{"id":35,"date":"2010-04-05T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-04-05T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T06:03:17","slug":"light-and-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/light-and-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"Light and shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I&#8217;ve learned about depicting objects using tone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work from light to dark, covering the whole image with each layer of tone.<\/li>\n<li>Use circular movements to apply pencil strokes, so that the direction of the strokes don&#8217;t interfere with the shading.<\/li>\n<li>The human brain is capable of filling in lots of information. There&#8217;s no need to use a line to define an edge when the viewer can imagine it.<\/li>\n<li>Squint! Let the shapes blur into each other and then work out what the main tones throughout the piece are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are my last three homework pieces, all focused on practising the correct application of tone:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39\" title=\"Tone Homework 1\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone1-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Tone Homework 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone1.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A polystyrene ball and toilet paper roll. Glamorous stuff.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Quite a light application overall, but the shapes are still readable (though my camera might try to convince you otherwise). It was a bit light in the room when I did this one, but it might have been that I was using an HB pencil that resulted in the lightness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"Tone Homework 2\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Tone Homework 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tone2.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katamari, soap and mini-dish<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, my prototype Katamari was an excellent matte white object to draw. Part of me wishes that I composed this differently, with all the objects stuck to the Katamari, but I think this turned out really well. The Katamari was described as a &#8220;mutant tennis ball&#8221; during last week&#8217;s homework review, and other than the soap appearing to tilt upwards a bit (I wasn&#8217;t able to erase the pesky lines in the back corner), I got a good response for this one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/powerboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34\" title=\"Power!\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/powerboard-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"Power!\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/powerboard-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/powerboard.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powerboards in charcoal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I like the composition in this one. It has a little more narrative than random objects put together. The plug caused me lots of troubles and the sockets were no walk in the park either! After taking this photo I tweaked the far left shadow and the shape of the top power block. Taking a step back from things really helps to point out errors and inconsistencies. I&#8217;m eagerly waiting to hear my art teacher&#8217;s critique tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I&#8217;ve learned about depicting objects using tone: Work from light to dark, covering the whole image with each layer of tone. Use circular movements to apply pencil strokes, so that the direction of the strokes don&#8217;t interfere with the shading. The human brain is capable of filling in lots of information. There&#8217;s no &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/light-and-shade\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,28,29,8,22,324],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-35","6":"format-standard","7":"category-tone","8":"post_tag-acsa","9":"post_tag-black-and-white","10":"post_tag-charcoal","11":"post_tag-homework","12":"post_tag-katamari","13":"post_tag-tone"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}