The students will learn how to use value to shape a form on a 2-D surface by using the technique of gridding or reference lines as used during the Renaissance period. Drawings and paintings from the Renaissance period, especially those of Durer. Other drawing textbooks to help solidify the concept in a way that you understand it as a teacher. Explain to the students that even the greatest artists devised ways to help them get a drawing in proportion. They used drawings first to experiment with their subject before they went into a more detailed artwork.
Drawing is an essential part of every artist's creative abilities.
The drawing puts down in visual form a blueprint for a project to be done it also helps to put down guidelines for the artist to follow. The great artists of the Renaissance period developed a way to use grid lines to make their objects more proportioned. Describe and model gridding and how to create form by using correct value scales utilizing drawing pencils for the medium. This will show if they truly understand the value concept. Explain to them the importance of lining up the dots that they have put on the edge of their drawing and on the edge of their papers so the squares will be square.