Class Info

  • Date: Monday, October 7
  • Meeting Info: P125
  • Lecture: Download Link
  • Topics: Project 2 Critique, Intro to Project 3, Grayscale and Value

To-Do Before Class

  1. Project 2 is DUE:
    • Review the complete Project 2 Guidelines to make sure you have completed all phases of this project.
    • Take a well-lighted photo your finished inked composition and then protect it with tracing paper for safe keeping.
    • Post ALL of your Project 2 work. Follow the How to Post Your Work guide and include the project-specific details found under Project #2 Deliver. Remember to add the category Student Work > Project 2 Posts.
  2. We will look at your completed work during the critique next class.

Project 2 Critique

Let’s take a look at the completed Project 2 posts together and use the project vocabulary to describe the work. Specifically let’s observe the uses of shapes, lines, and textures.

  • When presenting your work, start with following: your name, the title and theme of the project, what you feel you did successfully, what you can improve on next time.
  • Your peers and the professor will provide supportive, constructive feedback.
  • You will have an opportunity to revise your work based on the feedback and improve your work and your grade.

Discussion: Grayscale, Value & Contrast

Value – Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color; indicates the quantity of light reflected.

Achromatic – Lack of color

Greyscale – An imagery made only of values, no color

Dorothea Lange
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks

All color has value. The value changes depending on the relative brightness or darkness of the color.

Blue is typically darker than yellow.
The brightness or darkness on the hue can change it’s value.

Something strange you should know about color | QUICK ESSENTIALS

Value Scale

Understanding PENCIL GRADES – What you NEED to know

BEGINNER’S Guide To GRAPHITE Pencils

Cath Riley
Edward Burne-Jones
john glover

Contrast

  • Narrow/Low Contrast; can lean lighter values or darker values
  • High Contrast or Broad Value range.
  • Contrast creates focal points of interest
Light Value Range
Darker Value Range
Board Value Range

To-Do After Class

  1. Choose and/or take 5 black and white animal photos. Find high quality images. Posterize the image you will use for Project 3.
  2. Take photos of your hand in the 3 value ranges shown above. Post to Openlab.

Materials needed for NEXT CLASS

  • sketch book (9″x12″)
  • graphite pencils (Venus or similar 6B, 2B, HB, 2H, 4H)
  • pencil sharpener (basic metal)
  • Tracing Paper
  • small box/container for your supplies (find or reuse)
  • Pigma Micron inking pens