REVERSE SHADING EXERCISE

7th Grade

After working in regular graphite pencil shading, students practiced working with reverse shading...working on black construction paper with white pencil. Middle school students tend to outline with the whilte pencil first so this is a good exercise for looking at the white highlights first and working around the black areas. We kept the theme non-objective at first to practice the value effect. Later we worked with a recognizable object. And...even later we began scratchboard as they now already understood the reverse shading with no outlines technique with this exercise.