How To Draw Metal With Colored Pencils

My lesson this past calendar week was to have my students draw objects in different metals; shiny silverish, copper and atomic number 26. Most of my students in this session are new to colored pencil then it was not simply a claiming for them but also for me.

I depict and sympathise which colors I choose and how I layer pencils but sometimes it tin can be difficult to enunciate to students. Anybody sees color and value/tone differently, new students don't always see every detail of the subject area they are drawing and I often aid with the correct angle or perspective.

This was our fourth class in the series and this week one of my students said she is beginning to notice things she never noticed earlier. For instance, when she looked outside she noticed cast shadows from sunlight and moonlight. She also began to discover different colors and shades/tones of color. This excited me considering I feel that I am succeeding in education not simply to return subjects but to actually study and see characteristics and relationships to surround.

These photos are sketches I did for the grade trying to simplify drawing metal. I chose the spoon as a quick study and (hopefully) piece of cake fashion for my students to sympathize reflections and different values/tones in metal. I started with an outline and denoted shapes where the light was reflecting. My photo shows more than white reflected areas than I was actually seeing.

Leaving the reflected highlights the white of the paper, I drew the different values using Prismacolor Warm Greys #30, #50, #70 and blackness. I shaded the spoon in gradual transitions from light to nighttime. I added some contour line on the edges of the spoon only careful not to outline whole shapes, just varying my pressure level so lines are more prevalent in some areas and softer or fading away in others.

In my last drawing below, I burnished with a bristle castor to remove the texture of the paper and added a few more darks where needed.

Here are some examples of educatee work. I also permit students cull the color of paper to work use for a background. I was and then busy helping students achieve their goals that I just got iii photos at the end of class. I was really pleased that each pupil chose a metal object that was challenging!