Advanced Drawing and Painting  

Local Value

and Variations

Resources:

Examples:

• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3

The Assignment:

Complete a reference section in your sketchbook that illustrates Local Value and Variations as well as the differences between the two.

1. Create two "Local Value Models," an example of local value.
2. Modify one of the Local Value Models by adding "Variations" to create a "Variations Model."
3. Mount the Local Value/Variations models into your sketchbook or Art Journal.
4. Author your pages according to the directions.
5. Submit your work for assessment.

New Vocabulary

1. Local Value: Local value in drawing or painting refers to the essential value of an object’s or figure’s surface without the inclusion of any texture or lighting.  Local value is the value of an object or figure without any shadow pattern. 
2. Variations: The addition of Lighting and Texture across the surface of an object.

The Learning Goals:

• Students will learn to determine the underlying or average value of a shape in a drawing to develop control over the composition and the value range in their artwork.
• Students will learn that Variations are subordinate to Local value but necessary for adding a sense of realism to a work of art.

Creating the Local Value Model

1. Collect the following tools and materials:
   • Fashion Magazine
   • Scissors
   • Tracing Paper
   • Value Finder (9-Step Value Scale)
   • Ebony Design Pencil or a 6B pencil
   • Kneaded Eraser
   • 9"X12" sheet of newsprint paper
2. From the Fashion Magazine, select an image of a model that is wearing two different clothing items (shirt, pants) that are differing values (lightness or darkness not color) and cut the picture out with as little background as possible. This is your "Foundation Image."
• NOTE: The best images have these value right next to each other (eg.- shirt tucked into pants without a belt in between the two.)
3. Trace the outline or contour of the two items of clothing onto your tracing paper.
4. Using a light table or other source of light, trace the clothing contours twice onto the sheet of newsprint creating two separate drawings.
5. Identify the "average value" of each of the two articles of clothing and fill in the shapes of your drawings accordingly.
   • NOTE: When finished you should have two identical drawings on one sheet of newsprint. These drawing should be shaded (crosshatched) in to the exact value you identified with your Value Finder.

Creating the Variations Model

1. Collect the following tools and materials:
   • Foundation Image
   • Local Value Models
   • Ebony Design Pencil or a 6B pencil
   • Kneaded Eraser
2. Study your Foundation Image very closely. Notice in it the areas that exhibit Visual Texture and the light effects across the surface of the image.
3. Using your Ebony Design pencil and Kneaded Eraser, add the Visual Texture and the light effects you see in your Foundation Image to ONE of your two Local Value Models. This is now your "VAriations Model."

Mounting the Local Value/Variations models into your sketchbook:

(Always save a space at the top or along the side for a page title.)

1. Open your sketchbook to the next blank page.
2. If necessary, paint or prepare at least three pages for new information.
3. Arrange the magazine clipping you used for your Local Value and Variations and the tracing you made of the two major shapes from the clipping on the first page allowing some room for a caption next to each one. Glue them in place.
4. On the next page arrange the Local Value model you've drawn allowing some room for a caption next to it. Glue it in place.
5. On the third page arrange the Variations model you've drawn allowing some room for a caption next to it. Glue it in place.

Authoring the Local Value and Variations Page

1. Label the first page of this assignment along the top or at the side neatly with the title, “Local Value and Variations .”
2. On the first page of your Local Values and Variations section using colored pencils or pens, annotate the "average value" you found each item to be from your value finder (Use the value number from your scale) for each of the two major shapes on your model.
• 
3. Using relevant information from your notes or other sources and/or illustrations, complete the rest of the page.
4. On the second page of your Local Values and Variations section use colored pencils or pens, illustrate the "Local Value " you found from your value finder (Use the value number from your scale) for each of the two major shapes on your model. Then annotate it as on page 1.
• 
5. Using relevant information from your notes on Local 1value or other sources and/or illustrations, complete the rest of the page.
6. On the third page of your Local Values and Variations section use colored pencils or pens, illustrate the "Variations" you found in each of the two major shapes or articles of clothing.
• Indicate highlights and shadows
  • 
• Indicate any patterns or textures that may appear in your "Variations" drawing
7. Using relevant information from your notes on Variations or other sources and/or illustrations, complete the rest of the page.
8. Include two additional “facts” about these drawings (ex.: where they were drawn, what time of day it was, date, etc.)

Assignment Turn-in

• Using Google Drive or another .PDF Scanner App, create a .PDF of all pages included in this assignment
  • NOTE: This MUST include the Table of Contents that added during the Sketchbook Preparation assignment.
• Upload or save your .pdf file in your Google Drive Turn-In folder in the appropriate assignment subfolder if available.
• Rename this .pdf as follows:
  • <YourName>_<ProjectName>_<Assignment>.pdf
    • Example- JohnDoe_StillLifeProject_ProjectPreparationPage.PDF
    • NOTE- In Google Drive you do not need to add ".PDF" when you rename the file