Shattered Image Drawing

• 1) Choose an object that is interesting or important to you. If it is a photo, and you want to enlarge it precisely, make a grid of½” squares over it.

• 2) Make a grid, proportional but larger (with 1” or 1.5” squared) on the white drawing paper.

• 3) Now make a LINE or CONTOUR DRAWING of your object in the grid or by free-handing it. No shading. Then erase the grid squares if you used a grid.

• TIP: Don’t choose something too simple or too complicated.

Examples of contour drawings

Picasso portrait of Igor Stravinsky

• 4) Now choose a pattern to overlay over your object. Try to make it relate to the object. (example: a hot air balloon with a cloud pattern over it.

• 5) Lightly draw the pattern over the whole page. Make the pieces or pattern touch. You can use a stencil. You can also draw straight or curvy lines over your contour drawing to create shapes.

6) Time to start shading: – Get a 4B or 6B pencil

• If not use a 2B, not a mechanical pencil

• In each shape you will choose a dark side and a light side and create a gradation from one to the next- so that each shape has a dark and light side.

• The adjacent shape (the shape next to it) should have dark next to the light of the first shape, and all shapes will alternate light-dark. Whenever you reach a line, change value. Light next to dark and dark next to light. The original lines will “disappear” into changes in value.

EXAMPLES of student

work