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What is Value?Posterized Portrait & Shading
Alyssa Suba ’16
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Value is...
• 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.
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Value Scale?
• 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.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QD0CUfL_pQ
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What is Shading?
1. Applying media more densely or with a darker shade for darker areas and less densely or with a lighter shade for lighter areas.
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So, how do you shade?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVptKJZzMAU
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Blending
• Gentle and gradual transition from one to the other.
• Using pencils properly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzg-9SsV-gE
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Using a blender
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPeXXJHAVg
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Drawing lips - Step by step
Draw lightly to start. Add darker shades as you progress.
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Drawing an eye - Step by step
Do not guess! Draw what you see!
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Drawing a nose
Use blending stump to smooth out pencil lines.
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How to draw the eye, nose and mouth: Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6RFCfp7d2Y
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Using a grid to drawhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvP9oUEGko
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Chuck Close[American Photorealist Painter, born in 1940]
Project 6: Drawing Portraits using pencil! - Photorealism -
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What is Photorealism?• Photorealism or Superrealism. In this style, artists in the
early 1970s created a link between representational systems of painting and photography.
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• 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
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•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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rRg2i3gMBI
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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 1986Created with his own ink
fingerprints!
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•Think about other self-portraits you have seen.
•How is Close's painting like or different from the other two self-portraits?
Frida Kahlo- Self Portrait
Rembrandt
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Chuck Close
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•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, Self-Portrait 2007Chuck Close, Kiki 1993
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• 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.
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• 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
Why did Close’s style change?
Detail of Kiki
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Student Examples...
Alison Lander, Class of 2015
-Portrait of her sister.
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• 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.
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• Carmela Paredes
• Class of 2015
• Portrait of her parents.
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• MORE STUDENT EXAMPLES FROM STUDENTS!
Anne Marie Tran’s, ‘2015 Ashwin Narkar, ‘2015
Ngoc Nguyen, ‘2015 Maria Diaz, ‘2015
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Using the grid to shadea posterized image.
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Different levels of posterizing
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• Once you find your photo, you will have to open Photoshop and posterize your image.
Step 1: Find Photo*Must be original!
NO photos from google images or copyrighted!
Step 2: Change to black & white
Step 2: Posterize in Photoshop.Level 6 or above!
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What to do with your Xerox portrait:
Printed Picture 8.5 x11in
Grid off in 1/2” squares and numberon your printed photo!
1 inch squares on your drawing paper!
Drawing paper: 17 x 22inches
STEP 4: USING THE GRID!
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The Project: Who has influenced your heart and mind?
• parent?
• friend?
• yourself?
• coach?
• teacher?
• relative? Libby Wailin, 2013’ Her mother and her.
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*Find an ORIGINAL photo you have taken of the person and have it ready for next class!
Julian Leus, 2015’His cousin
Veronica Mora, ‘2015Her Friend
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More student examples
Jacob Nagel ’16Tuesday, February 4, 14
Tiffany Lu ’16Alejandra Galeano ’16
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Amolak Sidhu ’16
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