Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Developing shading skills and drawing techniques to create botanical-inspired digital drawings.
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Unit 1: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Shade with a reasonable degree of accuracy and skill following the four shading rules.
- Use their observation skills to describe specific shapes, textures or patterns in objects.
- Use mark marking to show texture and details.
- Use simple shapes to sketch the basis of their drawing before using lines and marks to add detail and texture.
- Apply shading skills to show areas of light and dark (tone).
- Select appropriate tools to recreate elements of a drawing digitally.
- Apply line, shape and tone with digital tools.
- Save and present digital artwork.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 1: Drawing: Tone and texture
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: See like an artist
- To recognise how artists use shape in drawing.
Lesson 2: Shading
- To develop shading skills and explore how to blend tones.
Lesson 3: Take a closer look
- To use careful observation of shapes, colours, tones and textures to add detail to drawings.
Lesson 4: Imagination in bloom
- To use line, shape and tone in an imaginative drawing.
Lesson 5: Paper to pixels
- To explore digital art techniques to recreate drawings.
Key skills
Experiencing:
- E.01 Encounter, sense,
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Key vocabulary
artist
blend
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Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design S3: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
A display version of the unit vocabulary.