SLEEPING KOALAS - White on black drawing

Love the visual impact of using white charcoal pencil on a black background. This is my sample artwork to show the kids. I will show them other sample drawings as well.....

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Discussion is had with students about the artwork samples. What is TONE? What is TEXTURE? How is TONE created? How is TEXTURE created?
2. Students are issued with a sheet of black drawing paper, a RESOURCE IMAGE sheet which has 4 images of sleeping koalas and a white charcoal pencil. A white watercolour pencil can be used as a substitute for white charcoal.

 

3. On the black paper, students LIGHTLY sketch up the sleeping koala as a line drawing. Students are encouraged to recognise the resource image as a guide and should not attempt to recreate an exact copy. Assistance should be given in helping students with their drawing of the resource image.
NOTE: Students need to draw BIG as this makes the task much easier and they are better able to get the proportions of the resource image more accurately.
4. On the back of their black paper, students practise drawing with the white charcoal and experiment with ways of creating tone and texture.
5. Students complete the drawing. Assistance should be given in helping students with their creation of texture and tone.
6. Students need to be encouraged to not deliberately smudge the charcoal with their fingers. Tone should be created through pressure applied and released with the pencil.

These are beautiful drawings......
Artist: Lesley Barrett
Media Used: Scratchboard.


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