Year 4 - Art and design
Add tone to your sleeping portrait
Dream portraits: drawing and digital design
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Unit Summary
This unit explores how dreams have inspired artists, especially the Surrealists. Pupils will illustrate a piece of dream text, then learn how to draw and shade a sleeping portrait, before transforming it into a digital design.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create tone and shadow with a variety of materials to show that a figure is three dimensional.
Key Notes
- Heavy or light pressure is used to achieve different tones with a pencil.
- We can also show tone by using hatching and cross hatching.
- The side of the object nearest to the light source will be drawn with lighter tones.
- The side of the object furthest away from the light source will show darker tones and shadows.
- By using shadow, tone and line we can show that something is a three-dimensional form.
Vocabulary To Learn
- tone: how light or dark something is
- pressure: how heavily or lightly a drawing tool is being used
- shadow: the area of darkness where the object or figure rests on a surface
- light source: where the main source of light is coming from
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Shadow appears all around the object in a single, dark tone. Pupils may also draw shadows as a solid, dark shape.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Heavy or light pressure is used to achieve different tones with a pencil. We can also show tone by using hatching and cross hatching.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'tone'
how light or dark something is.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Shadow appears all around the object in a single, dark tone. Pupils may also draw shadows as a solid, dark shape. Correction: Ask pupils to draw an arrow to show where the light is coming from. Remind pupils to look carefully at their object and consider where the shadow is darkest and where the shadow fades.
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