straight line at the bottom, you can use an eraser if needed.
11. Practise layering your stencils to form mountains. The lighter values go at the back and darker values at the front
12. Once you feel confident arrange your mountains (stencils) in your circle, think about the arrangement of the mountains leaving space for details like a sun, tree or boat.
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Task 2
If you finish your Japanese mountain drawing, try this vivid and bright landscape of your choice.
If you finish your Japanese mountain drawing, try this vivid and bright landscape of your choice.
Values are the light and dark of a colour or hue. As you can see in the diagram below, tints are a hue made lighter while shades are a hue made darker. When you change a photograph to greyscale, you are removing the hues. Instead you are seeing the variation in the value of hues. If you are always using the same values your work can become stagnant and boring. That is why in art and design it is always important to mix colours and not use paint straight from the tub or colour wheel.